Ashling by user4510589

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Elemental tribal midrange strategy helmed by Ashling, the Limitless. Ashling grants all Elemental permanent spells cast from hand an alternate evoke cost of {4} and creates a temporary token copy with haste whenever a nontoken Elemental is sacrificed. This engine doubles enter-the-battlefield triggers while providing immediate combat pressure at a steep mana discount. The early game focuses on establishing color fixing through green land ramp and tribal mana dorks like Smokebraider. On Turn 4, Ashling begins converting evoke creatures—such as Mulldrifter, Foundation Breaker, and Shriekmaw—into immediate card advantage and removal. By Turn 5, the deck deploys heavy game-ending threats like Avenger of Zendikar, Omnath, Locus of Rage, or Maelstrom Wanderer, flooding the board with massive creature tokens and closing the game through coordinated combat steps by Turn 7. While explosive and rich in value, the deck lacks counterspell protection and runs many tapped lands.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Abundant Growth
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 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 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eclipsed Flamekin
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 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 Kulrath Zealot
  • 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 Shatter the Sky
  • 1 Shimmercreep
  • 1 Shinestriker
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Stratosoarer
  • 1 Subterfuge
  • 1 Sunderflock
  • 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 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vernal Sovereign
  • 1 Wistfulness
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated