Ele-monsters Inc. by Enaemaehkiw

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color Elemental kindred strategy built around Ashling, the Limitless. Ashling grants every Elemental permanent spell in hand evoke {4} and duplicates any nontoken Elemental that is sacrificed, creating a temporary haste copy. This mechanic allows the deck to cast expensive 6-to-8 CMC Elementals at a steep discount while triggering their enter-the-battlefield abilities twice in a single turn. The deck accelerates in the early game with dedicated Elemental mana dorks like Smokebraider and Bloom Tender. On Turn 4 and 5, it deploys Ashling and pivots into massive value engines using Risen Reef, Mulldrifter, Avenger of Zendikar, and Omnath, Locus of Rage. The resulting hasty token swarms and double triggers overwhelm opponents with combat damage and direct burn, while mass reanimation spells like Haunting Voyage and Bloodline Bidding provide powerful late-game recursion to recover from board wipes.

Decklist (100 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 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Cavalier of Dawn
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Champion of the Path
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deceit
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
  • 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 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Horde of Notions
  • 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
  • 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 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 Shinestriker
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Shroudstomper
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 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