Live Play Data

Ad Nauseam

· Instant · Double Masters (2XM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

589

Decks Running

266

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=69

10%

17%

46%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 43% (12 / 69 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

590 brought · 241 players

Brought to game

590

Ever drawn

155

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +12.4pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=57) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=332).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=78).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +25.0pp; 95% confidence interval +12.4pp to +37.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

184 instances

1.1%

Library

6.0%

Battlefield

37.5%

Graveyard

17.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tymna the Weaver 18 decks
2 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 10 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 9 decks
4 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 9 decks
5 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus 8 decks
6 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 7 decks
7 Edgar Markov 6 decks
8 Kenrith, the Returned King 6 decks
9 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 6 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 5 decks

Card text

Ad Nauseam

Instant

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.

Double Masters (2XM) · Rare · Illustrated by Jeremy Jarvis

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.