Dance of the Elements by svobrien
Format: Commander
Commander: Ashling, the Limitless
Bracket: 2
DeckCheck Threat Index: 31
Deck overview
Ashling, the Limitless leads a five-color Elemental tribal midrange deck centered on enter-the-battlefield triggers, cost reduction, and combat overwhelming. Ashling grants all Elemental permanent spells cast from hand an alternative evoke cost of {4}. When these nontoken Elementals are sacrificed to evoke, Ashling creates hasty token copies, effectively doubling every enter-the-battlefield effect for an affordable mana investment. The deck leverages premier tribal engines like Risen Reef and Mulldrifter to draw through its library and accelerate mana into devastating high-end threats. Powerhouses such as Maelstrom Wanderer, Avenger of Zendikar, Omnath, Locus of Rage, and Titan of Industry apply crushing pressure across the table. When the board is established, mass pump and combat keywords from Jubilation and Return of the Wildspeaker or mass reanimation via Haunting Voyage close out games across two attack cycles. The deck trades linear combo speed for immense value density, board presence, and resilient recursion.
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 Belonging
- 1 Blasphemous Act
- 1 Cavalier of Thorns
- 1 Chromatic Lantern
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Cream of the Crop
- 1 Crib Swap
- 1 Cultivate
- 1 Descendants' Fury
- 1 Distant Melody
- 1 Eclipsed Flamekin
- 1 Elemental Spectacle
- 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 Greenwarden of Murasa
- 1 Haunting Voyage
- 1 Hoofprints of the Stag
- 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 Raging Ravine
- 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
- 1 Reality Shift
- 1 Realmwalker
- 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 Shimmercreep
- 1 Shriekmaw
- 1 Slithermuse
- 1 Smokebraider
- 1 Sodden Verdure
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Springleaf Parade
- 1 Subterfuge
- 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 Unclaimed Territory
- 1 Vernal Sovereign
- 1 Yarok, the Desecrated