Five-ColorLegendary Creature — Elemental SorcererAshling, the Limitless
Mana value3Rank#6,119
The Commander
Elemental permanent spells you cast from your hand gain evoke 
as you cast them. (If you cast a spell for its evoke cost, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Whenever you sacrifice a nontoken Elemental, create a token that's a copy of it. The token gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of your next end step, sacrifice it unless you pay .
Guide
Gameplan
Cast Elemental permanents for evoke , immediately sacrifice them, and use Ashling's trigger to make a hasty token copy that re-triggers any enter-the-battlefield effects. Chain evoke and sacrifice loops with cost reducers and recursion to grind value, swarm bodies, or assemble combos, paying WUBRG when you want to keep the copy permanently.
Strengths
- Five-color identity gives access to the best ramp, tutors, removal, and the entire Elemental tribe
- Doubles ETB value on every Elemental you evoke, turning one cast into two triggers
- Cheap three-mana commander that immediately generates value
- Synergizes with sacrifice payoffs, evoke creatures, and blink-style ETB engines
Weaknesses
- Keeping token copies requires the full WUBRG payment, which is steep and color-hungry
- Without ETB-relevant Elementals the evoke discount produces little
- Heavily commander-dependent; loses tempo if Ashling is removed repeatedly
- Mana base is demanding and prone to color screw
- Many payoff pieces are fragile creatures vulnerable to board wipes
Key Cards
- Mulldrifter — Evoke it for to draw two, then copy it with Ashling to draw two more.
- Shriekmaw — Evoke to kill a creature, then the token copy kills a second creature on the same turn.
- Spitebellows — Repeatable five-damage burst that doubles via the token copy.
- Ashnod's Altar — Free sacrifice outlet that fuels Ashling triggers and generates mana for evoke or WUBRG payments.
- Cloudstone Curio — Bounces Elementals back to hand to recast and re-trigger ETBs repeatedly.
- Risen Reef — Engine that draws and ramps off every Elemental ETB, doubled by Ashling's copy.
Upgrade Path
Tighten the mana base with fetches, duals, and fixing like Chromatic Lantern so you can reliably pay WUBRG. Add free or recurring sacrifice outlets (Phyrexian Altar, Viscera Seer) and ETB doublers like Panharmonicon, then include a compact combo such as Ashnod's Altar plus a recursion loop to close games. Prioritize Elementals with high-impact ETBs and trim do-nothing tribal filler.
Core Cards
- Garruk's Uprising
- Belonging
- Cavalier of Thorns
- Mass of Mysteries
- Eclipsed Flamekin
- Faeburrow Elder
- Jegantha, the Wellspring
- Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
- Return of the Wildspeaker
- Titan of Industry
- Shimmercreep
- Endurance
Seeded from a single deck — rates appear once more public decks exist.
Win Conditions
- ▸Repeated burn from evoking Spitebellows, Flametongue Kavu, and similar Elementals
- ▸Going wide with Elemental tokens and overrun effects
- ▸Aristocrats drain via Blood Artist / Zulaport Cutthroat off mass sacrifices
- ▸Combo loops with Ashnod's Altar plus recursion for infinite tokens or mana
Archetypes
- Elemental Tribal — Commander natively rewards a deck full of Elementals with evoke discounts and copy triggers.
- Aristocrats — Sacrificing nontoken Elementals is a core mechanic, pairing perfectly with sac outlets and death payoffs.
- Value ETB / Blink — Evoke plus the token copy doubles enter-the-battlefield effects for relentless card advantage.
- Combo — Sacrifice loops with copy effects and altars can enable token or damage-based infinite engines.
Combos
- Ashling, the Limitless + Animar, Soul of Elements + Greenwarden of Murasa
→ Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Ashling, the Limitless + Ashnod's Altar + Greenwarden of Murasa
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite death triggers
- Ashling, the Limitless + Grave Sifter + Animar, Soul of Elements
→ Each opponent returns all creature cards from their graveyard to their hand, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite ETB
- Ashling, the Limitless + Greenwarden of Murasa + Temur Battlecrier
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Ashling, the Limitless + Ashnod's Altar + Grave Sifter
→ Each opponent returns all creature cards from their graveyard to their hand, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BGRUW), by popularity.
