Ashiok, Dream Render
Legendary Planeswalker — Ashiok
Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library.
−1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- War of the Spark Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #2509
Ashiok, Dream Render shuts off all library searching the moment it lands — every tutor, fetch land, and Hive Mind trigger hits a wall at three mana. Umbris, Fear Manifest decks run it at a 64% rate because milling opponents also grows the commander, but the passive search-lock earns its slot in any blue-black shell that wants to tax or stall.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Umbris, Fear Manifest
Ashiok, Dream Render does double duty in Umbris, Fear Manifest — the minus ability mills cards into exile, and each exiled card pumps Umbris's power and toughness, turning a hate piece into a kill condition.
Muldrotha, the Gravetide
Ashiok, Dream Render is a permanent type Muldrotha, the Gravetide can replay from the graveyard, so even if opponents remove it, the search lock comes back online the following turn for free.
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager decks lean on hand disruption and attrition, and Ashiok, Dream Render extends that plan by stranding opponents who rely on tutors to rebuild after discard pressure.
Phenax, God of Deception
Phenax, God of Deception is already milling as a primary strategy, and Ashiok, Dream Render layers a search lock on top of that mill, preventing opponents from finding their graveyard-hate or answers while the library shrinks.
Araumi of the Dead Tide
Araumi of the Dead Tide fills graveyards as a resource engine, and Ashiok, Dream Render ensures opponents can't tutor into graveyard hate or silver bullets that would shut the whole plan down.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ashiok, Dream Render is a precision hate piece — three mana for a permanent that reads 'players can't search libraries' is backbreaking in a format where fetch lands, Demonic Tutor, and Worldly Tutor define power-level ceilings. The mill ability is secondary but relevant, exiling rather than sending to the graveyard, which blocks reanimation lines. In Modern and Pioneer, Ashiok, Dream Render sees sideboard play specifically to answer Primeval Titan, Amulet of Vigor, and any fetch-heavy mana base — it answers whole decks rather than individual cards. Legacy has faster threats and Force of Will to answer it, so it's niche there. Across every legal format, the floor is 'shuts off fetchlands'; the ceiling, in Commander, is 'wins the game through Umbris or a mill-plus-lock engine.'
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Hive MindDoomsdayAshiok, Dream Render
Exile each opponent's library; Near-infinite lifeloss
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Sources
Mentioned
- Hive Mind
- Umbris, Fear Manifest
- Muldrotha, the Gravetide
- Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
- Phenax, God of Deception
- Araumi of the Dead Tide
- Doomsday
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.