Dance of the Elements by omegakage
Format: Commander
Commander: Ashling, the Limitless
Bracket: 3
DeckCheck Threat Index: 35
Deck overview
This deck is a five-color Elemental tribal midrange build piloted by Ashling, the Limitless. The strategy leverages Ashling's ability to grant evoke {4} to any Elemental permanent spell cast from hand, turning expensive late-game bombs into efficient early value plays. Whenever a nontoken Elemental is sacrificed—such as through evoke—Ashling creates a temporary hasty token copy, effectively doubling enters-the-battlefield abilities and supplying immediate combat pressure. The deck features dedicated tribal mana producers like Smokebraider and Flamebraider alongside massive draw engines like Risen Reef and Mulldrifter. While it lacks instant-speed stack interaction and dedicated defensive shielding, the deck compensates with substantial recovery mechanisms via Horde of Notions, Muldrotha, the Gravetide, and Haunting Voyage. Once high-end threats like Omnath, Locus of Rage and Avenger of Zendikar enter the fray, the board rapidly becomes lethal through overwhelming wide-board combat damage.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 Abundant Countryside
- 1 Abundant Growth
- 1 Ancient Ziggurat
- 1 Arcane Sanctum
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Ashling, the Limitless
- 1 Avenger of Zendikar
- 1 Bane of Progress
- 1 Belonging
- 1 Blasphemous Act
- 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 Eclipsed Flamekin
- 1 Elemental Spectacle
- 1 Endurance
- 1 Exotic Orchard
- 1 Faeburrow Elder
- 1 Fellwar Stone
- 1 Fertile Ground
- 1 Flamebraider
- 1 Flamekin Village
- 8 Forest
- 1 Foundation Breaker
- 1 Frontier Bivouac
- 1 Fury
- 1 Garruk's Uprising
- 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
- 1 Haunting Voyage
- 1 Hoofprints of the Stag
- 1 Horde of Notions
- 1 Impulsivity
- 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
- 1 Ingot Chewer
- 2 Island
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
- 1 Jubilation
- 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 Omnath, Locus of Rage
- 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
- 1 Opal Palace
- 1 Opulent Palace
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 1 Path to Exile
- 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 Slithermuse
- 1 Smokebraider
- 1 Sodden Verdure
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Springleaf Parade
- 1 Subterfuge
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Thriving Bluff
- 1 Thriving Grove
- 1 Thriving Heath
- 1 Thriving Isle
- 1 Timeless Lotus
- 1 Titan of Industry
- 1 Unclaimed Territory
- 1 Vernal Sovereign
- 1 Yarok, the Desecrated