Ashling Elemental by Zuza

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This five-color deck utilizes Ashling, the Limitless to cheat the mana costs of expensive Elemental permanents by granting them evoke {4} from hand. When these creatures are sacrificed to the evoke trigger, Ashling copies them as hasty tokens, effectively doubling enters-the-battlefield triggers and creating immediate board presence. The game plan focuses on casting Ashling on Turn 3, deploying heavy-impact Elementals like Avenger of Zendikar, Vernal Sovereign, and Belonging on subsequent turns, and overwhelming opponents through wide token swarms and enter-the-battlefield attrition. While the deck boasts high creature redundancy and explosive midrange turns, it runs a basic-heavy mana base with limited fast mana and minimal instant-speed interaction. As a result, it thrives in battlecruiser and synergy-driven pods where it can assemble its board without facing rapid combo finishes or heavy stax.

Decklist (99 cards)

• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashling, the Limitless
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Banishing Light
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Belonging
• 1 Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest
• 1 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
• 1 Cavalier of Thorns
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Collective Inferno
• 1 Command Bridge
• 1 Daydream
• 1 Dimensional Exile
• 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
• 1 Duty Beyond Death
• 1 Eclipsed Flamekin
• 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
• 1 Elegy Acolyte
• 1 Enraged Flamecaster
• 1 Flamebraider
• 1 Flamehold Grappler
• 1 Flamekin Gildweaver
• 7 Forest
• 1 Foundry Champion
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Gala Greeters
• 1 Gathering Stone
• 1 Genku, Future Shaper
• 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1 HULK SMASH!
• 1 Huskburster Swarm
• 1 Ingot Chewer
• 1 Involuntary Employment
• 1 Irregular Cohort
• 2 Island
• 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
• 1 Jennika's Technique
• 1 Lamentation
• 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
• 1 Living End
• 1 Long Feng, Grand Secretariat
• 1 Lord Dregg, Insect Invader
• 1 Luminollusk
• 9 Mountain
• 1 Oji, the Exquisite Blade
• 1 Omen of the Dead
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Peregrin Took
• 1 Phantom Steed
• 6 Plains
• 1 Quina, Qu Gourmet
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Repel Calamity
• 1 Return to the Light Realms
• 1 Reveillark
• 1 Rimekin Recluse
• 1 Risen Reef
• 1 Rooftop Percher
• 1 Rottenmouth Viper
• 1 Savage Lands
• 1 Shambling Vent
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shriekmaw
• 1 Smelt-Ward Ignus
• 1 Spark Trooper
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Subterfuge
• 1 Sundering Growth
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Thousand Winds
• 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
• 1 Trapped in the Screen
• 1 Vernal Sovereign
• 1 Yasharn, Implacable Earth