Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
Color Identity
Details
Mana Value
2
Popularity
#1,017
of 3,466 commanders · via EDHREC
Card Text
Legendary Creature — Elemental Sorcerer // Legendary Creature — Elemental Wizard
Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Ashling, Rekindled, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {U}. If you do, transform Ashling.
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Whenever this creature transforms into Ashling, Rimebound and at the beginning of your first main phase, add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast spells with mana value 4 or greater.
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {R}. If you do, transform Ashling.
1/3
Playstyle
Midrange · Steady · Minimal interaction · Wins by engines
- Aggression
- 2 of 5
- Speed
- 2 of 5
- Interaction
- 1 of 5
- Combat
- 2 of 5
- Engine
- 4 of 5
- Complexity
- 4 of 5
Card Price
Strategy Guides
Spellslinger Strategy Guide
Spellslinger decks are for players who want each instant and sorcery to advance the board, refill the hand, or pressure life totals. This strategy wants to cast cheap spells across every turn cycle, using spellslinger commanders, magecraft payoffs, and copy effects, to win through accumulated damage, spell-made tokens, or card advantage. Unlike Storm, it does not need one huge chain turn, and unlike Combo it is not waiting for specific pieces to end the game at once. The best instants and sorceries decks reward steady sequencing and careful use of interaction.
Ramp Strategy Guide
Ramp decks are for players who want to spend the early game accelerating so later turns happen ahead of schedule. This strategy wants to build more mana than the table, using mana ramp EDH staples, extra land drops, dorks, and rocks, to win through earlier threats, large spells, or a resource lead opponents must answer. Ramp is different from Landfall because acceleration is the point, and different from Big Mana because it is the engine rather than the payoff. The best ramp commanders reward extra mana sources while still giving you something meaningful to cast.
Big Mana Strategy Guide
Big Mana decks are for players who want the game to build toward casting one spell that changes every resource count at once. This strategy wants to accelerate beyond normal mana development, using land ramp, mana rocks, doublers, and big mana commanders, to win through X spells, huge spells EDH tables have to answer, or haymakers like Torment of Hailfire and Expropriate. In the Ramp, Landfall, and Big Mana overlap, Ramp is acceleration, Landfall turns land drops into triggers, and Big Mana is the payoff plan for spending all that mana. Unlike Storm, it usually casts fewer spells in a turn and asks each one to matter on resolution.
Storm Strategy Guide
Storm decks are for players who want to sculpt a hand, pick one decisive turn, and chain cheap spells until the count becomes lethal. This strategy wants to cast many spells in one turn, using cantrips, rituals, cost reducers, and storm commanders, to win through Grapeshot, Tendrils of Agony, Aetherflux Reservoir, or another storm-count payoff. In the Spellslinger, Storm, Big Mana, and Combo cluster, Spellslinger grinds value from each instant or sorcery, Big Mana spends on fewer huge spells, Combo assembles fixed pieces, and Storm turns spell volume into the win. The best storm combo EDH decks reward careful sequencing because every card has to convert into mana, cards, count, or a protected finish.
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