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Bruvac the Grandiloquent

$41.22

Maddening Cacophony

$5.44

AI DraftFeb 26, 2026

Bruvac the Grandiloquent + Maddening Cacophony

Overview

When Maddening Cacophony resolves it tells each opponent to “mill” a number of cards; Bruvac the Grandiloquent is a replacement-style effect that changes any event in which an opponent would mill one or more cards to cause them to mill twice that many instead, so the numbers are doubled. Concretely: if Cacophony is not kicked it asks each opponent to mill 8, Bruvac makes that 16 (or as many as are in their library). If Cacophony was kicked it asks each opponent to mill half their library rounded up; Bruvac doubles that amount, which causes each opponent to mill their entire library (because 2 × ceil(N/2) = N when N is even, and = N+1 when N is odd, but only N cards exist to be milled). This uses the event/replacement concept in rule and the definition of opponent in .

Step 1

You cast Maddening Cacophony. Determine whether it was kicked when casting it (the Kicker mode is chosen as you cast the spell).

Step 2

The spell resolves and creates an instruction to each opponent to mill a specified number of cards: 8 if not kicked, or half their library rounded up if kicked.

Step 3

Bruvac’s static text is a replacement-style effect that applies when an opponent would mill one or more cards; it replaces the milling event with one that mills twice as many cards instead, so the number from Cacophony is doubled (this is the replacement of the event described in ).

Step 4

Calculate the doubled amounts: non-kicked: 8 → 16. Kicked: ceil(N/2) → doubled to 2 × ceil(N/2).

Step 5

Perform the milling: the opponent puts that many top cards of their library into their graveyard. If the library contains fewer cards than the number to be milled, they put all remaining cards into their graveyard (you cannot put more cards into a graveyard than are present in the library).

Step 6

After the milling finishes, state-based actions are checked; milling itself does not cause a draw-from-empty-library loss under , so opponents do not lose purely because their library reached zero from milling.

Resolution

If you control Bruvac the Grandiloquent and you cast Maddening Cacophony: If Cacophony was not kicked, each opponent mills 16 cards instead of 8 (or their whole library if they have fewer than 16). If Cacophony was kicked, each opponent mills their entire library (Bruvac doubles the 'half your library rounded up' amount, which results in attempting to mill all cards; any attempt to mill more cards than are present just mills the remaining cards). See rule for how a single event can be replaced and rule for who counts as an opponent. Also note Ruling [2020-06-23] that Bruvac only applies when the effect actually uses the word “mill.”

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