If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
Maddening Cacophony
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.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from SLD — the lineup includes Borderless alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #2674 of *Secret Lair Drop*, the set that shipped alongside the June 2026 Secret Lair Drop release.
Card type: Sorcery, color identity blue, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {1}{U} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: Mill and Kicker.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #1,635 in Commander, putting it in the common-include tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Jack Teagle. Rarix catalogs 7 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Jack Teagle
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