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Emperor of Bones
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USD foil $2.64
EUR €2.11
MTGO 0.18 tix

Emperor of Bones

{1}{B}

Creature — Skeleton Noble

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.

2 / 2

Adapt
Set
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3 #90)
Rarity
Rare
Mana value
2
Released
2024-06-14
Artist
Josh Hass
EDHREC rank
#5,344
Colour identity
{B}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.33
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2024-06-07

    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.

  • 2024-06-07

    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.

  • 2024-06-07

    If a creature somehow loses all of its +1/+1 counters, it can adapt again and get more +1/+1 counters.

  • 2024-06-07

    If any permanent with a finality counter on it would go to a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.

  • 2024-06-07

    Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.

  • 2024-06-07

    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.

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