Ashling by dtp700

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Helmed by Ashling, the Limitless, this is a five-color Elemental sacrifice-value deck. Ashling turns every Elemental permanent spell in hand into an evoke tool and, more importantly, replaces each sacrificed nontoken Elemental with a hasted token copy, effectively doubling ETB and death triggers. The deck leans on cost reducers (Animar, Soul of Elements, Brighthearth Banneret, Honest Rutstein, Urza's Incubator), sacrifice outlets (Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Greater Good), and ETB Elementals like Mulldrifter, Risen Reef, and the Cavaliers to generate enormous card and mana advantage. It wins through Omnath, Locus of Rage death-trigger burn, a large Cavalier of Flame death trigger, hasted token beatdown from Maelstrom Wanderer, or the infinite Greenwarden of Murasa / Animar, Soul of Elements / Ashnod's Altar loop. This is a high-setup, high-payoff combo-value hybrid rather than a fast all-in combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Birthing Ritual
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brighthearth Banneret
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cavalier of Dawn
  • 1 Cavalier of Flame
  • 1 Cavalier of Gales
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Champion of the Path
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flamekin Harbinger
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lamentation
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Metamorphosis
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Rottenmouth Viper
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shinestriker
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Shroudstomper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Subterfuge
  • 1 Sunderflock
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Twinflame Travelers
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth