Dance of the Elements by user5187680

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 18

Deck overview

Ashling, the Limitless turns sacrificed nontoken Elementals into temporary hasty copies. The deck uses evoke creatures and other Elemental enters-the-battlefield effects to gain extra removal, cards, lands, and creatures. Mulldrifter is the clearest value example: evoking it while Ashling, the Limitless is active can produce the original and copied draw triggers. The deck then transitions into a wide combat board with Avenger of Zendikar, Omnath, Locus of Rage, Vernal Sovereign, Mass of Mysteries, and Garruk's Uprising. Its mana base has strong color coverage, but many lands enter tapped and the curve is high. Interaction is present but mostly creature-based, sorcery-speed, or expensive. The ordinary plan assembles around turn 6, creates a serious must-answer board around turn 8, and usually needs three further combat cycles to eliminate the table. It is a synergy-driven general-power deck, not a deterministic combo or competitive control shell.

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 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 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vernal Sovereign
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated