Card
Ad Nauseam
Mana cost {3}{B}{B}
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.
Game Changer: not allowed in brackets 1–2, counts as one of the three allowed in bracket 3. Part of 16 known combos, 11 of them two-card. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Game Changer
- On the official list — none allowed in brackets 1–2, at most three in bracket 3.
- Printing
- Rare · ALA · #63
- Cheapest printing
- €7.30
- EDHREC salt
- 1.78
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
- B2 Core — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Teferi's Protection, Phyrexian Unlife, Platinum Angel, Flare of Fortitude, Lich, Triskaidekaphile, Cloudsteel Kirin, Gideon of the Trials, Platinum Emperion, Soul Echo
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- On the official Game Changers list
- Two-card combo with Teferi's Protection, Phyrexian Unlife, Platinum Angel, Flare of Fortitude, Lich, Triskaidekaphile, Cloudsteel Kirin, Gideon of the Trials, Platinum Emperion, Soul Echo, Perch Protection (early with Teferi's Protection, Phyrexian Unlife, Platinum Angel, Flare of Fortitude, Lich, Triskaidekaphile, Cloudsteel Kirin, Gideon of the Trials, Platinum Emperion, Soul Echo)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
16 known combos, 11 of them two-card.
- Ad Nauseam + Teferi's Protection
Produces: Infinite card draw
View on Commander Spellbook - Ad Nauseam + Phyrexian Unlife
Produces: Infinite card draw
View on Commander Spellbook - Ad Nauseam + Platinum Angel
Produces: Infinite card draw
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2026-03-20 · Wizards of the Coast
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. - 2026-03-20 · Wizards of the Coast
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. - 2026-03-20 · Wizards of the Coast
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.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast