Last updated on January 21, 2026
Dance of the Elements releases this Friday, and people have already picked up all their elemental staples in anticipation. Ashling, the Limitless looks like a pushed precon commander, and it's got people excited to evoke out some elemental haymakers.
For anyone who got their hands on the deck early, or have been practicing with the deck elsewhere, there's a near-infinite combo to watch out for, something we've already noted as being more common in recent precons, given that there's also an infinite combo present in the Blight Curse deck from Lorwyn Eclipsed.
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Elemental Combo
The cards involved are Omnath, Locus of Rage, Risen Reef, and Cream of the Crop. Though this post mentions Jubilation, it's not really an essential part of the combo.
Basically, you just want to get all three permanents into play and go off. It doesn't matter whether Omnath or Risen Reef enters first, so long as the both end up in play with Cream of the Crop ready to go. The combo looks something like this:
- Control Risen Reef and Cream of the Crop.
- Cast Omnath, Locus of Rage. When it enters, Risen Reef and Cream of the Crop will trigger.
- Put the Risen Reef trigger on the stack first, with the enchantment trigger on top so it resolves first.
- Resolve Cream of the Crop, looking at the top five cards and placing a land on top.
- Resolve Risen Reef, revealing the land you just put on top, then putting it onto the battlefield.
- This will trigger Omnath's landfall, creating a 5/5 elemental token.
- When the token enters, Risen Reef and Cream of the Crop will both trigger again, repeating the cycle.
The result here is that you probably end up with nearly every land in your deck on the battlefield, with a 5/5 elemental for each land that entered this way. From there, you can either beat down with Omnath tokens, find some sort of sac outlet to start bolting people with those tokens, or just board wipe yourself and throw a bunch of damage around.
The combo involves a 7-drop, but the evoke ability on Ashling, the Limitless makes this even easier, as you can perform the whole combo by evoking Omnath and having the evoke sacrifice sit on the stack while you do everything else.
Obviously, this isn't foolproof or deterministic, since there's always a chance you'll whiff on Cream of the Crop and not reveal a land in the top five cards, but that's pretty unlikely. And even if this doesn't put a full 20 5/5 elementals in play and grab 20 lands, just hitting four or five times and then bricking isn't too bad.
Notably, there's nothing exclusive to the Dance of the Elements deck here. This combo doesn't involve any of the new cards, and Temur elemental decks have had access to this since the printing of Risen Reef, forming what I like to call “Reef and Cream Combo”.
You can also throw in extra cards to amplify the combo further. Omnath, Locus of the Roil grows your board and draws cards while Reef's doing its thing, and Champion of the Path should result in a win here, though that one's not included in the precon.
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At any rate, this is an easy combo to pull off, involves a couple individually strong cards, and all comes pre-packaged in a normal Commander precon, so expect to see a lot of it in head-to-head precon battles. It'll be fun to see which deck between Dance of the Elements and Blight Curse ends up comboing off more often.
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