Ashling by user3159009

Format: Commander

Creator: user3159009

Commander: Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a mid-tempo Izzet spellslinger build helmed by Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound. The primary strategy focuses on transforming Ashling on Turn 3 to unlock two mana each turn dedicated exclusively to high-mana-value spells (CMC 4+). The deck leverages this mana jump to deploy impactful cost reducers, copy effects, and token generators such as Archmage of Runes, Tellah, Great Sage, Rootha, Mastering the Moment, and Shark Typhoon. Without relying on fast mana or infinite combos, the list looks to establish an overwhelming board presence by chaining large spells, triggering passive burn damage from Longshot, Rebel Bowman, and converting spells into an evasive token army. While it excels at mid-game card flow and velocity once set up, its lack of hard tutors, light countermagic suite, and dependence on untapping with multiple fragile non-haste permanents make it vulnerable to board wipes and fast proactive strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ajani's Anguish
  • 1 Alania, Divergent Storm
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
  • 1 Baral and Kari Zev
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Charming Scoundrel
  • 1 Colorstorm Stallion
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Elminster's Simulacrum
  • 1 Ensnared by the Mara
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Expansion // Explosion
  • 1 Explosive Singularity
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fantastic Elasticity
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Flamekin Gildweaver
  • 1 Gandalf the Grey
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Harbinger of the Seas
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Ill-Timed Explosion
  • 1 Into the Time Vortex
  • 1 Ionize
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Kang the Conqueror
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Magma Opus
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Maximum Carnage
  • 1 Mizzix of the Izmagnus
  • 16 Mountain
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Pirate's Pillage
  • 1 Plea for Power
  • 1 Prismari Charm
  • 1 Relm's Sketching
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Rielle, the Everwise
  • 1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Tanufel Rimespeaker
  • 1 Tellah, Great Sage
  • 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
  • 1 The Flux
  • 1 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
  • 1 Volcanic Vision
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 Wishing Well
  • 1 Zaffai and the Tempests