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Ad Nauseam

· Instant · Double Masters (2XM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

384

Decks Running

174

In Decks

1336

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

105 instances

1.9%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

34.3%

Graveyard

13.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

385 brought · 161 players

Brought to game

385

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=26) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=231).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=52) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +23.7pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +42.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

10%

23%

37%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 47% (7 / 30 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

30 of 100 times cast 30%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.