Does Thrumming Stone stack?

Asked by fiblett 12 years ago

It says " spells you control have ripple 4 " if i had 2 Thrumming Stone's out would it be ripple 8?

Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1

Most questions like this can be answered by looking up the Oracle text of the card. In this case, an Oracle ruling for Thrumming Stone is as follows:

7/15/2006: If you cast a spell that already has ripple (such as Surging Flame, which has ripple 4) while Thrumming Stone is on the battlefield, both ripple abilities will trigger separately. Assuming you choose to do all "you may" actions, when the first instance of ripple resolves, you reveal the top four cards of your library, cast all Surging Flames, and put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your library. Any new Surging Flames are on the stack on top of the other instance of ripple, so they'll resolve next. Each of them also has two instances of ripple, which trigger separately, and the process continues until the ripple abilities don't reveal any Surging Flames.

This example indicates that ach Thrumming Stone will give the spell an instance of ripple 4. This does not add up to ripple 8, but instead becomes two separate instances of ripple 4 (which is important for responding to and countering abilities). Each instance will trigger and resolve separately.

702.58b If a spell has multiple instances of ripple, each triggers separately.

August 14, 2012 1:14 a.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #2

Note also that Thrumming Stone is Legendary, so be sure to have a Mirror Gallery on-hand if you plan on doing this.

August 14, 2012 8:43 a.m.