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
{4}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Worldwake
Price
$0.04
EDHREC rank
#29513
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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

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

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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