Ashling: Red Deck Wins

Introduction

Embrace the mana flood! Ashling the Pilgrim is a deck focused on doing one thing and one thing well, nuking the board. Build up your mana base to ramp Ashling in power, while using a small pool of cards to gain an edge in damage.

Rulings

Ashling the Pilgrim

Ashling's ability only deals damage after the third time it triggers in one turn. This means you can activate up to two times each turn while still keeping her on the board. This lets you build up a bigger threat and hit harder when it does deal damage. Damage is dealt to Ashling too, which is why we run cards like Magebane Armor

Damage Doublers and Duplicators

Fiery Emancipation, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, and Dictate of the Twin Gods are used to boost the amount of damage coming from Ashling. These put a flat multiplier onto Ashling and make it so that even the smallest triggers have the potential to wipe the board (3 counters x 2 x 3 = 18 Damage!)

Toralf, God of Fury, Brash Taunter, and Repercussion copy damage and direct it to another source. Because this is another instance of damage being done, and because this is based on the damage you already dealt, it also gets multiplied. That 18 damage from earlier gets turned all the way up to 106 Damage! (18 x 2 x 3).