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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 (21)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (37)
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
- 1 Headliner Scarlett
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Cankerbloom
- 1 Tarmogoyf
- 1 Endurance
- 1 Fear of Missing Out
- 1 Gau, Feral Youth
- 1 Kraza, the Swarm as One
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
- 1 Grief
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 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 Elvish Mystic
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Molt Tender
- 1 Frenzied Baloth
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
Sorceries (6)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (36)
- 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 Karplusan Forest
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Llanowar Wastes
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 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 Starting Town
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (15)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (7)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (5)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (5)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (14)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (14)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
- 1 Narcomoeba
- 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered
- 1 Grief
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Griselbrand
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
- 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
- 1 Hoarding Broodlord
- 1 Agent of Treachery
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
- 1 Lord of Change
- 1 Summon: Bahamut
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Chart a Course
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Show and Tell
- 1 Stock Up
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Bone Shards
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Careful Study
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (15)
Lands (37)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Svyelunite Temple
- 10 Swamp
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
- 1 Narcomoeba
- 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered
- 1 Grief
- 1 Champion of Wits
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Griselbrand
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
- 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
- 1 Hoarding Broodlord
- 1 Agent of Treachery
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
- 1 Lord of Change
- 1 Summon: Bahamut
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Chart a Course
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Show and Tell
- 1 Stock Up
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Bone Shards
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Careful Study
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (14)
Lands (37)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Svyelunite Temple
- 10 Swamp
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (11)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (5)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
