The deck aims to race the table and pump out large amounts of mana and burn quickly while using some control elements such as Burning Sands and Ruination. Howling Mine and Anvil of Bogardan are some good draw that work with this strategy.
The deck runs very few creatures. This helps to push strategies like Repercussion + Blasphemous Act as well as to work around Ashling's board wipe capacity itself. The few creatures that are ran are Phoenixes so you can recur them after a wipe, and Godo, Bandit Warlord to tutor up things like Basilisk Collar.
Getting Sword of Fire and Ice or Darksteel Plate onto Ashling will ensure she doesn't blow herself up, but sometimes you may want her to be able to in order to avoid getting tucked.
A goodstuffs production.
A few points of interest:
Ashling's Flame: Deck Stats
CMC: 3.42 avg
1 Ashling the Pilgrim
//Creatures
1 Godo, Bandit Warlord
1 Magma Phoenix
1 Skarrgan Firebird
//Enchantments
1 Braid of Fire
1 Blood Moon
1 Repercussion
1 Burning Sands
1 Furnace of Rath
1 Gratuitous Violence
1 Pyrohemia
1 Stranglehold
1 Vicious Shadows
1 Glacial Crevasses
//Planeswalkers
1 Chandra Ablaze
1 Karn Liberated
//Instants
1 Price of Progress
1 Skred
1 Reiterate
1 Reverberate
1 Wild Ricochet
1 Comet Storm
1 Fault Line
1 Chaos Warp
1 Shattering Pulse
1 Into the Core
1 Vandalblast
1 Mana Geyser
1 Insurrection
1 Aftershock
1 Gamble
1 Ruination
1 Recoup
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Reforge the Soul
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Molten Disaster
1 Rolling Thunder
1 Earthquake
//Artifacts
1 Mind's Eye
1 Howling Mine
1 Anvil of Bogardan
1 Crystal Ball
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Scroll Rack
1 Darksteel Plate
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Batterskull
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sol Ring
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Extraplanar Lens
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Heartstone
1 Torpor Orb
1 Gauntlet of Power
1 Caged Sun
1 Gauntlet of Might
1 Brittle Effigy
1 Sculpting Steel
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Arid Mesa
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Grixis Panorama
1 Naya Panorama
1 Jund Panorama
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Terrain Generator
1 Scrying Sheets
1 Mouth of Ronom
1 Strip Mine
1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
24 Snow-Covered Mountain
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Avalon: The Legend Begins :: Pirate Set :: Babel: The Æther Wars
Favorite Magic Card: Fowl Play
[Primer] [Barrin's Tome]: A Master Wizard's Spellbook.
Neheb
Marath
Yidris
Sharuum
Yidris
Mind Stone isn't a bad idea, but I think there's enough good card draw/filtering in the deck that it can live without Mind Stone.
Pristine Talisman is a card that I've been considering though to offset some of the global damage and ramp ever so slightly.
Avalon: The Legend Begins :: Pirate Set :: Babel: The Æther Wars
Favorite Magic Card: Fowl Play
[Primer] [Barrin's Tome]: A Master Wizard's Spellbook.