- Brilliant Ultimatum
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Brilliant Ultimatum
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mana_cost
Types
Sorcery
types
Prices
Normal
Foil
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Near Mint
$2.41
$1.20
Lightly Played
$1.07
$0.89
Moderately Played
$0.98
$0.92
Heavily Played
$0.90
$0.75
Damaged
$0.74
$0.60
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Near Mint
$4.85
$4.79
Lightly Played
$5.03
$5.05
Moderately Played
$3.38
$5.15
Heavily Played
$2.68
$2.29
Damaged
N/A
$5.74
Details
Rules
Exile the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. You may play lands and cast spells from one of those piles. If you cast a spell this way, you cast it without paying its mana cost.
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Power
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Toughness
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Color Identity
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Rarity
Rare
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Number
159
number
Artist
Anthony Francisco
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Language
English
language
(EN)
language_code
Expansion
Shards of Alara
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Rulings
If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. You can pay additional costs, such as conspire costs and kicker costs.
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One of the piles may have zero cards in it if the opponent wishes.
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The cards are exiled face up.
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The cards in the pile that wasn’t chosen remain exiled. Likewise, any cards in the chosen pile that you can’t play or you choose not to play remain exiled.
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You can play a land card from the chosen pile only if it’s your turn (which it probably is, since Brilliant Ultimatum is a sorcery) and you haven’t yet played a land this turn. That means that if there are two lands in the chosen pile, you’ll be able to play a maximum of one of them.
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You play cards from the chosen pile as part of the resolution of Brilliant Ultimatum. You may play them in any order. Timing restrictions based on the card’s type (such as creature or sorcery) are ignored. Other play restrictions are not (such as “Cast [this card] only during combat”). You play all of the cards you like, putting land onto the battlefield and spells on the stack, then Brilliant Ultimatum finishes resolving and is put into your graveyard. The spells you cast this way will then resolve as normal, one at a time, in the opposite order that they were put on the stack.
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rulings
Revealing the truth only deepened Tezzeret's curiosity for the secrets still buried.
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Discussion
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Model attributes
id
string
The id of the card
ALA-159
name
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The name of the card
Brilliant Ultimatum
mana_cost
string
The cost to cast the card
{W}{W}{U}{U}{U}{B}{B}
types
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The types of card, such as Creature.
Sorcery
color_identity
string
The color identity of the card (the colors that appear on the card)
B, U, W
variants
object[]
The variants the card is available in, such as normal or foil, and their prices.
variants.name
string
The variant name, such as normal or foil
normal
variants.prices
object[]
The variant name, such as normal or coldFoil
rarity
string
The rarity of the card
Rare
number
string
The card number
159
artist
string
The artist of the card
Anthony Francisco
language
string
The language of the card, such as English.
English
language_code
string
The language code, such as EN.
EN
images
object[]
The images of the card
images.large
string
The large url of the image
https://images.scrydex.com/magicthegathering/ALA-159/large
expansion
object
The expansion the card belongs to
expansion.name
string
The name of the expansion
Shards of Alara
flavor_text
string
The flavor text of the card
Revealing the truth only deepened Tezzeret's curiosity for the secrets still buried.