Inspired Ultimatum

The five-card Ultimatum cycle gave each three-color wedge a seven-drop with a punishing triple-pip anchor, and the Jeskai entry gathers three effects that don't obviously belong in the same spell. The lifegain is the odd tenant: five life to a target player reads like a control card's stabilizer, while the five damage and five cards read like the payoff for having already stabilized. What holds it together is that the whole package resolves at once for one card, so the life buys the turn that the burn and the refill spend. The damage clause rewards careful reading: it hits any target, so the same cast can finish an opponent, clear a blocker, or knock out a planeswalker, and the life goes to a player of your choice, which quietly includes an opponent when you need to feed a symmetrical effect or sidestep a life-total interaction. The drawing is the real engine, and unlike a pure card-draw spell it arrives bolted to a board-affecting swing, which is what makes the triple-red, double-white, double-blue commitment defensible rather than greedy. This is the wedge's statement of intent rendered as one sorcery: control that wins by refueling, aggression that keeps its life buffer, and removal that doubles as reach, all bought in a single payment.