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Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color Elemental tribal midrange build centered around Ashling, the Limitless. Ashling grants all Elemental permanent spells cast from hand an alternative evoke cost of {4}. When an Elemental is cast for evoke, it enters the battlefield, triggers its enter-the-battlefield ability, and is immediately sacrificed. Ashling's second ability then triggers, creating a hasty token copy of that Elemental and doubling its enter-the-battlefield trigger. The deck uses this mechanic to turn massive threats like Titan of Industry, Maelstrom Wanderer, and Belonging into high-tempo 4-mana spells that attack immediately. Acceleration from Smokebraider, Flamebraider, and cost reducers ensures Ashling is deployed on Turn 3 and followed by a sequence of explosive evoke turns. Card velocity from Risen Reef, Mulldrifter, and Garruk's Uprising refills the hand rapidly, driving toward a decisive combat and direct damage finish by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Ajani's Anguish
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Aurora Awakener
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Belonging
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court of Bounty
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eclipsed Flamekin
  • 1 Elemental Spectacle
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Fusion Elemental
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Horde of Notions
  • 1 Impulsivity
  • 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
  • 1 Jubilation
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lamentation
  • 1 Leyline Immersion
  • 1 Maelstrom Nexus
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mass of Mysteries
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Primal Beyond
  • 1 Prismatic Undercurrents
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Shatter the Sky
  • 1 Shimmercreep
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Subterfuge
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Twinflame Travelers
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vernal Sovereign
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast