It's unusually expensive for a cEDH staple, but when that staple can draw you upwards of thirty cards at instant speed on a good day, five mana doesn't seem so bad. If you don't pay close attention to your curve, Ad Nauseam is just a fancy way of killing yourself.īut with an appropriately crafted deck, Naus may well be the best card in it. But there is a cost, and it's more than just your life total: it's how you build your deck. If Dark Confidant is greatness at any cost, Ad Nauseam is victory at any cost. It's been a staple of the cEDH metagame since the competitive community even had a name, and for good reason. I could write an entire article about Ad Nauseam. It's been 20 years since these were first printed, a reminder of the changes the color pie has gone through. Big mana? Sure, the dastardly duo of Cabal Coffers and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth have haunted the format since the latter was first printed, but if we go back even further, we find what black was once best at: ridiculously quick rituals. You don't think of black when you think of fast mana in traditional EDH. Read on and find out which spells you'll need before you leave your precious swamp and venture into the meta. If you've ever felt your life total wasn't working hard enough for you, black might be your color. With risky combos, the original rituals, the biggest draw spells in the format, and the best tutors in the history of Magic, sometimes black feels like cEDH incarnate. Īs dangerous and dastardly as the swamps from whence its mana comes, black is likely tied for the strongest color in cEDH. G'day, Jake FitzSimons back in black with another Comprehending Competitive. White | Blue | Black | Red | Green | Multicolor | Colorless | Lands Vampiric Tutor by Raymond Swanland Competitive Color Breakdown
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