Emperor of Bones
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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.
What it does
Tagged as Removal · +1/+1 counters — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Official 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. (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. (2024-06-07)
Printings & prices
Every set Emperor of Bones has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.
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