Ashling, the Limitless by Monger

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashling, the Limitless

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy 5-color Elemental tribal deck commanded by Ashling, the Limitless. Ashling grants every Elemental spell cast from hand an alternate evoke cost of {4} generic mana and creates a temporary token copy with haste whenever a nontoken Elemental is sacrificed. This transforms expensive, game-ending Elementals into efficient four-mana double-trigger spells. The deck accelerates through early ramp like Smokebraider and Flamebraider to assemble Ashling on Turn 3. On Turns 4 and 5, it snowballs card advantage and board pressure using engines like Risen Reef, Elemental Bond, and Twinflame Travelers. Massive threats like Rottenmouth Viper, Omnath, Locus of Rage, and Cavalier of Flame deliver devastating life drain, board attrition, and wide combat damage, consistently finishing games by Turn 6. Defensively, tutorable pitch Elementals and efficient instant-speed protection safeguard the engine against disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling, the Limitless
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brighthearth Banneret
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cavalier of Flame
  • 1 Champion of the Path
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Harbinger
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghostway
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horde of Notions
  • 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Leafkin Druid
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Primal Beyond
  • 1 Pyre of Heroes
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Risen Reef
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rottenmouth Viper
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Subtlety
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunderflock
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Twinflame Travelers
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated