Genesis Ultimatum
Genesis Ultimatum: Sorcery, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. Look at the top five cards of your library. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {G}{G}{U}{U}{U}{R}{R}
- Mana value
- 7
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Blue, red and green (URG)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)
- Released
- 2020-04-24
- Collector number
- 189
- Artist
- Jason Rainville
- Commander rank
- 3,813 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Genesis Ultimatum
Genesis Ultimatum is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue, red and green sorcery from Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO), an expansion set released in April 2020. It is collector number 189 in that set, with art by Jason Rainville. It costs {G}{G}{U}{U}{U}{R}{R} (three blue, two red and two green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 7. Its colour identity is blue, red and green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (2020) to Marvel Super Heroes Commander (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.52 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Look at the top five cards of your library. Put any number of permanent cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest into your hand. Exile Genesis Ultimatum.
No human eyes have ever witnessed the birth of an apex monster.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.52 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Genesis Ultimatum by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Genesis Ultimatum
Genesis Ultimatum has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) #283 | Rare | 2026 |
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) #402 | Rare | 2026 |
| Special Guests (SPG) #106 | Mythic | 2025 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #80901 | Rare | 2020 |
| Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO) #336 | Rare | 2020 |
| Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos (PIKO) #189p | Rare | 2020 |
| Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos (PIKO) #189s | Rare | 2020 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Genesis Ultimatum, newest first.
- You can choose to not put any permanent cards onto the battlefield this way. You’ll put them into your hand without revealing them and without saying whether any of them were permanent cards.
- Any abilities that trigger as the permanents enter the battlefield this way won’t be put onto the stack until after Genesis Ultimatum has finished resolving and is in exile.
- An Aura being put onto the battlefield this way can’t enchant anything else that is being put onto the battlefield at the same time.
- If an Aura is put onto the battlefield without being cast, the Aura’s controller-to-be chooses what it will enchant as it enters the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn’t target anything (so it could be attached to an opponent’s permanent with hexproof, for example), but the Aura’s enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. If the Aura can’t legally be attached to anything, you can’t choose to put it onto the battlefield; in this case, it would be put into your hand along with any other cards that weren’t put onto the battlefield this way.
- Any abilities that trigger as the permanents enter the battlefield this way won't be put onto the stack until after Genesis Ultimatum has finished resolving and is in exile.
- If an Aura is put onto the battlefield without being cast, the Aura's controller-to-be chooses what it will enchant as it enters the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn't target anything (so it could be attached to an opponent's permanent with hexproof, for example), but the Aura's enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. If the Aura can't legally be attached to anything, it remains in its current zone.
- An Aura being put onto the battlefield this way can't enchant anything else that is being put onto the battlefield at the same time.
- You can choose to not put a permanent card onto the battlefield this way. You'll put it into your hand without revealing it and without saying whether it was a permanent card.
In these precons
Genesis Ultimatum is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.