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◇ Catalog #159

Brilliant Ultimatum

ala·#159·rare·foil

Illus. Anthony Francisco

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Oct '08

18 yr ago

Value

$5.40+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $5.59 · low $5.09

NM$5.40

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$4.99–$5.70modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $5.40low $0.02range 26900.0%n 54

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #12,049 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$5.40

Nonfoil$1.49

Gameplay

Sorcery

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.

Revealing the truth only deepened Tezzeret's curiosity for the secrets still buried.

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 6

2008-10-01wotc

The cards are exiled face up.

2008-10-01wotc

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.

2008-10-01wotc

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.

2008-10-01

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $5.40. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.02 and $5.40 across 54 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from ALA — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #159 of *Shards of Alara*, the set that shipped alongside the October 2008 Shards of Alara release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity black/blue/white, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {W}{W}{U}{U}{U}{B}{B} (7 converted).

Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.

EDHrec ranks this card #12,049 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Anthony Francisco. Rarix catalogs 153 other cards credited to this artist.