They are said to serve the Shadow Queen, who rules from the castle Dynnistad. Known as deathless riders, lich-knights, or fell horsemen, they ride skeletal war horses or nightmares. Undead human knights are known to patrol the outer Wilds far from the Realm. Large, durable skeletons are prized on Grixis, as most skeletons on the plane do not self-reassemble, but rather continue to sustain damage until they are unable to move, rejoining the heaps of scrap corpses that litter the plane. Most skeletons are human in origin, the puppeteered remains of ancient Vithians or their present-day descendants, but skeletons also exist that were once other species, such as rats, bats, wolves, viashino, ogres, minotaurs, and rarely, more massive creatures such as baloths, hellions, and dragons. When necromancers die or finally lose their grip on sanity, their skeleton minions are freed from service and roam Grixis, motivated only by an intrinsic hatred for life. The skeleton is the common foot soldier of the necromancer's army and personal retinue, but unbound skeletons can also be found.

Known Skeletons include Dragons, Dinosaurs, Crocodiles, Snakes, Trolls, Wurms and Walls.Īnywhere on Grixis, you can find the animated skeletons of the dead. This is shared with Zombie, Spirit, and Illusion as being both a race and a class. Most often Skeletons are of Human origin, but that subtype is never added. Skeletons were intertwined with the mechanical ability to keep coming back, originally closely associated with the ability Regeneration until its deprecation - now R&D tends to give them some kind of limited self reanimation. All multicolored Skeletons are also partially black, though Deathless Knight can be cast for all-green. Skeletons are, with a few exceptions, a mono- Black aligned 'race'. In Magic, the creature type is used for cards that depict the magically animated bones of deceased creatures.

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