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"Find me cards equivalent to: Brilliant Ultimatum"

Equivalent cards to Brilliant Ultimatum (Sorcery, colors: B, U, W) with similar effects or mechanics:
1. Sphinx's Revelation – (U, W) Draw cards, gain life. Not the same, but provides card advantage.
2. Dig Through Time – (U) Delve, look at top 7, pick
2. Good card selection; less interactive splitting.
3. Fact or Fiction – (U) Pile-splitting effect, instant, but not free casting.
4. Epic Experiment – (U, R) Exile, cast spells for free (requires deck building for color and effect).
5. Fain, the Broker – (B) Manipulates board/cards, but not splitting or free casting.

Closest in effect in Esper (B, U, W): Brilliant Ultimatum itself is unique in color and free-cast pile splitting. Fact or Fiction is the nearest functional analog, trading spell casting for card draw, and being mono-blue. There’s no direct Esper sorcery with identical effect.

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Brilliant Ultimatum

Dig Through Time

Epic Experiment

Fact or Fiction

Fain, the Broker

Sphinx's Revelation

Brilliant Ultimatum #159 Sorcery

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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 7
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • 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.
  • One of the piles may have zero cards in it if the opponent wishes.
  • The cards are exiled face up.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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    Cardkingdom / 3.99 USD 1.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 2.31 EUR 0.54 EUR
    Tcgplayer 1.44 USD / 7.04 USD
    Manapool 0.63 USD / 3.12 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    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.

    Dig Through Time #195 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 8
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Delve

    Rules

  • Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
  • Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
  • You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.

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    Tcgplayer 0.27 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.59 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket 0.2 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

    Epic Experiment #376 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Special
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If you can't cast a card, perhaps because there are no legal targets available, or if you choose not to cast it, it will be put into your graveyard.
  • If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.
  • When casting an instant or sorcery card this way, ignore timing restrictions based on the card's type. Other timing restrictions, such as "Cast [this card] only during combat," must be followed.
  • You cast the cards one at a time, choosing modes, targets, and so on. The last card you cast will be the first one to resolve.

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    Manapool / 2.79 USD 0.34 USD
    Cardmarket / 2.07 EUR 0.34 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.45 USD / 2.29 USD
    Cardkingdom / 3.99 USD 0.79 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Exile the top X cards of your library. You may cast instant and sorcery spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren't cast into your graveyard.

    Fact or Fiction #1995 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Piles may be empty.

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    Cardkingdom 2.99 USD / 3.49 USD
    Cardmarket / 5.51 EUR 4.8 EUR
    Manapool 2.09 USD / 2.95 USD
    Tcgplayer 2.36 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

    Fain, the Broker #133 Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 3/3
    Types:
  • Creature
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  • Human
  • Warlock
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    Normal
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    Treasure Inkling

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  • No entries

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    Manapool 1.56 USD
    Cardmarket 0.96 EUR
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    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    ,Sacrificea creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. , Remove acounterfrom a creature you control: Create a Treasure token. ,Sacrificean artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. : Untap Fain.

    Sphinx's Revelation #228 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2 v3
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • If the value chosen for X is larger than the number of cards left in your library, you'll lose the game the next time state-based actions are performed.

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    Manapool 0.45 USD / 0.61 USD
    Cardkingdom / 1.49 USD 1.29 USD
    Cardmarket 0.17 EUR / 0.64 EUR
    Tcgplayer 1.31 USD / 1.15 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    You gain X life and draw X cards.