Brilliant Ultimatum

set	min	mtgo
-	23.26	0.02 tix

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Name	Brilliant Ultimatum
Type	Sorcery
Description	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.
Flavor	Revealing the truth only deepened Tezzeret's curiosity for the secrets still buried.
Artist	Anthony Francisco
Set	Shards of Alara #159
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Brilliant Ultimatum

Brilliant Ultimatum, Sorcery, designed by Anthony Francisco first released in Oct, 2008 in the set Shards of Alara. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 23.26.

A control deck that focuses on card advantage and manipulation would benefit from using Brilliant Ultimatum, as it provides a way to potentially cast multiple spells for free. However, in competitive Magic: The Gathering, there are better options available such as Gifts Ungiven or Fact or Fiction which offer more consistent card advantage without the risk of exile. Brilliant Ultimatum could see play in more casual or fun-oriented decks where the randomness and excitement of the card's effect are valued over pure efficiency.

Rules

10/01/08

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.

10/01/08

The cards are exiled face up.

10/01/08

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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