Horrible card. First you need to spend 5 mana, then it does nothing until you untap again. Then you need to draw a spell with multikicker that also makes sense in that situation.
True_Mumin
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Hooray for a 5-mana uncommon enchantment that does something entirely unimpressive. If it ever does anything at all.
HairlessThoctar
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Far too expensive to ever be practical, but a very cool design nonetheless.
Having all kickers read ": when this spell is kicked and deal 1 damage to target creature or player." is pretty sweet.
3/5
scotswor
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Just out of curiousity... if i cast a spell, kicked it and it was countered by my opponent, would they still receive damage would they still receive damage from rumbling aftershocks?
Gaussgoat
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
At frist I thought this thing was a bust, but it could help a burn deck finish someone off late game. Cheap kickers like Goblin Bushwhacker or Deathforge Shaman are a lot scarier when they are also damaging the opponent.
Also bear in mind that this applies to ANY kicked spell, so kickers that increase creatures like Quag Vampires or token spawners like Wolfbriar Elemental will also equal damage. Wolfbriar looks pretty damn terrifying when it is spewing 2/2 tokens AND damaging your opponent for only 1 mana at a time.
2.5/5
ScissorsLizard
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@scotswar: Yes, the aftershocks would trigger even if the spell is countered.
TheKeiser
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I played this in a black/red discard/burn deck with Deathforge Shaman, Bloodhusk Ritualist, Blightning, Emrakul's Hatcher, etc. but it turns out too slow. Getting up to 5 mana and then pretty much wasting a turn on Rumbling Aftershocks kills tempo when your opponent starts dropping 4 power creatures. I took these out and the deck played better without them. I would only play this in a green/red kicker based deck with lots of mana accel and early low cost creature kill.
Guest57443454
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
majinara has it right, the CMC is too high, and add the fact that this card works best with Multikicker, and only 3 red cards were printed with multikicker, makes this card very narrow. My inner Johnny wants to break this cards however...too bad all of the ritual effects are gone...
SoulShatterer
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card has turned Deathforge Shaman into a late-game insta-kill. For some reason, people are more than willing to praise DFS for working so well with Aftershocks, yet they rag on aftershocks itself. Chances are, if you can afford to bring out Deathforge AND kick him, you had enough mana the turn before to lay down aftershocks.
coyotemoon722
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Haven't found a way to really make this work. Should cost 4 instead, or some type of Quest trigger.
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I ran this with a ton of mana acceleration and a bunch of red/green multikicker spells. Deathforge Shaman, as mentioned, can be pretty amusing with this on the board, and it made me smile to pump out wolves with Wolfbriar Elemental while simultaneously burning people for what turned out to be ridiculous amounts.
Fun for casual, but I can't see it being effective unless you build a deck around it.
Kryptnyt
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Just kick spells with your foot as many times as you want.
Nick30075
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I like it. Nice card to combine with Saproling Infestation.
DacenOctavio
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
A brief pondering of mana cost: At {3}{R}, this would be ok. At {2}{R}, this would be ridiculous and people would actually run it. At {1}{R}, this would be in every single RDW that runs Burst Lightning and Comet Storm.
At the present, I would rather run Where Ancients Tread because I can get 5/5s for {0} thanks to Sarkhan the Mad.
The bottom line is in a RDW, this wouldn't see play because the game ends turn 4. All thanks to Cosi's Ravager and Chandra's Spitfire, in fact.
Skitter of Lizards, Burst Lightning, and Comet Storm could all make use of this.
Imperialstonedragon
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
this is severely overcosted shit
Gelzo
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I think this is just such a neat mechanic. I wish the card didn't suck so much, then I might be able to enjoy playing it.
voyager1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The card itself is expensive, and it only really starts to pay for itself if you start sinking a lot of mana into kicked spells. The payoff of killing one creature or dealing a couple extra damage to a player seems really meager. My solution? It should have hit everything! Getting a board-sweeper for the kind of mana you're spending seems only fair.
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Having all kickers read ": when this spell is kicked and deal 1 damage to target creature or player." is pretty sweet.
3/5
Also bear in mind that this applies to ANY kicked spell, so kickers that increase creatures like Quag Vampires or token spawners like Wolfbriar Elemental will also equal damage. Wolfbriar looks pretty damn terrifying when it is spewing 2/2 tokens AND damaging your opponent for only 1 mana at a time.
2.5/5
Fun for casual, but I can't see it being effective unless you build a deck around it.
At {3}{R}, this would be ok.
At {2}{R}, this would be ridiculous and people would actually run it.
At {1}{R}, this would be in every single RDW that runs Burst Lightning and Comet Storm.
At the present, I would rather run Where Ancients Tread because I can get 5/5s for {0} thanks to Sarkhan the Mad.
The bottom line is in a RDW, this wouldn't see play because the game ends turn 4. All thanks to Cosi's Ravager and Chandra's Spitfire, in fact.
Skitter of Lizards, Burst Lightning, and Comet Storm could all make use of this.