Dance of the Elements

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a five-color Elemental tribal value deck helmed by Ashling, the Limitless. The core plan abuses Ashling's static ability to give every Elemental permanent cast from hand evoke {4}, then converts each sacrifice into a hasty token copy that can attack immediately and optionally be kept by paying WUBRG. The deck layers ETB-doublers (Panharmonicon, Yarok, the Desecrated, Twinflame Travelers) on top of high-impact Elementals (Mulldrifter, Shriekmaw, Omnath, Locus of Rage, Avenger of Zendikar, Maelstrom Wanderer) to bury the table in card advantage, removal, and tokens. Primary wins come from go-wide combat, Champion of the Path burn on Elemental entries, and Omnath, Locus of Rage death triggers; a single low-tutor-access combo line exists as a distant backup. The curve is high (AMV 4.22) and the mana base is heavily tapped, so the deck plays as a midrange engine that grinds rather than explodes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling's Command
  • 1 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Belonging
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Champion of the Path
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
  • 1 Elemental Spectacle
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Horde of Notions
  • 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lamentation
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mass of Mysteries
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pillar of the Paruns
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Primal Beyond
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shatter the Sky
  • 1 Shimmercreep
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Shroudstomper
  • 1 Slithermuse
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Subterfuge
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Twinflame Travelers
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vernal Sovereign
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated