(Competitive) 5C Ad Nauseam Combo

Commander / EDH*

Paramount-TC

Land (39)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Archaeological Dig
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forsaken City
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Tendo Ice Bridge
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Undiscovered Paradise
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (22)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dark Sphere
• 1x Engineered Explosives
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fountain of Youth
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Gustha's Scepter
• 1x Jeweled Amulet
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Foundry
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Urza's Bauble
• 1x Zuran Orb

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Infernal Plunge
• 1x Infernal Tutor
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Overmaster
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Rite of Flame
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Sickening Dreams

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Exploration

Commander (1)

Instant (15)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Silence
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer

Creature (9)

• 1x Crimson Kobolds
• 1x Crookshank Kobolds
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Kobolds of Kher Keep
• 1x Memnite
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Phyrexian Walker
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide

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5c Ad Nauseam Combo

This is a Competitive Multiplayer EDH deck. This was the record holder for fastest combo deck during Partial Paris mulligan and now i've updated it for London Mulligan. It consistently wins games Turn 1-3 mostly turn 1-2, unless opponents answered there is only a handful of answers that could stop the combo. It is a risky, low resiliency, but a super fast combo deck. Thanks to it's speed it was far more successful than any other Ad Nauseam Combo decks in EDH during that time. I also played often online with the deck in cEDH Pods as well. Around 30% of the time the deck wins Turn 1, and about the other 70% of the time it would win Turn 2. There are many times the deck goes first, and just wins on turn 1 without any interaction.

Factors to Winning: There are two important factors to winning with this deck: Mulligans, and Combo Lines. It is important to use the right line of mana acceleration, to use the tutor to get Ad Nauseam. The entire process had to be thought out pre-game. Every game you'd need to spend at least a minute or two to figure out a line. You must also do all of that before the game begins while mulliganing where you construct a hand to win Turn 1-2.

How does it win? Simply it turbos into Ad Nauseam then draws the entire deck, plays Angel's Grace, then Sickening Dreams discarding about 50 cards to deal 50 damage to all players in the game. Since Angel's Grace prevents our death we survive thereby winning the game.

Important design innovations It was by chance that I realized by filling the slots that I didn't need with more lands made the deck function. This deck never loses games to life loss from Ad Nauseam either that is because of the well constructed array of low cost nonland spells.

Why Cromat? The Commander is Cromat, simply for the colors, a strategy I came up with called deck-swapping, and well to make it appear less threatening. When people would lose the first game against this deck, this deck is switched out for another Cromat deck this is either pure Stax, Prison, or Control. Assuming I won game 2 using an entirely different strategy, I would switch to yet another Cromat deck that would be a midrange multi-combo strategy designed to deal with angry opponents. This is the 'infamous' Paramount deck switch, where I used the same commander for different strategies to surprise my opponents. This would allow me a easy 3-0 win against opponents.

Notes: May add Play Lines, Combo Lines, and Mulligans later.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 59 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	0.89
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 C