×× Dance of the Elements by Jinma420

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color Elemental tribal midrange strategy piloted by Ashling, the Limitless. Ashling grants all Elemental permanent spells in hand evoke {4} and produces a hasty token copy whenever a nontoken Elemental is sacrificed. This transforms expensive 6-to-8 mana Elementals into explosive 4-mana spells that enter twice: once as the original card and once as an attacking token. The deck accelerates through specialized dorks like Smokebraider and establishes immense card flow through Risen Reef and Mulldrifter. Critical onset typically lands on turn 5 with threats like Avenger of Zendikar or Omnath, Locus of Rage, assembling lethal board presence to close the game across turns 6 and 7. While the deck boasts immense value generation and high creature velocity, it lacks cheap instant-speed countermagic and dedicated stax pieces, leaving its engine vulnerable to well-timed removal on Ashling and opposing board wipes.

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 Beza, the Bounding Spring
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Champion of the Path
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
  • 1 Elemental Spectacle
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Harbinger
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Horde of Notions
  • 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mass of Mysteries
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Oko, Lorwyn Liege // Oko, Shadowmoor Scion
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Creation
  • 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
  • 1 Phylath, World Sculptor
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Primal Beyond
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Thunderkin Awakener
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Titania, Nature's Force
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Valkyrie's Call
  • 1 Vernal Sovereign
  • 1 Vesperlark
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Ygra, Eater of All