Elemental permanent spells you cast from your hand gain evoke as you cast them. (If you cast a spell for its evoke cost, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Whenever you sacrifice a nontoken Elemental, create a token that's a copy of it. The token gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of your next end step, sacrifice it unless you pay .
Cast Elemental permanents for evoke , immediately sacrifice them, and use Ashling's trigger to make a hasty token copy that re-triggers any enter-the-battlefield effects. Chain evoke and sacrifice loops with cost reducers and recursion to grind value, swarm bodies, or assemble combos, paying WUBRG when you want to keep the copy permanently.
Five-color identity gives access to the best ramp, tutors, removal, and the entire Elemental tribe
Doubles ETB value on every Elemental you evoke, turning one cast into two triggers
Cheap three-mana commander that immediately generates value
Synergizes with sacrifice payoffs, evoke creatures, and blink-style ETB engines
Keeping token copies requires the full WUBRG payment, which is steep and color-hungry
Without ETB-relevant Elementals the evoke discount produces little
Heavily commander-dependent; loses tempo if Ashling is removed repeatedly
Mana base is demanding and prone to color screw
Many payoff pieces are fragile creatures vulnerable to board wipes
Engine that draws and ramps off every Elemental ETB, doubled by Ashling's copy.
Tighten the mana base with fetches, duals, and fixing like Chromatic Lantern so you can reliably pay WUBRG. Add free or recurring sacrifice outlets (Phyrexian Altar, Viscera Seer) and ETB doublers like Panharmonicon, then include a compact combo such as Ashnod's Altar plus a recursion loop to close games. Prioritize Elementals with high-impact ETBs and trim do-nothing tribal filler.
Legendary Creature — Elemental Sorcerer
as you cast them. (If you cast a spell for its evoke cost, it's sacrificed when it enters.)