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Shards of Alara (ALA | #159 | 2008-10-03)

Brilliant Ultimatum

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Sorcery
Artist: Anthony Francisco

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.

$1.68 cheapest print

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Set # Treatment Finish Price (USD)
Shards of Alara 159 Regular Nonfoil $1.68
Shards of Alara 159 Regular Foil $5.19

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Printings (1)

Brilliant Ultimatum — Shards of Alara
Shards of Alara
#159 Rare $1.68
Regular Nonfoil Foil
Anthony Francisco

Rulings

2008-10-01 wotc
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.
2008-10-01 wotc
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.
2008-10-01 wotc
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.
2008-10-01 wotc
The cards are exiled face up.
2008-10-01 wotc
One of the piles may have zero cards in it if the opponent wishes.
2008-10-01 wotc
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.

Format Legality

Tlr Not Legal
Standard Not Legal
Future Not Legal
Historic Not Legal
Timeless Not Legal
Gladiator Not Legal
Pioneer Not Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Pauper Not Legal
Vintage Legal
Penny Legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Standardbrawl Not Legal
Brawl Not Legal
Alchemy Not Legal
Paupercommander Not Legal
Duel Legal
Oldschool Not Legal
Premodern Not Legal
Predh Legal