ultimatum mtg cards Genesis - Single Card You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand MtG Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

(2013-06-07) If all of the spell's targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen

A lot of equipment or aura-based decks use white, so having a cheap white creature with a form of built-in evasion can be useful even if it doesnt always pay off

Taxing your own spells by 2 mana just to force them through countermagic doesn't seem amazing, until it is

A source of reanimation right in the command zone makes the deck far more consistent, something that reanimation decks can struggle with since the core combo often requires three cards: a card worth reanimating, a way to put it in the graveyard, and a means of getting it back