Hope Draw Mill (Build in progress) by user5960083

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Azorius life-gain-and-mill control deck helmed by Hope Estheim, whose end-step trigger mills each opponent for the life you gained that turn. The entire deck is built to supercharge that number: a dense stack of life-gain doublers (Rhox Faithmender, Boon Reflection, Doctor Strange, Surgeon, Angel of Vitality, Leyline of Hope, The Wind Crystal, Alhammarret's Archive) turns incidental lifegain triggers from Soul Warden-class creatures into massive mill chunks. Secondary and tertiary win conditions give the deck real inevitability: Approach of the Second Sun, Test of Endurance at 50 life, the The Book of Exalted Deeds + Angel lock, and the Bruvac the Grandiloquent + kicked Maddening Cacophony mill-out. A pillowfort of Ghostly Prison/Propaganda plus five counterspells and three symmetric wipes keeps the table at bay while the mill clock runs.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angel of Vitality
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Auriok Champion
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Celestial Colonnade
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Congregate
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crested Sunmare
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Doctor Strange, Surgeon
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Famished Paladin
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resplendent Angel
  • 1 Resplendent Mentor
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The Book of Exalted Deeds
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 War Report
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Words of Worship
  • 1 Wrath of God