Elemental Dance by Lorq

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a five-colour Elemental tribal deck piloted by Ashling, the Limitless. The deck's core engine is the commander's ability to give every Elemental permanent you cast from hand evoke {4}, turning each one into a cheap sacrifice-triggers factory. When a nontoken Elemental is sacrificed, Ashling creates a hasty token copy that can be kept permanently by paying {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} at the next end step. The deck leverages this to chain ETB effects from cards like Mulldrifter, Risen Reef, and Fury, then uses The Master, Multiplied and Massive Ourdemons solid to make those tokens stick. Win conditions include an enormous board from [[Elemental Spectacle or Prismabasher, drain from Omnath, Locus of Rage or Champion of the Path, and a go-wide aggression via Mass of Mysteries and myriad tokens. The strategy is value-oriented and grindy, relying on generating more value than opponents and overwhelming them with forces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Abundant Growth
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling's Command
  • 1 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Catharsis
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Champion of the Path
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Eclipsed Flamekin
  • 1 Elemental Spectacle
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Hivespine Wolverine
  • 1 Horde of Notions
  • 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Mass of Mysteries
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phylath, World Sculptor
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Primal Beyond
  • 1 Prismabasher
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Shroudstomper
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tempestra, Dame of Games
  • 1 The Master, Multiplied
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Twinflame Travelers
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vernal Sovereign
  • 1 Wistfulness
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Yasharn, Implacable Earth
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast