Thrumming Stone was an incredibly expensive MTG card for quite some time. First printed in Coldsnap, any MTG deck that used cards with no limit on how many copies could be played loved this card. Once you start Rippling through your deck, you can cast an absolutely ludicrous number of spells. Back in the day, Thrumming Stone was a $50 card. This changed when a direly needed reprint finally appeared in Double Masters 2022.
After Thrumming Stone got its first reprinting, supply for the card could finally properly meet demand and prices plummeted. Everyone who wanted a copy of the card could get one and an abundance of Thrumming Stone was still left over. As time passed, however, more limitless MTG cards have been printed causing demand for Thrumming Stone to increase once again.
Thrumming Stone
Thrumming Stone’s demand appears to be rising thanks to Hare Apparent. This common from MTG Foundations ticks the box of not being limited to a single copy in your Commander deck, which allows Ripple 4 to wreak havoc. To be clear, Ripple 4 triggers off of every spell you cast, including the spells cast from Ripple itself. That means one Hare Apparent can chain into multiple spells thanks to Thrumming Stone.
While Hare Apparent is definitely the card causing Thrumming Stone to rise, any Commander deck that has a similar card like Dragon’s Approach or Shadowborn Apostle will also want this card. If Ripple can cast multiple spells with one activation, you want Thrumming Stone in your deck.
As you may expect, Thrumming Stone does not see play outside of Commander. While you could try to play Thrumming Stone with MTG cards that ignore deck limits, there’s a lot less room to include the cards in smaller decks. Additionally, Thrumming Stone’s legality is rather problematic for the card’s potential to see competitive play. Modern is the least powerful format where the card is legal, and a five mana artifact that does nothing on its own while empowering weaker synergies is absolutely not good enough for that format.
The Spike
Thanks to Hare Apparent, Thrumming Stone’s demand seems to have soared. The card has now doubled in price for all of its variants, but some variants have increased even further. Overall, the card is now about $12-14 for its nonfoil variants, but you can find the card for less if the condition is not perfect. Finding a decent copy of Thrumming Stone for $10 is not unrealistic.
Compared to its previous $50 price, this is still a big improvement in price post-reprint. Imagine if Thrumming Stone wasn’t reprinted, and Hare Apparent increased the demand for the card even further. The card may have become incredibly inaccessible. This is the strength of well-placed reprints.
