Pair your apes with cards like Seedborn Muse, Eternal Witness, and Old-Growth Troll
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Not just that, rather than destroying them they are shuffled back into the Deck, the best form of removal in the game
This pairs with Bastion Protector, which gives your commanders +2/+2 and indestructible
Krovikan Horror has an effect that's been since discontinued, where it cares about the order of cards (notice that it says a summon/creature card directly above it) in your graveyard, something that's a bit difficult to keep track of in a real game
However, I do think this will effectively lock down most creatures in the set, and it isnt like if they have +1/+1 counters this goes away entirely anyway, because they have to keep removing counters from it to untap it