Simian Spirit Guide
Planar Chaos (PLC) #122 · Common · Creature — Ape Spirit
Mana cost: {2}{R}
Exile this card from your hand: Add {R}.
"All my spells smell like burnt hair lately."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage
Power/toughness 2/2 · Illustrated by Dave DeVries · Released February 2, 2007
Prices
- Nonfoil: $3.77 USD · €1.42 EUR
- Foil: $147.26 USD · €31.34 EUR
Nonfoil price over the last 90 days: up $0.62 USD (19.7%) to $3.77 USD; low $2.73 USD, high $4.02 USD.
Printings
- The Zeta Set #189 (SLZ) · Common · 2026
- The Zeta Set #310 (SLZ) · Common · 2026
- The Zeta Set #68 (SLZ) · Common · 2026
- Mystery Booster 2 #61 (MB2) · Common · 2024 · $3.00 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #1548 (SLD) · Rare · 2024 · $41.48 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #1548★ (SLD) · Rare · 2024 · $109.11 USD foil
- Time Spiral Remastered #190 (TSR) · Common · 2021 · $2.80 USD
- The List #PLC-122 (PLST) · Common · 2020 · $3.80 USD
- Masters 25 #148 (A25) · Uncommon · 2018 · $3.58 USD
- Planar Chaos #122 (this printing) · Common · 2007 · $3.77 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Banned
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2021-03-19 · wotc — If a spell or ability's cost includes returning a creature to your hand and paying mana, you can't activate Simian Spirit Guide's mana ability after returning it to your hand. This is because mana abilities must be activated before you begin paying costs.
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