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Ashling, Flame Dancer

Legendary Creature — Elemental Shaman

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Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, discard a card, then draw a card. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, Ashling deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If it's the third time, add {R}{R}{R}{R}.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Modern Horizons 3 Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1563
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Ashling, Flame Dancer card art
Ashling, Flame Dancer turns every instant and sorcery into a board-wide magnet for fire damage — cast a spell, ping everything, and watch those triggers snowball into a board clear or a kill before opponents can stabilize. The ceiling is absurd: chain spells with something like Sozin's Comet and the damage multiplies fast enough to close games from nowhere, and Electro, Assaulting Battery shells love her for exactly that reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Electro, Assaulting Battery

Electro, Assaulting Battery

55.3% of decks · synergy 0.49

Electro, Assaulting Battery pairs with Ashling, Flame Dancer because both rewards stacking instant and sorcery triggers, and Electro's ability to copy spells means Ashling's damage pings fire off repeatedly in a single turn.

02

Urabrask

46.2% of decks · synergy 0.40

Urabrask's philosophy of casting spells on every player's turn gives Ashling, Flame Dancer constant fuel — more spell casts mean more pings, and Urabrask's impulse draw keeps the hand full enough to sustain that pressure.

03
Krark, the ThumblessSakashima of a Thousand Faces

Krark, the Thumbless // Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

44.8% of decks · synergy 0.39

Krark, the Thumbless // Sakashima of a Thousand Faces copies and rebounds instants and sorceries at random, and every one of those copies or recastings is another trigger for Ashling, Flame Dancer to distribute damage across the board.

04
Ozai, the Phoenix King

Ozai, the Phoenix King

37.9% of decks · synergy 0.36

Ozai, the Phoenix King wants to burn face repeatedly, and Ashling, Flame Dancer amplifies that gameplan by turning each spell in the chain into additional chip damage that Ozai's strategy converts into a closing threat.

05
Fire Lord Zuko

Fire Lord Zuko

35.8% of decks · synergy 0.35

Fire Lord Zuko's spell-slinging aggro plan benefits directly from Ashling, Flame Dancer's ability to spread damage passively — every combat-step spell chips the board down so Zuko's attacks close faster.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Ashling, Flame Dancer is built to live — the 99-card singleton format gives her enough spell density and enough opponents to make every triggered ping meaningful, and the long game lets her damage output compound into something devastating. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but faces a tempo environment where a three-mana creature with a delayed payoff rarely survives long enough to matter; the formats that can run her don't particularly want her. Oathbreaker is the sleeper home: as a signature spell target or a supporting piece, her triggered damage scales well in a shorter, spellslinger-centric game.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Ashling, Flame Dancer isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the live number. Given her strong inclusion rates across multiple popular commanders, expect her to carry a meaningful price tag rather than a bulk-rare cost — pick her up for a deck you're actively building rather than speculating on shelf copies.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.