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Emperor of Bones 
Creature — Skeleton Noble
Oracle Text
At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target card from a graveyard.
: Adapt 2.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, put a creature card exiled with this creature onto the battlefield under your control with a finality counter on it. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
: Adapt 2.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, put a creature card exiled with this creature onto the battlefield under your control with a finality counter on it. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.Format Legality
ModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Emperor of Bones, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern | 33 | 3 | 430 | 2.8 |
| Duel Commander | 3 | 1 | 210 | 1 |
| Legacy | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1.3 |
Details
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 2
- Collector #
- 453
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Emperor of Bones
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (16)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (33)
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Daze
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Remand
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Flame of Anor
- 1 Prismari Command
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Snuff Out
- 1 Murderous Cut
- 1 Pyrokinesis
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Terminate
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Tarfire
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Siphon Insight
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Logic Knot
Enchantments (1)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Cori Mountain Monastery
- 1 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seat of the Synod
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Sulfur Falls
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (35)
- 1 Bomat Courier
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Callous Sell-Sword
- 1 Dark Confidant
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
- 1 Marionette Apprentice
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Sunset Saboteur
- 1 Fear of Missing Out
- 1 Harmonic Prodigy
- 1 Loyal Apprentice
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
- 1 Warren Soultrader
- 1 Grief
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Skittering Precursor
- 1 Voldaren Thrillseeker
- 1 Fury
- 1 Greater Gargadon
- 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
- 1 Carrion Feeder
- 1 Cult Conscript
- 1 Forsaken Miner
- 1 Gravecrawler
- 1 Nethergoyf
- 1 Stalactite Stalker
- 1 Viscera Seer
- 1 Bloodtithe Harvester
- 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
- 1 Stadium Headliner
- 1 Voldaren Epicure
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Barbarian Ring
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Den of the Bugbear
- 1 Graven Cairns
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mount Doom
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
- 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (16)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (6)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Cathar Commando
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
- 1 Voice of Victory
- 1 Flickerwisp
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Solitude
Sorceries (15)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (38)
- 1 Abstergo Entertainment
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bleachbone Verge
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Brightclimb Pathway
- 1 Caves of Koilos
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Concealed Courtyard
- 1 Dust Bowl
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Fetid Heath
- 1 Flagstones of Trokair
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Shattered Sanctum
- 3 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 3 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (30)
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Abrade
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Flame of Anor
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Terminate
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Tarfire
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
Lands (37)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seat of the Synod
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
- 1 Haywire Mite
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
- 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
- 1 Night Clubber
- 1 Cankerbloom
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
- 1 Springheart Nantuko
- 1 Tower Winder
- 1 Endurance
- 1 Fear of Missing Out
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
- 1 Grief
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Wight of the Reliquary
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
- 1 Arbor Elf
- 1 Birds of Paradise
- 1 Delighted Halfling
- 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
- 1 Elvish Mystic
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Molt Tender
- 1 Frenzied Baloth
- 1 Mawloc
Sorceries (6)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Blooming Marsh
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commercial District
- 1 Copperline Gorge
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 1 Forest
- 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Llanowar Wastes
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wastewood Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Nethergoyf
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
- 1 Carnage Interpreter
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
- 1 Grief
- 1 Anje's Ravager
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- 1 Tersa Lightshatter
- 1 Fury
- 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
- 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
Sorceries (13)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (12)
Lands (37)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Barbarian Ring
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Den of the Bugbear
- 1 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Graven Cairns
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mount Doom
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
- 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Tectonic Edge
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (30)
- 1 Abrade
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Flame of Anor
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Terminate
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Tarfire
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
Lands (37)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seat of the Synod
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
