Dance of the Elements - 1.1 by ItsEducational

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color kindred midrange deck commanded by Ashling, the Limitless. The primary strategy revolves around using Ashling's ability to grant Elemental spells evoke {4}. When an Elemental is cast for evoke, it enters the battlefield, sacrifices itself, and triggers Ashling's second ability to produce a hasty token copy. This doubles all enters-the-battlefield triggers while providing immediate board impact and aggressive combat potential. The deck ramps in the early turns with kindred mana engines like Smokebraider and Flamebraider, transitions into value engines like Risen Reef and Mulldrifter, and closes games by dropping overwhelming threats such as Omnath, Locus of Rage, Avenger of Zendikar, and Maelstrom Wanderer. While the deck possesses massive card velocity and explosive board presence, it lacks dedicated instant-speed protection and stax interaction, requiring careful sequencing around opposing board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Abundant Growth
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Belonging
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eclipsed Flamekin
  • 1 Elemental Spectacle
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Horde of Notions
  • 1 Impulsivity
  • 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
  • 1 Jubilation
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lamentation
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mass of Mysteries
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Primal Beyond
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shimmercreep
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Slithermuse
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Subterfuge
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vernal Sovereign
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast