Ad Nauseam
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive #90 (mythic)
- Price
- $30.77 USD
Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.
Ad Nauseam has 5 printings, first in Shards of Alara (2008). EDHREC ranks it #1,365 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kraum, Ludevic's Opus // Tymna the Weaver decks (9,490 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Ad Nauseam most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kraum, Ludevic's Opus // Tymna the Weaver: 9,490 decks
- Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin: 2,829 decks
- Korvold, Fae-Cursed King: 2,142 decks
- Rowan, Scion of War: 2,110 decks
- The Wandering Minstrel: 1,915 decks
- Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin: 1,845 decks
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth: 1,820 decks
- Norman Osborn // Green Goblin: 1,803 decks
Often played with Ad Nauseam
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You may continue to reveal cards with Ad Nauseam even if your life total has been reduced to 0 or less. If you continue, you will continue to lose life, dropping your life total into negative numbers. As soon as you stop, you'll lose the game as a state-based action.
- : If a card in a player's library has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
- : Each time you put the revealed card into your hand and lose the appropriate amount of life, you decide whether to continue by revealing another card. You don't decide in advance how many cards to put into your hand this way.