Hope to Mill by user5844112

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Hope Estheim is a lifegain payoff and end-step finisher in a UW control shell. The deck wins by making Hope's trigger lethal: Soul Warden and Soul's Attendant provide early life, Boon Reflection and Rhox Faithmender double all gains, and Beacon of Immortality provides the one-turn burst that mills all three opponents. Backup mill comes from Bruvac, The Water Crystal, Fractured Sanity, and Psychic Corrosion. Gogo, Master of Mimicry functions as a hidden commander, copying Hope's trigger with Strionic Resonator and Delney for a mass-mill turn. Taxes and counters keep the table slow until the commander's trigger resolves.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Angel of Vitality
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Congregate
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithful Mending
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Honor the Fallen
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wizard's Staff