Ad Nauseam

Ad Nauseam (often shortened to Ad Naus or just Naus) is the premiere Storm enabler of cEDH. The card's power stems from the fact that EDH is a 40-life format, and thus the pilot playing Ad Naus can frequently draw upwards of 30 cards due to how Naus decks are constructed. Similar to the Epic Storm decks of Vintage and Legacy, Naus decks in cEDH are built with as much fast mana, rituals, and tutors as possible to ensure that the turn they cast or untap after casting Naus wins them the game, as they use the incredible influx of resources to efficiently assemble a combo win, most often through Underworld Breach or Thassa's Oracle combos.

With the printing of Peer into the Abyss, Naus decks have found a second copy of their most powerful enabler. Although it is riskier due to the presence of Deflecting Swat as well as the higher mana cost and sorcery speed, it is more valuable than Naus the longer the game goes. This is due to Peer only halving the pilot's life total rather than punishing them for each card drawn like Naus does.

While most Ad Naus decks seek to slam their namesake card as soon as they can, there has been an influx of "Midrange Ad Naus" decks in the format with the banning of Flash. These decks use Naus more like a big tutor, hoping it draws them into key combo pieces or tutors while keeping the card quality of a Midrange deck. Additionally, many Naus decks, especially those with Tymna the Weaver as a commander, play value creatures to recoup their lost advantage if their early Naus stopped, shifting to a more midrange game plan. As such, many Naus decks in today's cEDH format are not deterred if their primary gameplan is countered or stopped unless significant resources, as they can establish their commanders or other powerful value engines like Rhystic Study to rebuild and go for a win attempt later in the game.

## Ad Naus Decks

### Mono-Color

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth: A mono-black list that uses its commander to cheat mana costs using the pilot's life as a resource.

### Two Color

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer: A unique Dimir deck that uses its commander to break Necropotence and LED.

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy + Scion of Halaster: A graveyard-centric deck that can use its commander to rebuy Ad Naus and grind into the midgame.

Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator: Layers Naus with Doomsday to ensure fast wins through Thoracle or IsoRev.

Araumi of the Dead Tide: A hybrid deck that incorporates the Inalla Spellseeker line with the turbo Naus core, backed up by recursion through its commander.

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden: All-in Rakdos deck that layers Doomsday, with piles that are crackable through its commander that uses Kiki and Snoop lines.

Prosper, Tome-Bound: Breach, Ad Naus, and Doomsday centric storm that uses its commander to crack DDay piles and be a backup card advantage engine.

Rograkh, Son of Rogahh + Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools: Rakdos Go-Fast that also uses Bolas' Citadel and Razaketh with Rograkh to assemble fast wins.

### Three Color

Tymna the Weaver + Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator/Sakashima of a Thousand Faces: Esper Turbo that uses its commanders as midrange grind engines if stopped.

Zur the Enchanter: A Necropotence-based Storm deck that also uses Naus and other black-based storm enablers.

Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker + Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools: A Midrange Naus deck that also plays a pseudo-stax gameplan with planeswalkers and Humility.

Yennett, Cryptic Soverign: Esper Midrange Naus that cheats the mana cost of Peer into the Abyss with its commander.

Evelyn the Covetous: A Grixis deck that also wins through Worldgorger Dragon and its commander.

Grixis Naus: A collection of commanders that all do similar things with the power provided by the Grixis Naus core. Commander choices include, but are not limited to:

* Armix, Filigree Thrasher + Kraum, Ludevic's Opus
* Kess, Dissident Mage
* Krark the Thumbless + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
* Rograkh, Son of Rogahh + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
* Cormela, Glamour Thief
* Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Vial Smasher the Fierce
* Kraum, Ludevic's Opus + Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist: A blisteringly fast Grixis deck that has a complex one-card wincon with Spellseeker, as well as utilizing other typical Turbo Naus cards.

Korvold, Fae-Cursed King: Dockside Extortionist, the deck. Korvold makes treasure tokens draw cards, which lends itself to all manner of busted shenanegins.

Jund Naus: Irka Shidiqi+ a red parter to be enablers for fast Naus, enable additional combo lines, or cheating in Razaketh.

Ghave, Guru of Spores: Abzan Midrange Naus that uses creature combos with its commander and achieve an Aristocrats-style kill.

Extus, Oriq Overlord: A resilient deck that uses its commander to rebuy creatures like Ranger-Captain of Eos that sack themselves for immense value.

Kaalia of the Vast: A Naus list that also cheats in big demons that abuse a pilot's life total as a pivot if the Naus plan is stopped or inadvisable.

Mardu Tymna: Tymna + Jeska or Rograkh to have an infinite mana sink or fast mana enabler respectively, as well as Tymna as a backup grind engine.

Sidisi, Brood Tyrant: Sultai Self-Mill that layers Naus with reanimator wincons like Protean Hulk, Hermit Druid, and sometimes Food Chain.

Tasigur, the Golden Fang: A Naus build of Tasigur that also can cheat in massive creatures if stopped.

### Four Color

Tymna the Weaver + Kraum, Ludevic's Opus: Greenless Midrange Naus that leans on Tymna heavily to generate advantage while still being able to slam Ad Naus fast.

Breya, Etherium Shaper: Infinite mana outlet in the command zone for all manner of combos found off Naus and the bevvy of artifact tutors.

Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder: A manual storm deck that uses its commander as an engine to double up on every spell it casts.

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper + Kraum, Ludevic's Opus: Whiteless Turbo that gets to play powerful green cards and gain extra life to keep Naus lethal even later in the game.

Vial Smasher the Fierce + Thrasios, Triton Hero: Similar to Ikra Kraum, but with a better grind game due to Thrasios, as well as getting access to commander-based spells much faster.

### Five-Color

Codie, Vociferous Codex: 5C Naus that uses its commander with a 1-mana spell to "cascade" into Profane Tutor, which finds Ad Naus.

The First Sliver: A Naus deck that also can win with Food Chain combos by casting its entire deck through its commander.

Kenrith, the Returned King: 5-color Turbo Naus Storm. All the good storm cards from other decks in one deck!

Tiamat: Food chain, Naus, and a unique combo that Tiamat fetches all the pieces of. Also the only deck in the format that plays Dream Halls.

Najeela, the Blade-Blossom: The premiere 5C Goodstuff deck that sometimes plays Naus.