EMPEROR OF BONES IS INSANE! THE BONE ZONE (Golgari Midrange Reanimator- Legacy MTG)

[@laurelkeeper]

I love when ThrabenU takes me to the-wait no-

[@ThrabenUniversity]

The comments on this video are going to be unhinged 😂

[@laurelkeeper]

@@ThrabenUniversitymad respect for all you do sir, love to see the sweet brews even when Legacy isn’t doing so hot. Here’s hoping for good bans!

[@duartelopes5223]

Too late!! Doot doot monstertrucker!

[@benlittle5543]

Don't hold back embrace the bone zone from Thrab-daddy

[@laurelkeeper]

@@benlittle5543 💀

[@t4m3goat]

"Mr. Bones I would like to get off your wild ride." "No."

[@dalemackenzie4320]

Emperor of Bones seems like a really neat card. At its very worst, it's a 2/2 with a smol combat trick that is also a bit of graveyard hate. At its best, as we saw here, it's a turn 3 atraxa while attacking for 11 while gaining 7 life while drawing 5-6 cards

[@cowsmoogo]

38:59 isn’t it better here to wasteland the thespian stage that was making a copy? The saga was sacrificing itself anyways, so getting rid of it doesn’t put them down a land.

[@thekevmeister77]

After a hard day of working in the bone zone, it's back to the bone yard for a refreshing night's sleep.

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

I feel like there is some deck with Soul Cauldron and Emperor of Bones that is just waiting for some crazy person to put it together.

[@drpibisback7680]

The return of Alex Steacy's Sheoldred commander deck: "I ain't sayin' she's a gravedigger, but she certainly... exiles creatures from the graveyard with... startling efficiency... it needs work."

[@luidgigiordano9480]

I am absolutely in love with Emperor of Bones. I dont care if it is good enough or not

[@GamiHQ]

ENTER THE BONE ZONE

[@takistsibris4325]

Emperor of bones plays fantasticly with ulamog the defiler..if we manage to exile ulamog under emperor and activate his ability,,ulamog enters with +10 counters(gets the amount from himself)with haste anihilator 10 and a victory!

[@the_enamelator]

It's the Bone Daddy.

[@nadavperry2267]

38:52 isn't wastelanding the thespian stage strictly better?

[@REWASDFGHJ]

Awesome video! I did some scryfall searching and thought of ideas. Entomb+Reanimate doesn't seem the best for Emperor. You're going from a combo plan to a midrange plan without having the right enablers. If you want to keep a combo/midrange feel, I'd add more looting effects to get rid of dead draws and find the other half of your A/B of binned monster vs reanimation. I think there is some consideration for +1 synergy: Hardened Scales & Green Ozolith if you go deep. Agatha's Soul Cauldron enables Emperor and is yard hate. Innkeeper's Talent lets any creature become a threat and synergizes with cards aside from Emp. Evolution Witness is the same 'cycle' and that might be a strong form of game ending card advantage with Talent/Cauldron. Imagine picking wastelands back up. Stocking the Pantry is another form of card advantage. Each +1 counter is effectively a clue. Vadmir, New Blood grows REAL quickly with Emperor of Bones and scales off any other +1 counter synergies you run. You can double dip with removal on your opponent's turn too. I think a creature plan backed by strong discard could get some value. I think going full BUG Counters with T1 Hardened Scales, T2 Psychic Frog can let you psychic frog REALLY hard. Retribution of the Ancients awesome sideboard tech for creature matchups. 1BB: Emperor reanimate and give a creature an opponent controls -2/-2 until end of turn. If you start the turn with counters that's 1BBB for -4/-4 repeatably. If you run more creatures that like counters Retribution becomes a removal machine gun that makes it impossible for them to win combat math. Benthic Biomancer, Basking Broodscale, Quirion Beastcaller and Scurry Oak are probably too cute/not strong enough. Oona's Blackguard can straight knock people out of the game with all the discard. Sarulf, Realm Eater is possibly a wrath trick you can consider with fetchlands/wastelands/removal I think there's a cool midrange counters deck here, it might be too weak for legacy but the pieces are almost all in Modern as well.

