Ashaya by AndK

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashaya's Enduring Bond

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul big-mana stompy strategy commanded by Ashaya's Enduring Bond, a legendary sorcery that discovers cards equal to the total mana spent to cast it. Because commander tax increases the mana spent to cast the spell, each subsequent cast from the command zone discovers higher-cost spells automatically. The game plan focuses on deploying low-cost legendary creatures on early turns to satisfy the legendary sorcery casting requirement, ramping mana aggressively, and triggering repeated cascade and discover chains. Mid-to-late turns focus on deploying massive threats like Apex Devastator, Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient, and Ghalta, Primal Hunger to generate an overwhelming board of trampling creatures. While the deck lacks deterministic tutors, infinite combos, and stax pieces, its raw card velocity, spell-duplication synergies, and high creature density overwhelm traditional removal and close games through dominant combat steps by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerid Konstrari
  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashaya's Enduring Bond
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bigger on the Inside
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Chandra, Hope's Beacon
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curator of Sun's Creation
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Double Vision
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Flamekin Herald
  • 1 Flaming Tyrannosaurus
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Franklin Richards, Ascendant
  • 1 Fury Storm
  • 1 Genesis Storm
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Glóin the Mighty // Easy Pickings
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Grand Warlord Radha
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexhaven Invigorator
  • 1 Hidden Nursery
  • 1 Hidden Volcano
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Improvisation Capstone
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Maelstrom Colossus
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Molten-Core Maestro
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Myth Unbound
  • 1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Radha, Heir to Keld
  • 1 Raiding Schemes
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Roxanne, Starfall Savant
  • 1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Xenagos, the Reveler