Kiln Fiend + Storm

[Jekawo]

If i have "Kiln Fiend" in play, and play a spell like "Ground Rift" will each successive copy count up on "Kiln Fiend"s ability?

[Maximo]

Yes. Each copy of the spell is being "cast".

[Jekawo]

Awesome. Thanks a lot. How about if i play a spell like gigadrowse and replicate it, would that count too?

[Maximo]

Derp it's late I'm sorry, replicate totally works. Also, use curly brackets to link stuff. {{}}

Also also, {Kiln Fiend}, {Ground Rift}, {Gigadrowse}

[Jekawo]

Ok awesome. But say i play a {Gut Shot} {Stromkirk Noble} and then 2 {Ground Rift} how many times would the last {Ground Rift} actually get played?

[Maximo]

The first rift gets played 3 times, and the second rift gets played 6 times. Man screw the rift, use {Grapeshot}!

[Jekawo]

Nah, it's still {Kiln Fiend} that is the main card.

[Maximo]

Right right, the fiend. Nasty.

[Jekawo]

Yeah, and then an {Assault Strobe} for good measure, and we're golden.

[Maximo]

Man, that's.. A 30 damage combo possible on turn 5, faster if you have things like {Seething Song}..

[Jekawo]

You only need 3 mana a {Lava Dart} a {kiln fiend} and 2 {assault strobe}s. Then its a turn 3.

[BadLuckIrish]

wait wait....i dont think the copies made by storm affect storm because your not casting they are copied while on stack...i could be wrong though...

[Maximo]

The spells are still cast, since each of the copies needs to resolve on its own and each one can be countered and stuff.

.. I think.

[JaCe BeLeReN]

{Fling} the {Kiln Fiend} for the win.

[scarsabrex]

resolving a spell does not mean it was cast. casting is the movement of a spell(card?) to the stack from another zone. copies aren't explicitly cast unless said so e.g. {isochron scepter}

why does this specificly matter? all the storm copies have storm so going by your logic this woulg cause them to trigger into infinity. and if they didn't a later storm spell would count the copies as resolving changing the scaling of storm spells from linear to exponential making even non infinite storm comboes overpowered.