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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 | 211 | 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 (31)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
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Creatures (31)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
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Creatures (35)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (6)
Lands (17)
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4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (6)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
- 1 Headliner Scarlett
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
- 1 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
- 1 Cathar Commando
- 1 Containment Priest
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Bonecrusher Giant
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- 1 Synth Eradicator
- 1 Kutzil's Flanker
- 1 White Plume Adventurer
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Fury
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
- 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
- 1 Kelsien, the Plague
- 1 Esper Sentinel
Sorceries (12)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Castle Ardenvale
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Eiganjo Castle
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Elegant Parlor
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Plains
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Sacred Foundry
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Shattered Sanctum
- 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Spymaster's Vault
- 1 Sundown Pass
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Ledger Shredder
- 1 Sinister Concierge
- 1 Brazen Borrower
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
- 1 Vendilion Clique
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Chrome Host Seedshark
- 1 Trinket Mage
- 1 Ertai Resurrected
- 1 Subtlety
- 1 Harvester of Misery
- 1 Primaris Eliminator
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Baleful Strix
- 1 Psychic Frog
Sorceries (7)
Instants (29)
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Daze
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Fell the Profane
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Snuff Out
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Misdirection
- 1 Mystic Confluence
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Gollum's Bite
- 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 Mental Misstep
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (33)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Clearwater Pathway
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seat of the Synod
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 10 Snow-Covered Island
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (41)
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- 1 Haywire Mite
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Dark Confidant
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Glissa Sunslayer
- 1 Honest Rutstein
- 1 Cankerbloom
- 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
- 1 Mosswood Dreadknight
- 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 Skyfisher Spider
- 1 The Swarmweaver
- 1 Sentinel of the Nameless City
- 1 Massacre Girl
- 1 Sowing Mycospawn
- 1 Undermountain Adventurer
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 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 (7)
Lands (39)
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Blooming Marsh
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkbore Pathway
- 1 Deathcap Glade
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 5 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
- 3 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
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 3 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 2 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Aven Interrupter
- 2 Flickerwisp
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 3 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 4 Witch Enchanter
- 4 Solitude
- 1 Tidehollow Sculler
- 1 White Orchid Phantom
