Monkey Cage

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Monkey Cage

Artifact

When a creature enters the battlefield, sacrifice Monkey Cage and put into play a number of 2/2 green Ape creature tokens equal to that creature's converted mana cost.

Ziusdra on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

legendofa, Monkey Cage's original printing begs to differ


Pineal Gland

Artifact

When Pineal Gland enters the battlefield, draw a card.

: Shuffle up to five cards from your graveyard into your library. Activate only as a sorcery.

, sacrifice Pineal Gland: Shuffle your hand into your library, then draw two cards.


Descartes believed that the connection between thought and reality was sustained through a gland in the body which housed thought itself. I wanted to create a card that showed that organ in a jar (as Izzet do) and also helps my jeskai wheel deck not self-mill. A single spell that shuffles graveyard-to-library doesn't cut it... I need a permanent with the ability to repeat the effect. And I think I balaned it out well by restricting it to sorcery speed (so it can't be abused by other combo decks).

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Abaques on Infinite Combo for Monkey Cage?

2 years ago

Thanks for making me think about the joy of Monkey Cage again. I'd built my Daretti, Scrap Savant deck years ago and discovered Monkey Cage then, but I'd never figured out how to turn it into a real win-con. Well now I've got one: Scraptacular

1empyrean on Infinite Combo for Monkey Cage?

2 years ago

Mystic Reflection , Biblioplex Assistant , Bolas's Citadel to Massacar's combo and and you'll get tokens of whatever you want and cast spells that are in your graveyard by paying life.

This still doesn't need Monkey Cage to work, but it's a fun card with Goblin Welder , Thornbite Staff and a sac outlet.

Massacar on Infinite Combo for Monkey Cage?

2 years ago

Goblin Welder + Thornbite Staff + one of these two in grave and the other on the field Myr Battlesphere / Monkey Cage = M&M TOKENS!!!!! (Monkeys and Myr)

Myr etb's and creates handy sacrifice tokens you can use to recur the monkey cage. You can sac the myr and recur it to get both more myr and monkeys each time.

The cage is superfluous in this combo since you could use any other artifact as a part of it, but it would work and be amusing.

Abaques on Infinite Combo for Monkey Cage?

2 years ago

I think you can do it with Karn, Silver Golem + Nim Deathmantle + Mycosynth Lattice + Ashnod's Altar / Krark-Clan Ironworks + Metalwork Colossus + + mana.

With everything but the Colossus in play, use Karn, Silver Golem to make Monkey Cage a creature and equip Nim Deathmantle to it. Play Metalwork Colossus which will be free to cast. When sacking the cage pay the cost for Nim Deathmantle to bring back the cage. It will return but not be a creature so the Deahtmantle falls off. You'll get 11 monkeys. Sac Metalwork Colossus then sac 2 monkeys to return it to your hand. Use Karn to make the cage a creature again then sac 2 monkeys and equip the Deathmantle. Then play the Colossus again. Sac 2 monkeys to pay for the Deathmantle trigger to bring the cage back. Then loop as many times at you want. You should net 5 monkeys and mana each time through.

I think that's all right...

rshistorysmuf on Infinite Combo for Monkey Cage?

2 years ago

Sharuum the Hegemon + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar

Yes I can see this working but maybe with a Sculpting Steel or Copy Artifact , coupled with Cathodion and a Su-Chi (expensive) with a Junk Diver and a Scrap Trawler ?

However, with Metalwork Colossus because when the Monkey Cage enters and with Ashnod's Altar that is a total of 8 mana, then add in Nim Deathmantle Metalwork Colossus can be retuned to hand and cast for free, creating 11 Apes when sacking the Monkey Cage .

Think we are on to something here.

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