Ashaya, Soul of the Wild

Legendary Creature — Elemental

This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.

Nontoken creatures you control are Forest lands in addition to their other types. (They're still affected by summoning sickness.)

Combos

• Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger
• Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Assault Suit + Thelonite Monk

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (44)

Gman6664 on Tatyova, Land Cruiser

3 days ago

• Lands: Take Simic Guildgate and Woodland Stream out. Any land that enters tapped without benefit is below par. Yavimaya Coast you can leave in for a budget add. Its personally not a card I like but this commander does offset its self-ping well.

• Remove: Hermit Druid and Elvish Reclaimer dont synergize well since you dont focus on graveyard recursion. This isnt a Muldrotha, the Gravetide deck. Though I do see a few more additions to this graveyard sub-theme now...but I feel its moreso to make work Icetill Explorer. Personally, I'd stay away from graveyard stuff since this is Simic and not Sultai. But you could still make it work, though my personal rec is to stay away from that subtheme all together. (An easy) Cut Urban Evolution, I'd want to do more than draw three cards and play an additional land for 5 mana. Tatyova, Benthic Druid has this built in and should be triggering often that you wouldnt need that card.

• Praise: Mossborn Hydra, Territorial Scythecat, Seedship Agrarian are welcome additions that stack when you play lands, and are even better when MULTIPLE lands a turn are played. Roil Elemental is one of my pet cards and by god is it fun to hit the table and mess with people.

• Consider: Panharmonicon if you are going to consider ETB creatures for a number of your land drops (think of how Ashaya, Soul of the Wild will pop off!). Add Retreat to Kazandu to amplify when your lands enter on any other creature (switch with Retreat to Coralhelm.

• Confusion: I'm curious about your Hydras' and 'X' cost creatures and their effectiveness. Not what I would have thought to do with a bunch of mana, but it does set you up where an opponent can counter your big spell and your turn is dead in the water. I'm otherwise not seeing big bombs in your deck. Yes, Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger is formidable, and Avenger of Zendikar is a staple in this kind of deck. But how do we make these creatures all unblockable? How do we beef them all up with +1/+1 counters? Or how do we protect and regenerate our creatures from board wipes?

• Thoughts: You clearly like playing Blue, some counterspells are present and you like to mess with your opponents plays. Theres something to look into here with that mentality. Not sure what it is as I havent found myself on that particular 'counter' path in MTG yet. But worth exploring to make this deck more your own and less how I've built mine.

• Conclusion: Overall, its a vast improvement from what it was and is certainly faster. I'd focus on getting to either a good combo or having a fordmiable board state. My deck focuses on tempo and bouncing opponents lands back to their hands and giving me advantage that way. You have found a playstyle that works for you and you should keep exploring it.

Chaospyke on Xu-Ifit and reanimating Clones (Layers, …

3 weeks ago

Rhadamanthus

How would Xu-Ifit work with Ashaya, Soul of the Wild then? Everything I've seen says that Ashaya's type changing ability would keep applying even if it loses all abilities.

eliakimras on Kool-Aid Man if He Knew Mitosis

2 months ago

Since your goal is to cycle through lands, you may want to swap out Command Tower, Kazandu Refuge, Rugged Highlands and Temple of Abandon for more fetchlands: Terramorphic Expanse, Vibrant Cityscape, Escape Tunnel, Mountain Valley, Fabled Passage, Jund Panorama, Naya Panorama, Shire Terrace, Promising Vein, Warped Landscape, Terminal Moraine, Demolition Field (this one also serves as removal), Urza's Cave, Blighted Woodland.

It looks like you're going with an Elemental subtheme. How about Zendikar's Roil, Silverglade Elemental, Embodiment of Fury, Embodiment of Insight, Ashaya, Soul of the Wild, Geode Rager, Undergrowth Champion, Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar, Lumra, Bellow of the Woods, Sandman, Shifting Scoundrel, Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer, Rubblehulk, Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer, Phylath, World Sculptor, Avenger of Zendikar and Rumbleweed to round off the synergies?

KayneMarco on Land Sacrifice

4 months ago

Love it! +1ed. I love seeing unique lands strategies, and this is that. Lands matter has been my favorite ability since getting back into the game in ‘17. I’ve got all mono colored commanders picked out for mono colored lands decks. I’ve built two of them using Patron of the Moon for blue and Ashaya, Soul of the Wild for green.

Foxigami on Earthquake

1 year ago

Scapeshift, Primeval Titan, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Explore, Golos, Tireless Pilgrim, Arboreal Grazer, Spelunking, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove would be some cards that are fun.

Springheart Nantuko is such a fun card to build around. there are some many combos i can think of that would be fun with it assuming you trigger the landfall trigger and play for the bestow cost. bestowing it on Arboreal Grazer would make you empty your hand of all lands, bestowing it on Azusa, Lost but Seeking or Dryad of the Ilysian Grove allows you to play an infinite amount of lands, and Golos, Tireless Pilgrim or Primeval Titan as it would allow you to automatically play all the lands in your library... though you would need Spelunking or Amulet of Vigor to make the lands enter untapped. if you really wanna some jank infinite combo, bestow it on Scute Swarm and have Ashaya, Soul of the Wild for infinite scute swarms and landfall triggers. i think the most janky combo i can think of with this card would be Life and Limb, Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, and Mind Bend. if valakut and yavimaya are on the battlefield and you mind bend valakut to replace the mountain text with forest. you can bestow any of your lands and have valakut ping an infinite number of times.

anyways, Springheart Nantuko combo tangent aside, i highly recommend adding either Crucible of Worlds, Conduit of Worlds, Ramunap Excavator, Perennial Behemoth, and/or Walk-In Closet / Forgotten Cellar as it would allow you to recast your fetch lands from your graveyard every turn.

Flarhoon13 on Estrid's Masquerade Ball and Chain

1 year ago

May 3, 2024, I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.

Jul 21, with Rich, Ella Marie, Neil, Joseph, Alan

Estrid's Masquerade Ball and Chain Won, record stands at 16-22-1, Satyr Enchanter drew a lot of cards; Winds of Rath killed a lot of creatures; Ley Weaver got Lore Weaver, of course, then Ashaya, Soul of the Wild allowed Ley Weaver to make infinite mana by untapping itself and another land; which, of course, allows Lore Weaver to draw as many cards as I might have liked. Winning the game was not hard at that point. Win percentage goes up to .421

Froze on If a creature becomes a …

1 year ago

If Ashaya, Soul of the Wild is on the battle field with Zimone, Mystery Unraveler and I manifest dread a card, would ashaya’s second ability cause Zimones second ability to trigger and turn the face down card up? Since manifesting a card makes a 2/2 creatures and ashaya’s second ability makes creatures also land types, thus causing the landfall ability to trigger?

Maaloufler on 7 lands? Good!

2 years ago

Cool deck. Some creature options you might want to consider Cultivator Colossus for a beater, Wild-Field Scarecrow can act as a second Armillary Sphere, Ashaya, Soul of the Wild can help combo for infinite mana with Magus of the Candelabra.

With all the excess mana you're going to be making Jinxed Choker, Goblin Cannon, Rocket Launcher, and Magma Mine are pretty tempting to one shot an opponent.

Protection for your commander can come in a few forms. You're already running a great one, That Which Was Taken. Tyrite Sanctum, can give your commander indestructible. Heroic Intervention can help as well. If you're worried about targeted exile cards like Tamiyo's Safekeeping, Autumn's Veil, and Veil of Summer can help protect.