Ashling

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color Elemental tribal midrange engine helmed by Ashling, the Limitless. Ashling grants all Elemental permanent spells cast from hand evoke {4} and creates a hasty token copy whenever a nontoken Elemental is sacrificed. This allows the deck to cheat mana costs on expensive Elementals like Omnath, Locus of Rage, Titan of Industry, and Cavalier of Thorns while doubling their enter-the-battlefield abilities. Dedicated tribal ramp like Smokebraider and Flamebraider speeds up early development, while card flow engines like Risen Reef, Mulldrifter, and Garruk's Uprising keep hands stocked. The deck applies overwhelming combat pressure on Turn 5 and closes the game around Turn 7 via trampling alpha strikes and direct burn. While vulnerable to creature sweepers and lacking stack counterplay, it boasts high functional redundancy, versatile recursion, and explosive turn-to-turn momentum.

Decklist (99 cards)

• 1 Abundant Countryside
• 1 Abundant Growth
• 1 Ancient Ziggurat
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
• 1 Ashling, the Limitless
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Belonging
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blossoming Sands
• 1 Cavalier of Thorns
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cream of the Crop
• 1 Crib Swap
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Descendants' Fury
• 1 Eclipsed Flamekin
• 1 Eclipsed Realms
• 1 Elemental Spectacle
• 1 Endurance
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fertile Ground
• 1 Flamebraider
• 1 Flamekin Village
• 5 Forest
• 1 Foundation Breaker
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Fury
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1 Haunting Voyage
• 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 Pyre of Heroes
• 1 Raging Ravine
• 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Realmwalker
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Risen Reef
• 1 Rugged Highlands
• 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 Slithermuse
• 1 Smokebraider
• 1 Sodden Verdure
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Springleaf Parade
• 1 Subterfuge
• 1 Sunderflock
• 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 Twinflame Travelers
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Vernal Sovereign
• 1 Yarok, the Desecrated