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"Find me cards equivalent to: Emergent Ultimatum"

Equivalent cards to Emergent Ultimatum (Sorcery, BGU) are rare due to its unique search-and-cast mechanic, but here are similar multi-color, high-impact sorceries:
1. Brilliant Ultimatum (WUBRG) — Exile five cards, opponent splits, you play one set for free.
2. Violent Ultimatum (BRG) — Choose three permanents, destroy them.
3. Cruel Ultimatum (UBR) — Massive swing in resources.

None fully replicate the search three, opponent picks mechanic, but each is a multi-color, high-mana sorcery with a major effect, just like Emergent Ultimatum.

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Brilliant Ultimatum

Cruel Ultimatum

Emergent Ultimatum

Violent Ultimatum

Brilliant Ultimatum #159 Sorcery

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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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    Tcgplayer / 4.27 USD 1.55 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD / 2.99 USD
    Manapool / 2.31 USD 0.78 USD
    Cardmarket 0.55 EUR / 2.42 EUR

    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.

    Cruel Ultimatum #17 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 7
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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.)

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.9 USD
    Cardmarket 0.45 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD
    Manapool 0.43 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    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.

    Emergent Ultimatum #185p Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 7
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  • Sorcery
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    Rules

  • A monocolored card is exactly one of white, blue, black, red, or green and no other colors. A colorless card isn’t monocolored.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • If you find only one card, you’ll shuffle it into your library and exile Emergent Ultimatum without casting anything.
  • 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.

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    Manapool 1.01 USD / 1.14 USD
    Cardmarket 1.08 EUR / 1.22 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD / 0.79 USD
    Tcgplayer 1.35 USD / 1.04 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Search your library for up to three monocolored cards with different names and exile them. An opponent chooses one of those cards.Shufflethat card into your library. You may cast the other cards without paying their mana costs. Exile Emergent Ultimatum.

    Violent Ultimatum #206 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 7
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  • Sorcery
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  • You must target three different permanents. If some of the permanents become illegal targets before the spell resolves, Violent Ultimatum will still destroy the rest of them.

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    Tcgplayer / 3.41 USD 0.39 USD
    Cardmarket 0.19 EUR / 1.34 EUR
    Manapool / 1.28 USD 0.3 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.69 USD / 1.99 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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    Destroy three target permanents.