D&D 5E How does Meld Into Stone and the Distant Spell metamagic interact?

[Ghastly181]

For reference

Meld Into Stone
3rd-level transmutation (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: 8 hours

You step into a stone object or surface large enough to fully contain your body, melding yourself and all the equipment you carry with the stone for the duration. Using your movement, you step into the stone at a point you can touch. Nothing of your presence remains visible or otherwise detectable by nonmagical senses.

While merged with the stone, you can’t see what occurs outside it, and any Wisdom (Perception) checks you make to hear sounds outside it are made with disadvantage. You remain aware of the passage of time and can cast spells on yourself while merged in the stone. You can use your movement to leave the stone where you entered it, which ends the spell. You otherwise can’t move.

Minor physical damage to the stone doesn’t harm you, but its partial destruction or a change in its shape (to the extent that you no longer fit within it) expels you and deals 6d6 bludgeoning damage to you. The stone’s complete destruction (or transmutation into a different substance) expels you and deals 50 bludgeoning damage to you. If expelled, you fall prone in an unoccupied space closest to where you first entered.

and Distant spell

Distant Spell. When you cast a spell that has a range of 5 feet or greater, you can spend 1 sorcery point to double the range of the spell.
When you cast a spell that has a range of touch, you can spend 1 sorcery point to make the range of the spell 30 feet.

I am concerned about the part where you can use the Distant Metamagic to give Meld into Stone a 30 foot range. Does that mean you could somehow touch a stone 30 feet away and meld into it? I have no idea how this would work.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

For reference

and Distant spell

I am concerned about the part where you can use the Distant Metamagic to give Meld into Stone a 30 foot range. Does that mean you could somehow touch a stone 30 feet away and meld into it? I have no idea how this would work.

No, it enables you to cast the spell on someone else within 30 ft., and they can meld into the stone they are touching.

Alternatively, it does nothing.

 

[cbwjm]

Not sure it really does interact since you need to step into the stone. It doesn't enable you to teleport into it since neither the spell or the metamagic allows for that. Even with that 30 foot range, you aren't touching the stone to merge with it.

 

[Shiroiken]

Not much of an interaction IMO. In theory it could be used to prep a spot for you to meld into, but the 8 hour duration would begin at the casting. This is an extreme edge case, because there's almost no reason to ever do this.

 

[jgsugden]

You could cast the spell, then move 30 feet and step into the stone there (assuming you had enough movement to get there).

 

[Tonguez]

remember those road runner cartoons when he paints a black tunnel on a rock wall and then when coyote chases him the spell is cast and he runs through the hole but coyote crashes into the rock? Imagine its something like that, very situation specific but fun in the right circumstances