Dance of the Elements by user5979698

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Elemental tribal midrange list commanded by Ashling, the Limitless. Ashling grants every Elemental spell in your hand evoke {4} and creates a hasted token copy whenever a nontoken Elemental is sacrificed. This turns high-cost Elemental beaters into undercosted double-ETB value spells and immediate combat threats. The mana base leverages dedicated tribal ramp like Smokebraider and Flamebraider alongside classic land fetchers to deploy Ashling on Turn 3. On Turn 4, the deck begins chaining evoked Elementals like Cavalier of Thorns, Titan of Industry, and Avenger of Zendikar, drawing cards through Risen Reef and Garruk's Uprising. By Turn 5, mass pump effects like Jubilation or swarm spells like Kindred Summons overwhelm opponents with combat damage. While the deck boasts immense value generation and recovery through graveyard recursion, it has limited stack protection and relies on overwhelming board presence to close out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Belonging
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodbriar
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
  • 1 Elemental Spectacle
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flaring Cinder
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 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
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
  • 1 Jodah's Codex
  • 1 Jubilation
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lamentation
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mass of Mysteries
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Primal Beyond
  • 1 Prismatic Undercurrents
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shatter the Sky
  • 1 Shimmercreep
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Slithermuse
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Subterfuge
  • 1 Sundial of the Infinite
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vernal Sovereign
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated