Emperor of Bones

Modern Horizons 3 • #453 • rare

Creature — Skeleton Noble |

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Live Value $3.60

Foil Multiplier: 1.65x

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Emperor of Bones

Modern Horizons 3 • #453 • rare

Current Valuation

$3.6

30-Day Market Trend

Rarity

rare

Set Origin

MH3

Daily Shift

-1.37%

EDHREC Rank

#5,379

Mana Cost

Oracle Data

Card Type Creature — Skeleton Noble

Color Identity Black

Power / Toughness 2 / 2

🖋️ Curator's Notes

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.

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Official Judge Precedents

6 Precedents

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.

📜 Technical Attributes

Release Date: 2024-06-14

Set Name: Modern Horizons 3

Artist Reference: Josh Hass

Border Profile: black

✨ Variants & Finishes

Available Finishes Standard • Traditional Foil

Promo Status boosterfun