Ashling by edrucker

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, Flame Dancer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

Ashling, Flame Dancer commands a high-velocity mono-red spellslinger storm deck designed to churn through the library and incinerate the entire table in a single explosive turn. The deck accelerates in the early turns using efficient mana rocks, rituals, and cost reducers before deploying Ashling on Turn 3 or 4. Once Ashling enters the battlefield, every instant and sorcery triggers Magecraft to loot, clear opposing small creatures with an asymmetric two-damage wipe, and generate four red mana that does not empty across phases. This engine fuels continuous spell chains into recursion powerhouses like Underworld Breach, Past in Flames, and Mizzix's Mastery. The deck closes games around Turn 5 by stacking noncombat burn from pingers such as Guttersnipe, Fiery Inscription, and Coruscation Mage, amplified by damage multipliers like Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, and Fiery Emancipation, or by channeling accumulated mana into a lethal Crackle with Power.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Bombardment
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonus Round
  • 1 Braid of Fire
  • 1 Chandra, Hope's Beacon
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Containment Construct
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Display of Power
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Firebending Student
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 1 Invoke Calamity
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 29 Mountain
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Overmaster
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai
  • 1 Young Pyromancer