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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Cruel Ultimatum

Closest equivalents to Cruel Ultimatum (Grixis: blue, black, red) are:

  • Sphinx's Revelation (draw + life, not same colors)
  • Rakdos's Return (discard + damage, black/red)
  • Soul Manipulation (choose counter or recursion, blue/black)
  • Glorious End (red, but only exile control)
  • Deathreap Ritual (draw conditional, black/green)

However, nothing matches all effects and three-color (UBR) power of Cruel Ultimatum. It's nearly unique in card advantage, recursion, disruption, and life swing in Grixis colors.

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Cruel Ultimatum #17 Sorcery

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  • All of the actions for Cruel Ultimatum are performed sequentially, in the order listed. Earlier actions may affect how you perform later actions. For example, if the opponent sacrifices a creature that they control but you own, it will end up in your graveyard. When Cruel Ultimatum lets you return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, you can choose that one.
  • Cruel Ultimatum's only target is an opponent. You don't choose which creature card in your graveyard you'll return to your hand until Cruel Ultimatum resolves.
  • If, as Cruel Ultimatum begins to resolve, your opponent's life total is 5 or less and you have two or fewer cards in your library, the game will result in a draw. Your opponent's life total will drop to 0 or less, but Cruel Ultimatum must finish resolving completely before state-based actions are performed. You'll then be forced to draw three cards and fail to draw one. When state-based actions are finally performed, you and your opponent will both lose the game at the same time, which means the game is a draw.
  • If the target opponent is an illegal target as Cruel Ultimatum tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. (I'm not going to list them all here because it would just be disappointing to hear all of the things you won't get to do.)

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    Tcgplayer 1.01 USD
    Cardmarket 0.67 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.99 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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    Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

    Deathreap Ritual #250 Enchantment

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  • If a creature didn't die before a turn's end step begins, Deathreap Ritual's ability doesn't trigger at all. The creature may have died before Deathreap Ritual entered the battlefield, however.
  • You draw one card when the ability resolves, not one card per creature that died during the turn.

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    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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    Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

    Glorious End #133s Instant

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  • Any “at the beginning of the next end step” triggered abilities won’t get the chance to trigger that turn because the end step is skipped. Those abilities will trigger at the beginning of the end step of the next turn.
  • Ending the turn this way means the following things happen in order: 1) All spells and abilities on the stack are exiled. This includes spells and abilities that can’t be countered. 2) If there are any attacking and blocking creatures, they’re removed from combat. 3) State-based actions are checked. No player gets priority, and no triggered abilities are put onto the stack. 4) The current phase and/or step ends. The game skips straight to the cleanup step. 5) The cleanup step happens in its entirety.
  • If Glorious End’s delayed triggered ability is countered, it won’t trigger again. The same is true if it’s removed from the stack in any other way (such as by a second even more Glorious End) or if it resolves and you don’t lose the game (perhaps because of the emblem of Gideon of the Trials).
  • If any triggered abilities do trigger during this process, they’re put onto the stack during the cleanup step. If this happens, players will have a chance to cast spells and activate abilities, then there will be another cleanup step before the turn is over.
  • Though other spells and abilities that are exiled won’t get a chance to resolve, they don’t count as being countered.

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    Tcgplayer 3.58 USD
    Cardmarket 2.54 EUR

    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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    End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.) At the beginning of your next end step, you lose the game.

    Rakdos's Return #188 Sorcery

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  • The target opponent will discard X cards even if some or all of the damage dealt by Rakdos’s Return is prevented or redirected.

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    Tcgplayer 0.66 USD / 3.24 USD
    Cardmarket 0.74 EUR / 2.64 EUR
    Cardkingdom 1.29 USD
    Cardsphere 0.72 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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    Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

    Soul Manipulation #185 Instant

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  • If you choose both modes, you choose their targets at the same time. You can’t counter your own creature spell and then return that card from your graveyard to your hand.
  • You may choose just the first mode (targeting a creature spell), just the second mode (targeting a creature card in your graveyard), or both modes (targeting a creature spell and a creature card in your graveyard). You can’t choose a mode unless there’s a legal target for it.

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    Tcgplayer 0.2 USD / 0.7 USD
    Cardmarket 0.12 EUR / 0.56 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Cardsphere 0.25 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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    Choose one or both — •Countertarget creature spell. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

    Sphinx's Revelation #228 Instant

    Variations: v1 v2 v3

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    Converted Cost: 3
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  • 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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    Tcgplayer 0.96 USD / 1.1 USD
    Cardmarket 0.44 EUR / 0.67 EUR
    Cardsphere 0.86 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.

    Cruel Ultimatum Sorcery Normal - ~$0.89

    Deathreap Ritual Enchantment Normal

    Glorious End Instant Normal - ~$3.06

    Rakdos's Return Sorcery Normal - ~$1.55

    Soul Manipulation Instant Normal - ~$0.44

    Sphinx's Revelation Instant Normal - ~$0.81

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