ashlingLimitless_paper by doublevp

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 17

Deck overview

This is a five-color Elemental deck led by Ashling, the Limitless. Its main engine turns evoke Elementals into extra temporary copies: an evoked Mulldrifter can draw two cards, be sacrificed, and create a hasty copy that provides another enter-the-battlefield trigger. The deck then converts Elemental density into larger value through Risen Reef, Elemental Bond, Temur Ascendancy, Soul of the Harvest, and landfall payoffs such as Avenger of Zendikar and Omnath, Locus of Rage. Horde of Notions, Living Death, and several death-trigger creatures provide recovery and late-game staying power. Its main weakness is that value is not the same as a finish. The deck lacks a deterministic combo, reliable table-wide damage clock, and broad protection. Maelstrom Wanderer is the strongest ordinary pressure point, but cascade results and combat damage remain variable.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aethersnipe
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brighthearth Banneret
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cavalier of Flame
  • 1 Cavalier of Gales
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cloudkin Seer
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Evolutionary Leap
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fertilid
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Harbinger
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Grave Sifter
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Horde of Notions
  • 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nevermaker
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Regal Force
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skullmulcher
  • 1 Slithermuse
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spitebellows
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Whisperwood Elemental
  • 1 Wispmare
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast