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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
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (9)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Invoke Despair
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Instants (3)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (40)
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Haywire Mite
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Dark Confidant
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Marionette Apprentice
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Honest Rutstein
- 1 Cankerbloom
- 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
- 1 Springheart Nantuko
- 1 Tarmogoyf
- 1 Wall of Roots
- 1 Endurance
- 1 Eternal Witness
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Plague Engineer
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- 1 Skyfisher Spider
- 1 The Swarmweaver
- 1 Massacre Girl
- 1 Sowing Mycospawn
- 1 Thragtusk
- 1 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
- 1 Wight of the Reliquary
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
- 1 Arbor Elf
- 1 Birds of Paradise
- 1 Boreal Druid
- 1 Delighted Halfling
- 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
- 1 Elvish Mystic
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
- 1 Gilded Goose
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
- 1 Strangleroot Geist
Sorceries (7)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (40)
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Blooming Marsh
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkbore Pathway
- 1 Deathcap Glade
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 1 Forest
- 1 Forest
- 1 Forest
- 1 Forest
- 1 Forest
- 1 Forest
- 1 Forest
- 1 Khalni Garden
- 1 Llanowar Wastes
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mirrex
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Nurturing Peatland
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Pendelhaven
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Shifting Woodland
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Twilight Mire
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Woodland Cemetery
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
- 1 Headliner Scarlett
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Cankerbloom
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
- 1 Endurance
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Grief
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Undermountain Adventurer
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
- 1 Generous Ent
- 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 Gilded Goose
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
- 1 Mawloc
Sorceries (8)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Blooming Marsh
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Copperline Gorge
- 1 Cragcrown Pathway
- 1 Darkbore Pathway
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 1 Forest
- 1 Karplusan Forest
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Llanowar Wastes
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Pendelhaven
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (3)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (7)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (6)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
Instants (4)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Invoke Despair
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Subtlety
- 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Fear of Missing Out
- 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
- 1 Party Thrasher
- 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
- 1 Snapcaster Mage
- 1 Prized Amalgam
- 1 Poxwalkers
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Skyfire Phoenix
- 1 Hullbreacher
- 1 Fury
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Oliphaunt
- 1 Baleful Strix
- 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
Sorceries (7)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (36)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Ash Barrens
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Clearwater Pathway
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
