Printings
Emergent Ultimatum
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 7
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 185
Oracle Text
Search your library for up to three monocolored cards with different names and exile them. An opponent chooses one of those cards. Shuffle that card into your library. You may cast the other cards without paying their mana costs. Exile Emergent Ultimatum.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- April 4, 2025
If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
If you cast a spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
A monocolored card is exactly one of white, blue, black, red, or green and no other colors. A colorless card isn’t monocolored.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
If you wish to cast any exiled cards, you do so as part of the resolution of Emergent Ultimatum. You can’t wait to cast them later. Timing permissions based on a card’s type are ignored.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
If you find only one card, you’ll shuffle it into your library and exile Emergent Ultimatum without casting anything.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
Emergent Ultimatum is still on the stack while you cast the cards you found, so those spells could target it. However, once it’s exiled, it will no longer be a legal target.
Source: wotc
Price History
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