Rumbling Aftershocks
Enchantment
Whenever you cast a kicked spell, you may have this enchantment deal damage to any target equal to the number of times that spell was kicked.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Worldwake
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #29513
Rumbling Aftershocks turns every kicked spell into a free Lightning Bolt aimed at any target — stack enough kickers and you're dealing damage without touching combat. The five-mana enchantment asks a real commitment up front, but in a deck that kicks often, it pays for itself the turn it lands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Rumbling Aftershocks actually lives — the format's longer games give you time to recoup the five-mana investment, and kicker-tribal commanders like Hallar, the Firefletcher turn it into a repeatable burn engine with real closing power. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but completely unplayable; those formats don't run five-mana enchantments that require a kicker subtheme to function, full stop. Modern has faster, more resilient payoffs for spell-damage strategies, so Rumbling Aftershocks never makes the cut there either. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's pace and singleton construction that a dedicated kicker build could use it, but the card pool is narrower and the games shorter, making it a fringe inclusion at best.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Rumbling Aftershocks is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It sees enough Commander play in kicker decks that demand won't evaporate, but don't expect this to climb; the ceiling is firmly set by how niche the kicker archetype remains.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.