Card database

Ad Nauseam

Legal

Type line

Instant

Oracle text

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.

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.2026-03-20
If a card in a player's library has in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.2026-03-20
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.2026-03-20

Market price

$11.90

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Use over time

11 public decks with Ad Nauseam saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.

Jul 27This week

Often played with

Across the 16 public decks that play Ad Nauseam.

16 of 16 (100%)

15 of 16 (94%)

14 of 16 (88%)

13 of 16 (81%)