Emperor of Bones
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Skeleton Noble
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 #90 (rare)
- Price
- $1.33 USD
At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target card from a graveyard.
{1}{B}: 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.
Emperor of Bones has 3 printings, first in Modern Horizons 3 (2024). EDHREC ranks it #5,430 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ketramose, the New Dawn decks (5,683 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Emperor of Bones most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ketramose, the New Dawn: 5,683 decks
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma: 1,800 decks
- Gisa, the Hellraiser: 1,108 decks
- Malfegor: 405 decks
- Ozox, the Clattering King: 318 decks
- Garland, Royal Kidnapper: 286 decks
- Skeleton Ship: 202 decks
- Spider-Man Noir: 135 decks
Often played with Emperor of Bones
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Finality counters aren't keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn't give any abilities to the permanent it's on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.
- : If any permanent with a finality counter on it would go to a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.
- : Finality counters don't stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner's hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.
- : You can always activate an ability that will cause a creature to adapt. As that ability resolves, if the creature has a +1/+1 counter on it for any reason, you simply won't put any +1/+1 counters on it.
- : Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
- : If a creature somehow loses all of its +1/+1 counters, it can adapt again and get more +1/+1 counters.