Hope "I'm gonna win" Estheim by goobs

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius lifegain, mill, and stax control deck commanded by Hope Estheim. The primary strategy focuses on establishing early asymmetric tax pieces such as Drannith Magistrate, Blind Obedience, and Grand Arbiter Augustin IV to hinder opposing tempo while building an incremental lifegain engine. Hope Estheim turns every point of life gained into symmetric library milling against all opponents at each of your end steps. The deck smoothly transitions into lethal mid-game finishes around Turn 6 through massive life-doubling spells like Beacon of Immortality, upkeep win conditions like Felidar Sovereign and Test of Endurance, or lethal mill synergies combining Bruvac the Grandiloquent with kicked Maddening Cacophony. A robust protection suite featuring Grand Abolisher, Teferi, Time Raveler, and Dovin's Veto ensures critical spells resolve cleanly. While lacking cheap instant creature removal, its resilient combination of stax, lifegain buffer, and redundant alternate win conditions provides formidable control and closing speed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ajani, Strength of the Pride
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Congregate
  • 1 Cosmos Elixir
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 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 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shattered Acolyte
  • 1 Shimmering Grotto
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 Thalia, the Survivor
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul