Lorwyn Eclipsed has two Commander decks, both released with the set on January 23, 2026: Blight Curse, led by Auntie Ool, Cursewretch in black, red and green, and Dance of the Elements, led by Ashling, the Limitless in all five colours. Each box has a second foil commander, The Reaper, King No More in Blight Curse and Mass of Mysteries in Dance of the Elements, and 10 cards new to the game among its other 98. Our bracket checker reads both lists as Bracket 2 (Core), with no Game Changers. The full 100-card lists are on our precon pages for Blight Curse and Dance of the Elements. Product details are on the publisher's product pages, and every Commander deck follows the Commander rules, section 903 of the Comprehensive Rules.
One deck turns -1/-1 counters into cards and lost life; the other casts Elementals for their evoke cost and copies them when they're sacrificed. The publisher puts it as "Embrace beauty with Ashling or hex your opponents with Auntie Ool". Here's how each list works and how to choose between them.
Lorwyn Eclipsed at a glance
- Released: January 23, 2026, the main set and both Commander decks.
- Set codes: ECL for the main set, legal in Standard, Pioneer and Modern as well as in Commander. The new cards in the Commander decks carry the code ECC (Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander) and are legal in Commander, Legacy and Vintage.
- Commander decks: two, Blight Curse and Dance of the Elements. The publisher's decklist page lists no Collector's Edition.
- In each box: a ready-to-play 100-card deck with a traditional foil face commander and a traditional foil featured commander, both with borderless art, and 98 non-foil cards, 10 of them new to the game; 10 double-sided tokens, plus a punch-out counter card in Blight Curse; a reference card; and a deck box.
- Mechanics at the Commander table: blight, a new keyword action (Comprehensive Rules 701.68a), and evoke, back from the original Lorwyn (702.74a).
The two decklists
Blight Curse: Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
Black, red and green. Auntie Ool, Cursewretch, {1}{B}{R}{G}, is a 4/4 Goblin Warlock with ward, whose cost is blight 2. Whenever one or more -1/-1 counters are put on a creature, you draw a card if you control that creature; if you don't, its controller loses 1 life. The twist is that your own counters are fuel: every creature of yours that takes -1/-1 counters draws you a card. To blight 2 means to put two -1/-1 counters on a creature you control (Comprehensive Rules 701.68a), so an opponent who targets Auntie Ool must do that to one of their own creatures or see the spell or ability countered (702.21a), and Auntie Ool then makes them lose 1 life for it.
The second foil commander, The Reaper, King No More, {2/B}{2/R}{2/G}, puts a -1/-1 counter on each of up to two target creatures when it enters, and once each turn, when a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Incremental Blight puts counters on three different creatures at once, which is three Auntie Ool triggers, and Black Sun's Zenith puts X -1/-1 counters on every creature, triggering her for each one. Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons adds a 1/1 deathtouch Snake whenever you put -1/-1 counters on a creature.
The list runs 27 creatures, 12 sorceries, 7 enchantments, 6 instants, 6 artifacts, 2 planeswalkers and 39 lands, at an average mana value of 3.7. Our bracket checker reads it as Bracket 2 (Core), with no Game Changers. The full Blight Curse decklist.
Dance of the Elements: Ashling, the Limitless
All five colours. Ashling, the Limitless, {2}{R}, is a 2/3 Elemental Sorcerer. Elemental permanent spells you cast from your hand gain evoke {4}, and whenever you sacrifice a nontoken Elemental, you create a token copy of it that gains haste, which you sacrifice at your next end step unless you pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. That cost is why a {2}{R} card leads a five-colour deck: colour identity counts the mana symbols in a card's rules text too (Comprehensive Rules 903.4).
Evoke lets you cast a creature for its evoke cost, and then it's sacrificed when it enters (702.74a), which is exactly what Ashling wants. Mulldrifter, evoked for {2}{U}, draws two cards and dies, and Ashling hands you a hasty token copy that draws two more. Fury, evoked by exiling a red card from your hand, deals 4 damage divided among creatures and planeswalkers, then its token copy does it again and can attack with double strike. The second foil commander, Mass of Mysteries, {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, is a 5/5 with first strike, vigilance and trample that gives another Elemental you control myriad at the beginning of combat on your turn, so when that Elemental attacks, you may create a token copy attacking each other opponent, exiled at end of combat (702.116a).
The list runs 35 creatures, 7 sorceries, 7 enchantments, 5 instants, 5 artifacts and 40 lands, at an average mana value of 4.3, the highest of the eleven 2026 precons in our precon ranking, with sixteen cards at mana value six or more. Our bracket checker reads it as Bracket 2 (Core), with no Game Changers. The full Dance of the Elements decklist.
Blight Curse and Dance of the Elements side by side
| Detail | Blight Curse | Dance of the Elements |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | Auntie Ool, Cursewretch | Ashling, the Limitless |
| Second foil commander | The Reaper, King No More | Mass of Mysteries |
| Colours | Black, red, green | All five |
| Main mechanic | Blight and -1/-1 counters | Evoke and Elementals |
| Creatures | 27 | 35 |
| Lands | 39 | 40 |
| Average mana value | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| Card draw (our reading) | 15 | 11 |
| Ramp (our reading) | 7 | 12 |
| Bracket (our checker) | 2 (Core) | 2 (Core) |
The average is taken over the nonland cards. Both decks include Sol Ring, Arcane Signet and Command Tower.
Which Lorwyn Eclipsed deck should you pick?
Blight Curse if you want a deck that rewards learning. Our precon ranking calls it the 2026 precon that rewards learning the most, because the counters that look like they hurt you are the plan, and it's the worked example in our ten-card upgrade guide. Dance of the Elements if you already have some games behind you: our ranking calls it a bad first deck rather than a bad deck, with five colours, the highest curve of the eleven and a commander whose token clause wants one mana of every colour.
Either box's second foil commander shares its deck's colour identity, so you can swap leaders without changing a card (Comprehensive Rules 903.4 and 903.5c).
How to upgrade them
Copy either list from its precon page into the deck builder, no account needed, and change ten cards rather than forty. The ten-card method walks through Blight Curse card by card, and calls Dance of the Elements the hardest of its eleven decks to upgrade well, because every slot is a mana question first. The Validation tab checks the 100 cards, the singleton rule and colour identity as you build (Comprehensive Rules 903.5a, 903.5b and 903.5c), and the bracket checker tells you when a swap moves the list out of Bracket 2: any Game Changer does, and Commander decks by bracket shows what comes next.
Frequently asked questions
How many Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander decks are there?
Two: Blight Curse (black, red and green), led by Auntie Ool, Cursewretch, and Dance of the Elements (all five colours), led by Ashling, the Limitless. Both released on January 23, 2026.
Where are the full Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander decklists?
On our precon pages: Blight Curse and Dance of the Elements, each with all 100 cards by type, the counts and the bracket reading, ready to copy into a deck of your own.
What bracket are the Lorwyn Eclipsed precons?
Our bracket checker reads both as Bracket 2 (Core), with no Game Changers, against the Game Changers list of February 9, 2026. That's a reading of the cards alone; the bracket you declare also covers intent and speed, as What are Commander brackets? explains.
What does blight do in MTG?
To blight N means to put N -1/-1 counters on a creature you control (Comprehensive Rules 701.68a). All of the counters go on one creature, that creature doesn't need the toughness to survive them, and if you control no creature, you can't blight (701.68b).
Why can Ashling, the Limitless lead a five-colour deck?
Because colour identity counts every mana symbol in a card's mana cost and rules text (Comprehensive Rules 903.4). Ashling costs {2}{R}, but her token clause asks for {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, so her identity is all five colours.
Who publishes this guide?
Mana Grove is a free MTG deck builder for Commander, built in Canada. It comes with an AI deck assistant and card search by effect. No ads, ever. The company behind it is The Mana Grove Trading Cards Ltd. The About page explains how our guides are made and checked.
Sources
- "Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander Decklists", magic.wizards.com, published January 6, 2026: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/lorwyn-eclipsed-commander-decklists. Read on October 26, 2026. The two decks, their commanders, the box contents, the January 23, 2026 release and the one-line pitch for the two decks.
- "Lorwyn Eclipsed Release Notes", magic.wizards.com, published January 9, 2026: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/lorwyn-eclipsed-release-notes. Read on October 26, 2026. The ECL and ECC set codes and their formats, blight, and the return of evoke.
- Mana Grove precon pages, read on October 26, 2026: Blight Curse and Dance of the Elements. Each list, its card-type counts, average mana value, ramp and card-draw readings and bracket reading, against the Game Changers list of February 9, 2026.
- Mana Grove precon statistics, as published in our 2026 precon ranking, read on October 26, 2026: Dance of the Elements' sixteen cards at mana value six or more and the highest average mana value of the eleven ranked decks.
- Mana Grove card database, read on October 26, 2026: the mana cost, type line, power and toughness, rules text, colour identity and rulings of every card named above, and the set Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander, code ECC. Cross-checked against MTGJSON v5, set ECC: https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/ECC.json.
- Comprehensive Rules, effective September 25, 2026: https://magic.wizards.com/en/rules. Read on October 26, 2026. Rules 603.2c (repeated triggers), 701.68a and 701.68b (blight), 702.21a (ward), 702.74a (evoke), 702.116a (myriad), 903.4 (colour identity) and 903.5a, 903.5b and 903.5c (deck construction).
This guide is updated when either deck's bracket reading or our precon pages change. The date at the top is the last revision.
