Run like Hell (duplicated from vandalhandle)

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Extinguisher

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 21

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black combat control list commanded by Ashling, the Extinguisher. The core strategy revolves around clearing the board with efficient spot removal, resolving Ashling on curve, and granting it unblockable or evasive abilities through artifacts like Whispersilk Cloak, Prowler's Helm, and Key to the Side-Door. Once Ashling connects with a player, its triggered ability forces that player to sacrifice a target creature, bypassing indestructible barriers and dismantling opposing defenses. To close out games, the deck leverages swamp-scaling equipment like Lashwrithe and Blackblade Reforged to push lethal commander damage. While the removal package efficiently controls creature-based strategies, the deck lacks stack interaction, artifact answers, and multi-opponent burst damage, meaning victories require methodical attrition and multi-turn combat sequences.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Ahriman
  • 1 Archetype of Finality
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ashling, the Extinguisher
  • 1 Ashnod's Intervention
  • 1 Banehound
  • 1 Battle at the Bridge
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blind Zealot
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Dauthi Trapper
  • 1 Dhund Operative
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 End of the Hunt
  • 1 Engine Rat
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gruesome Deformity
  • 1 Guildsworn Prowler
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Invoke Despair
  • 1 Isolation Cell
  • 1 Key to the Side-Door
  • 1 Lashwrithe
  • 1 Lightfoot Rogue
  • 1 Magus of the Coffers
  • 1 Mask of Griselbrand
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Necrotic Fumes
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Orzhov Enforcer
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Prowler's Helm
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Rabid Attack
  • 1 Ravening Warg
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune of Mortality
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Shadow Alley Denizen
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 36 Swamp
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vincent's Limit Break
  • 1 Vindictive Lich
  • 1 Vow of Malice
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival