Emperor of Bones
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target card from a graveyard.
1: 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.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 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
If any permanent with a finality counter on it would go to a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it 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
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.
- 2024-06-07
Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
- 2024-06-07
If a creature somehow loses all of its +1/+1 counters, it can adapt again and get more +1/+1 counters.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Emperor of Bones, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Lord Zuko | 2 | 14 | 28.6% |
Colors it shows up in
- Mardu 2 decks
Every version of Emperor of Bones
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Extended Art
- Normal
- $4.04
- Foil
- $6.00
- Normal
- $1.64
- Foil
- $2.65
Promo
Modern Horizons 3 Promos
- Foil
- $4.93
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Emperor of Bones — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
