Emergent Ultimatum Price
6 printings · 4 sets · first printed 2020
Emergent Ultimatum has been printed 6 times across 4 sets, first in 2020 and most recently in 2025. Right now the cheapest printing is Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #185 at $0.39, while the most expensive is Special Guests #105 at $3.24 — about 8× more. The median across 5 priced printings is $1.37. Reprint risk: ELEVATED — Reprinted 6x total, including once in the last 2 years.
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Every Emergent Ultimatum Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #185 (R) Cheapest | 2020 | $0.39 | $0.25 |
| Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #333 (R) | 2020 | $1.30 | $0.72 |
| Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos #185p (R) | 2020 | $1.37 | $0.33 |
| Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos #185s (R) Foil | 2020 | $1.42 | $1.15 foil |
| Special Guests #105 (M) | 2025 | $3.24 | $1.80 |
| Magic Online Promos #80897 (R) | 2020 | — | — |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 6 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
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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.
A monocolored card is exactly one of white, blue, black, red, or green and no other colors. A colorless card isn’t monocolored.
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.
If you find only one card, you’ll shuffle it into your library and exile Emergent Ultimatum without casting anything.
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.