Dance of the Elements by user4770870

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Elemental tribal deck commanded by Ashling, the Limitless. Ashling allows you to cast any Elemental permanent from your hand for an evoke cost of {4}. When a nontoken Elemental is sacrificed to evoke, Ashling creates a token copy with haste, doubling all enter-the-battlefield abilities while cheating high-cost Elementals into play ahead of schedule. The primary game plan ramps on early turns using mana dorks like Smokebraider and Flamebraider alongside land-ramp sorceries. Once Ashling is on the battlefield, the deck chains powerful Elementals such as Mulldrifter, Cavalier of Thorns, and Risen Reef to draw cards and ramp further. In the mid-to-late game, overwhelming threats like Omnath, Locus of Rage, Avenger of Zendikar, and Maelstrom Wanderer overwhelm opponents through wide boards and hasty combat steps. While the deck possesses massive value generation and high threat density, it lacks instant-speed stack protection and relies heavily on Ashling staying on board to discount its heavy top-end creatures.

Decklist (101 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 Brushland
  • 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