Here for a Good Time, Not a Long Time by Yoggsimp

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a five-color Elemental tribal value deck helmed by Ashling, the Limitless, whose evoke-granting ability turns every Elemental permanent you cast into a cheap, hasty token-copy engine. The deck layers ETB doublers - Yarok, the Desecrated, Panharmonicon, Twinflame Travelers, and Reflections of Littjara - with Elemental payoffs like Risen Reef, Champion of the Path, and Omnath, Locus of Rage to bury opponents in card advantage and token swarms. It wins primarily through combat damage from a wide, hasty board, amplified by Mass of Mysteries' myriad and Maelstrom Wanderer's double cascade, with ETB and death-trigger damage (Champion of the Path, Goblin Bombardment) as a secondary route. The commander is a powerful enabler but not the sole engine - the 99 is dense with independent value pieces, making the deck reasonably resilient to commander removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling's Command
  • 1 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Belonging
  • 1 Berserk
  • 1 Birthing Ritual
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Cathedral of War
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Champion of the Path
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Quarry
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Horde of Notions
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jubilation
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Lamentation
  • 1 Life Finds a Way
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mass of Mysteries
  • 1 Mirrorform
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Muster the Departed
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Primal Beyond
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Riveteers Ascendancy
  • 1 Rottenmouth Viper
  • 1 Rumbleweed
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Subterfuge
  • 1 Sunderflock
  • 1 Sundial of the Infinite
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Twinflame Travelers
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vibrance
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated