Maddening Cacophony
Maddening Cacophony: Sorcery, Zendikar Rising. Kicker 3U. Each opponent mills eight cards. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Zendikar Rising (ZNR)
- Released
- 2020-09-25
- Collector number
- 67
- Artist
- Magali Villeneuve
- Commander rank
- 1,619 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Mill, Kicker
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About Maddening Cacophony
Maddening Cacophony is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue sorcery from Zendikar Rising (ZNR), an expansion set released in September 2020. It is collector number 67 in that set, with art by Magali Villeneuve. It costs {1}{U} (one generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $5.94 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Kicker {3}{U}
Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.
Jace traced Nahiri to the Singing City, but the magic of the ancient ruins threatened to overwhelm his mind.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $5.94 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Maddening Cacophony by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Maddening Cacophony
Maddening Cacophony has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2674 | Rare | 2026 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2322 | Rare | 2025 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2337 | Rare | 2025 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #83774 | Rare | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising Promos (PZNR) #67p | Rare | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising Promos (PZNR) #67s | Rare | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising (ZNR) #330 | Rare | 2020 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Maddening Cacophony, newest first.
- If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
- The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
- To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
- If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
- If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.