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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: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (6)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (33)
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Daze
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Fell the Profane
- 1 Snuff Out
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Misdirection
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Pyroblast
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Invert Polarity
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Logic Knot
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (34)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Clearwater Pathway
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Hammerheim
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 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 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Spirebluff Canal
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Sulfur Falls
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Timeless Dragon
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
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
- 1 Silent Clearing
- 2 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains
- 3 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Timeless Dragon
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
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
- 1 Silent Clearing
- 3 Snow-Covered Plains
- 4 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Dark Confidant
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Cankerbloom
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
- 1 Tarmogoyf
- 1 Endurance
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Grief
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- 1 Screaming Nemesis
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Undermountain Adventurer
- 1 Fury
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 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 Ignoble Hierarch
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
Sorceries (8)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (39)
- 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 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Forest
- 1 Karplusan Forest
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Mutavault
- 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 Mountain
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Woodland Cemetery
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (6)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Fallaji Archaeologist
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Grief
- 1 Spellseeker
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
- 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Hoarding Broodlord
- 1 Agent of Treachery
- 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
- 1 Lord of Change
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Priest of Fell Rites
Sorceries (15)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (7)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Adarkar Wastes
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Island
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Seachrome Coast
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Tomb Fortress
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Timeless Dragon
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
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
- 1 Silent Clearing
- 3 Snow-Covered Plains
- 4 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (6)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (35)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (4)
Lands (31)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (7)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
