Red Spell Slinger by SpagNoodle

Format: Commander

Creator: SpagNoodle

Commander: Ashling, Flame Dancer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This mono-red spellslinger deck centers on Ashling, Flame Dancer as a hybrid mana battery, card filter, and board controller. The game plan relies on deploying cheap mana rocks and setup permanents on the opening turns, casting Ashling on Turn 4, and unlocking her Magecraft abilities on Turn 5. By casting multiple low-cost instants and sorceries each turn, the deck rummages toward high-impact payoffs, clears small opposing creatures with Ashling's second trigger, and stockpiles {R}{R}{R}{R} across phases. Critical onset arrives on Turn 6 when damage multipliers like Torbran, Thane of Red Fell or Solphim, Mayhem Dominus amplify spellslinger triggers from Guttersnipe and Fiery Inscription. Opponents are afforded one response cycle before a decisive flurry of spells or a Past in Flames recursion turn burns the entire table out on Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Bombardment
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Chandra, Hope's Beacon
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Conspiracy Theorist
  • 1 Containment Construct
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Crackling Spellslinger
  • 1 Crash Through
  • 1 Crystal Grotto
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Display of Power
  • 1 Double Vision
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Dual Strike
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Electrostatic Infantry
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Erebor Flamesmith
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hidden Volcano
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magus of the Moon
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirrorpool
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Overmaster
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Powerbalance
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Ramunap Ruins
  • 1 Return the Past
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Rodeo Pyromancers
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Sea Gate Wreckage
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shattering Spree
  • 1 Smoldering Crater
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Soulbright Flamekin
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Young Pyromancer