Emperor of Bones
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Modern Horizons 3MH3 · #90
- Card type
- Creature — Skeleton Noble
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 2.24 € · ★ 3.63 € · 1.73 $ · ★ 2.47 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card 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.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Josh Hass
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-06-14
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.
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.
If a creature somehow loses all of its +1/+1 counters, it can adapt again and get more +1/+1 counters.
If any permanent with a finality counter on it would go to a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.
Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
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.