[@nubnub8202]

When I first saw emperor of bones my first thought was "I hope I see Phil use this soon". Thank you :)

[@fromheartfeltplaces_4627]

GOOD GRIEF, GOODBYE GRIEF. HELLO, BONE ZOOOOOOOONNNNNEEE!!

[@sorek__]

Phil finding new broken tech on banned card is very funny. Loved this Bone guy addition to reanimator.

[@TheMDGhost]

Another tech could be Ulamog, the Defiler cause IF exiled see himself so enter with 10 Counters! on Emperor! - AND/OR (sidetech) creation of avacyn means with ritual a potential T3 Ulamog with 10 Counters, able to win the game in one swing the turn after ;)

[@ArenaceousWave]

This video gave me a bon.... afide rush of joy.

[@benlittle5543]

The bone zone!!! I like it as much as "oiling up" cridders with oil counters.

[@sashabdreadful]

That first Bone Zone was the stuff of legends damn

[@jacksonkohls820]

This entire video is a case for banning grief

[@vincentvangoo7078]

I think Emperor of Bones might do well with some red splash? then you could also run Oliphaunt. Turn 1 cycle Oliphaunt. Turn 2 Emperor, turn 3 adapt, bring back Ouliphant, Ouliphant gives Emperor +2 and trample, swing for 12 trample damage. I think building this beck more as fair midrange and coincidentally have 2 high power cyclers to bring back could be pretty good. With turn 1 dark rit you could even both play EoB and cycle. Swinging for 12 on turn 2

[@julietkilotango]

1:26 "IT'S CERTAINLY NOT POLISHED."

[@kinosmead]

Controversial take: This deck could do great things with a Psychic Frog Even More Controversial Take: This deck could do great things with Return to Ravnica bomb *Lotleth Troll*

[@Hyenadont]

Id love to see this updated post ban, it looked so fun

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I expect that we will see the emperor again.

[@yakovdavidov7102]

Am I missing something but couldn’t Phil get a Voidwalker on board from under the BONE ZONE at 18:36 to blank entomb?

[@quincywilliams9860]

Throbbin'U and The Bone Zone~

[@jeromelim2928]

Love your content phil. Keep it up.

[@brushwagg7735]

With any luck we’ll see a thoroughly polished bone zone list as the meta adjusts

[@IeuroI]

🎶 HighWay To The Bonin' Zone 🎶 only way to make this better would be to put in the Maverick deck

[@zackpumpkinhead8882]

4:05 As a burn player I say *never.*

[@davidbeckbeef]

Get ready to tap your bone flute in the bone Zone

[@ReyaadawnMTG]

9:54 - Me, after the third date...

[@jonathanriebe8887]

39:00 was there a purpose to wasteland the urza's rather than the thespian stage that is attempting to copy?

[@ericbarr734]

I was about to make the same comment. I don't know why that was better

[@WrennNsix]

Hell yeah It’s time to get boned!

[@scottlatta5180]

It's cool seeing Bones making his way to Legacy.

[@assault410]

its funny cuz it rhymes and is like almost a sex thing

This deck needs an Ashaya to go wild with Bill

[@Exin]

38:54 isnt it more worth it to wasteland the thespian stage that is copying the saga instead of the saga itself or is this playing around something?

[@Dr._Kenneth_Noisewater]

Oh shit these are spooky scary

[@Shulwelld]

I have a very silly idea that would probably be bad but fun: Emperor of Bones + Broadside Bombardiers + landcyclers and try to go for a 14 damage throw off adapt+boast?

[@tuesday3477]

how do you feel about agathas soul cauldron here?

[@Eisenwulf666]

Highway to the Booooone zooone , riiiide into the boooone zone

[@AaronUpdike]

[11:15] is it feasible to board out both your big creatures in that matchup? Since your opponent is very dedicated to putting big creatures into the graveyard and your reanimates can target anyone you can just target their creatures, and not give them outs to use your big creatures against you. Since they seem pretty all in on the reanimation they can't do the same, unless they have quite the transformative sideboard.

[@LordOfCrabz]

MR BONES WILD RIDE!!!!

[@chriscortez4729]

How would you feel about the bone lord + troll in a totally mono black list ?

[@TheMDGhost]

I currently evolved the following decklists after your idea and some playtesting: 4 Emperor of Bones 4 Barrowgoyf 1 Archon of Cruelty 1 Titan of Industry 2 Generous Ent 4 Troll of Khazad-dûm 2 Boggart Trawler 4 Animate Dead 4 Dark Ritual 4 Fatal Push 4 Entomb 2 Bayou 4 Verdant Catacombs 2 Swamp 1 Forest 2 Underground Mortuary 3 Ancient Tomb 4 Polluted Delta 4 Reanimate 4 Thoughtseize 2 Null Rod 3 Undermountain Adventurer 3 Opposition Agent 2 Faerie Macabre 3 Abrupt Decay 2 Pick Your Poison Idea was to have the option to hardcast every card, get less blanks and surprise with green initiatve at side (which also comes with a strong mana push itself, letting you follow up with Trolls from hand etc.) Note that a deathtouch+lifelink goyf is really good to in the current meta,

[@alexrodriguez-jf9rp]

Worldly Tutor is sooo close to being playable as a psuedo entomb with a surveil land. Phil should make the deck worse for my sole viewing delight!

[@michaelsimeone9524]

Allllmost didn't catch the Naruto reference at 34:12 it was so quick and matter of fact.

[@samfaller]

I wonder if Power Conduit with Bones would be good? It can remove finality counters to add counters and trigger him again...

[@derekcline950]

I feel like I need an adult

[@jasonslade6259]

I wonder if Emperor of Bones would be good in a Agatha's Soul Cauldron shell.

[@niteus4907]

FREAKIN' BONIES!!

[@darken8649]

Hey Phil, if tou were to make this blue black with cantrips etc. Thknk of how good Profts Edict would be instead of bristly bill and inkeepers talent.

[@Playingwithproxies]

BBBBOOOONNNNNEEEE!!!

[@ReyaadawnMTG]

What is a skeleton's favorite snack?

[@michaelsimeone9524]

I dunno, what?

[@ReyaadawnMTG]

@@michaelsimeone9524 RIBS!!!!! SPARE RIBS!!!!!

[@michaelsimeone9524]

Shit, I feel like I should have seen this coming but that was a good one lmfao

[@sabersaurus7018]

Bristly Bill need more play, i cannot offload my bristly bill, please people play more bristly bill.

[@impendio]

Engagement

[@PsychicFrogBoi]

Making people feel grief after taking them to the bonezone is rude

[@GodpraisethePALANTINE]

THIS IS THE BONER POLICE! I’M TAKING YOU TO THE BONE ZOOOOOOONNNNNEEEE!

[@matthugenberg8869]

Restating this opinion: I feel like you should just restart the league if your round 1 opponent doesnt even show up. That round 1 is just not helping the content. Sure if its round 3 or 4, whatever, you sigh and move on. But round 1??? Just restart a new league and actually give us the full content we come here to watch.

[@Xam1da5]

Back to the bone zone with ye content creator, your tribute contained insufficient bones for our bone appetites

[@ThrabenUniversity]

As a reminder, leagues have a cost associated with them on MTGO. I am throwing away $10 to restart a league without completing it.

[@radradder]

Paraphasing video intro "Dealers choice donation list... so I wanted to use it grief people because no one would donate directly to see more grief" well once a scammer always a scammer. I think this grief ban might have also been a phil ban. Maybe you can grief people in vintage

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I mean, sure, you can overlook all the crazy deckbuilding here and sweet cards to focus on Grief... but it sort of seems like you totally missed the mark of what I was showcasing in this video. It certainly was not Grief.

[@shaunbarber2325]

Bro is yapping 💀