Bonehoard

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Bonehoard: Artifact - Equipment, Neon Dynasty Commander. Living weapon. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{4}
Mana value
4
Type
Artifact - Equipment
Colour identity
Colourless
Rarity
Rare
Set
Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC)
Released
2022-02-18
Collector number
147
Artist
Chippy
Commander rank
5,002 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Equip, Living weapon

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About Bonehoard

Bonehoard is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC), a Commander product released in February 2022. It is collector number 147 in that set, with art by Chippy. It costs {4} (four generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 8 sets, from Mirrodin Besieged (2011) to Neon Dynasty Commander (2022). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.45 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Equip {2}

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.45 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Bonehoard by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PreDHLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Bonehoard

Bonehoard has been printed in 8 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC) #108Rare2020
The List (PLST) #CMA-211Rare2020
Commander Anthology (CMA) #211Rare2017
Commander 2016 (C16) #245Rare2016
Commander 2015 (C15) #245Rare2015
Commander 2014 (C14) #229Rare2014
Mirrodin Besieged (MBS) #100Rare2011

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Bonehoard, newest first.

  • If the living weapon trigger causes two Germs to be created (due to an effect such as that of Doubling Season), the Equipment becomes attached to one of them. The other will be put into your graveyard and subsequently cease to exist, unless another effect raises its toughness above 0.
  • If the Germ token is destroyed, the Equipment remains on the battlefield as with any other Equipment.
  • The Germ token enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature and the Equipment becomes attached to it before state-based actions would cause the token to die. Abilities that trigger as the token enters the battlefield see that a 0/0 creature entered the battlefield.
  • Like other Equipment, each Equipment with living weapon has an equip cost. You can pay this cost to attach an Equipment to another creature you control. Once the Germ token is no longer equipped, it will be put into your graveyard and subsequently cease to exist, unless another effect raises its toughness above 0.
  • The value of X is calculated continuously as the number of creature cards in graveyards changes.
  • If lethal damage is dealt simultaneously to the equipped creature and another creature, both creatures are put into the graveyard at the same time. The equipped creature won't get an additional bonus from the other creature.
  • If there are no creature cards in any graveyard when Bonehoard's living weapon ability resolves, the Germ will be 0/0 and put into its owner's graveyard.
  • Although creature tokens go to the graveyard before ceasing to exist, they never count as creature cards and won't increase the bonus granted by Bonehoard, however briefly.

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