Hope Estheim - Abandon All Hope by OmarAlvarenga

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Hope Estheim is a lifegain-to-mill commander who turns every point of life gained in a turn into table-wide mill at the end step. The deck builds around doubling both life gain and mill: Boon Reflection, Alhammarret's Archive, Rhox Faithmender, Bruvac, and Fraying Sanity turn one big swing (Beacon of Immortality, Sphinx's Revelation) into lethal mill. Secondary paths include Bruvac plus kicked Maddening Cacophony and the Drogskol Reaver/Shabraz infinite-draw loop with Psychic Corrosion. The commander can also win without being cast, but most games pivot on assembling the right multiplier before the first end-step trigger.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
  • 1 Celestine, the Living Saint
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Cloudblazer
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Delusions of Mediocrity
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Doctor Strange, Surgeon
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Elite Guardmage
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithful Mending
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kabira Crossroads
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Ojutai's Command
  • 1 Overrule
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Revitalize
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Righteous Confluence
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sanguine Sacrament
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sejiri Refuge
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shabraz, the Skyshark
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sphinx Mindbreaker
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Steel of the Godhead
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul