Violent Ultimatum

The seven-mana ultimatum cycle was built on a single, brutal premise: pay a punishing color-screen-or-bust mana cost, and get an effect with no rate-based ceiling. This is the cycle's destruction node, and it does what unconditional removal almost never gets to do at any cost: it ignores type entirely. Three target permanents, full stop. Lands, creatures, artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers, any combination, all dead at once. Most removal in the game is rationed by type because answering everything is exactly what design tries to avoid handing a single card; the ultimatum buys its way out of that rule with a casting cost that demands a heavily committed three-color manabase and zero help from generic mana. The double-black, triple-red, double-green requirement is the entire balancing act: a card that can blow up a board's three most important permanents in one sorcery should never be easy to cast, and this one is genuinely hard. There is no flexibility built in past the targeting, no flashback, no kicker, no upside if a target is gone. You pay the seven, you point at three things, and they cease to exist. The spell works only as a high-end haymaker, the play a grinding three-color midrange deck reaches for once it has already survived to the point where resolving it ends the conversation.