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Okay, so today I'm going to talk about apes and monkeys.

So there are 48 cards in magic that are a creature type ape or monkey.

And so I'm going to talk about all of them.

So we'll begin.

The very first monkey in magic, or ape in magic, was curd ape.

So this is all the way back in Arabian Nights.

So curd ape cost a single red mana.

The original card was summon ape and it's creature type ape.

So the very first monkey was action ape and it was summoned a ape.

So, okay, so Kurt ape gains plus one plus two if you have any force in play.

So the idea is it's a one drop that's a one-one. But if you're, for example, if you play a taiga, which is both a mountain and a forest,

and you tap that for red to play curd-ape, the curateate becomes a two-three.

So curd-ape was actually very popular in early magic.

In some of the early beatdown decks.

It was one manna for a two, three was basically the best you could do back in the day.

And so Kurtap saw a bunch of play.

I think it's possible that Kurtape at one point even got banned.

I think for a little point in time, it's one of the few creatures that was, or I don't know if it was restricted or banned, but it was, in the early days, it actually, there's a period of time where we had to say you can't play with it.

Anyway, there's no ape, so this is Arabian Nights, there's no apes or monkeys in Alpha,

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