Kevin’s Ashling by limitedroark

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 21

Deck overview

Ashling, the Limitless turns sacrificed nontoken Elementals into temporary token copies, making evoke creatures especially valuable. The clearest early engine is an evoke Mulldrifter: the original draws two cards, Ashling, the Limitless creates a copy, and the copy draws two more. This gives a strong burst of cards, but retaining the copy requires paying all five colors at the next end step. The deck then transitions into large Elementals such as Maelstrom Wanderer, Omnath, Locus of Rage, Titan of Industry, and Champion of the Path. Its mana and creature tutors are functional, but many lands enter tapped, the curve is high, and the interaction package lacks countermagic. The deck can generate impressive value and explosive boards, yet its damage plan is not deterministic. It usually reaches a credible threat around turn 8 or later and has no reliable same-game clock for eliminating all three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Aethersnipe
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brighthearth Banneret
  • 1 Cavalier of Gales
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Champion of the Path
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with the Gods
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Evolutionary Leap
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Harbinger
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gather the Pack
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Grave Sifter
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Havoc Eater
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jubilation
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Lamentation
  • 1 Life Finds a Way
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Primal Beyond
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Shroudstomper
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinner of Souls
  • 1 Steely Resolve
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunderflock
  • 1 Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Twinflame Travelers
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast