What should you cut from the Dance of the Elements precon?
Dance of the Elements is the Ashling, the Limitless precon, released on January 23, 2026. We ran the stock deck through EDHTuner at bracket 2, the same check the tool runs on a deck you paste.
EDHTuner names one cut, and it rests on what the cards do. Here it is, with the reason it gives.
| Card | Why EDHTuner would cut it |
|---|---|
| Kodama's Reach | Cultivate does the same job, so freeing this slot costs you the least. |
The deck is short on card advantage. The tool suggests cards to add there. This page shows no adds.
How this deck works
Ashling, the Limitless leads an Elemental tribal deck that also leans on tokens. Its main plan to win is to attack with its creatures. Its 100 cards include 40 lands, 15 ramp, 8 card advantage and 11 targeted disruption.
What bracket is it?
By Wizards' bracket rules, the Dance of the Elements precon is bracket 1 or higher. It runs no Game Changers, mass land denial, extra-turn cards or two-card infinite combos.
The rules also ask how fast a deck wins and what it's built to do, and that part is for you and your table. The bracket checker page says how EDHTuner reads each rule.
How its counts compare
Each row counts the cards that do that job. The medians come from 18,414 public Commander decks on Moxfield, collected in July and November 2026. Moxfield puts 4,822 of them at brackets 1 and 2 and 6,057 at bracket 3. The deck numbers page says what each row counts. See how many lands Commander decks run, from the decks we counted.
| Dance of the Elements | EDHTuner aims for | Median, brackets 1-2 | Median, bracket 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 40 | Playtested in the tool | 36 | 35 |
| Ramp | 15 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Card advantage | 8 | 12 | 9 | 10 |
| Targeted disruption | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| Mass disruption | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Protection | 0 | No set number | 2 | 3 |
Mass disruption: 1 covers a deck built on its own creatures.
Themes EDHTuner finds in it
EDHTuner reads a deck's themes from the rules text on its cards. These are the themes it shows for Dance of the Elements.
- Elemental tribal
- Tokens
All 100 cards
These are the precon's cards, grouped by what EDHTuner counts them as.
Show the 100 cards
Commander
| Ashling, the Limitless |
Lands, 40 cards
| Card | Copies |
|---|---|
| Abundant Countryside | 1 |
| Ancient Ziggurat | 1 |
| Command Tower | 1 |
| Exotic Orchard | 1 |
| Flamekin Village | 1 |
| Forest | 8 |
| Frontier Bivouac | 1 |
| Island | 2 |
| Jungle Shrine | 1 |
| Mountain | 2 |
| Opal Palace | 1 |
| Opulent Palace | 1 |
| Path of Ancestry | 1 |
| Plains | 2 |
| Primal Beyond | 1 |
| Raging Ravine | 1 |
| Rain-Slicked Copse | 1 |
| Sandsteppe Citadel | 1 |
| Savage Lands | 1 |
| Seaside Citadel | 1 |
| Secluded Courtyard | 1 |
| Sodden Verdure | 1 |
| Swamp | 2 |
| Thriving Bluff | 1 |
| Thriving Grove | 1 |
| Thriving Heath | 1 |
| Thriving Isle | 1 |
| Thriving Moor | 1 |
| Unclaimed Territory | 1 |
Ramp, 15 cards
| Abundant Growth | Arcane Signet | Chromatic Lantern |
| Cultivate | Faeburrow Elder | Fellwar Stone |
| Fertile Ground | Flamebraider | Jegantha, the Wellspring |
| Kodama's Reach | Selvala, Heart of the Wilds | Smokebraider |
| Sol Ring | Springleaf Parade | Timeless Lotus |
Card advantage, 8 cards
| Distant Melody | Eclipsed Flamekin | Garruk's Uprising |
| Mulldrifter | Return of the Wildspeaker | Risen Reef |
| Slithermuse | Subterfuge |
Targeted disruption, 11 cards
| Crib Swap | Foundation Breaker | Fury |
| Ingot Chewer | Lamentation | Omnath, Locus of Rage |
| Omnath, Locus of the Roil | Path to Exile | Reality Shift |
| Shriekmaw | Titan of Industry |
Mass disruption, 3 cards
| Bane of Progress | Blasphemous Act | Shatter the Sky |
Everything else, 22 cards
| Avenger of Zendikar | Belonging | Cavalier of Thorns |
| Cream of the Crop | Descendants' Fury | Elemental Spectacle |
| Endurance | Greenwarden of Murasa | Haunting Voyage |
| Hoofprints of the Stag | Horde of Notions | Impulsivity |
| Incandescent Soulstoke | Jubilation | Kindred Summons |
| Maelstrom Wanderer | Mass of Mysteries | Muldrotha, the Gravetide |
| Realmwalker | Shimmercreep | Vernal Sovereign |
| Yarok, the Desecrated |
Run it yourself
The tool opens in a new tab and runs the stock deck at bracket 2. There you also get the cards it would add and every cut it names, and it playtests each swap it suggests.
The Ashling, the Limitless page shows what public Ashling, the Limitless decks on Moxfield run. The guide to cutting cards shows how EDHTuner picks cuts. The precons page has every other precon EDHTuner checked.
Checked on November 9, 2026 with EDHTuner v0.248.0. The tool reads EDHREC's data each time it runs, and that data changes, so it can name different cuts than this page does. The precon's cards come from MTGJSON (MIT license). Card data comes from Scryfall and play data from EDHREC.