Mill Your Life by user7272587

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Hope Estheim leads an Azorius lifegain and mill strategy that converts rapid bursts of life into massive library depletion. By establishing early lifegain triggers through creatures like Soul Warden and doublers like Rhox Faithmender, Hope forces each opponent to mill cards equal to your gained life on every end step. The deck accelerates this game plan using explosive burst spells like Illusions of Grandeur and Beacon of Immortality, or doubling mill output with Bruvac the Grandiloquent. If opponents resist mill strategies, the deck effortlessly pivots into alternate win conditions including Felidar Sovereign, Test of Endurance, Aetherflux Reservoir, or the infinite lifegain combo of Famished Paladin and Resplendent Mentor.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1 Ajani, Strength of the Pride
• 1 Alhammarret's Archive
• 1 Altar of the Brood
• 1 Angel of Destiny
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Auriok Champion
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Beacon of Immortality
• 1 Blind Obedience
• 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Cleric Class
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Congregate
• 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• 1 Doctor Strange, Surgeon
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Drogskol Reaver
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabricate
• 1 Famished Paladin
• 1 Felidar Sovereign
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Floodfarm Verge
• 1 Fractured Sanity
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Gemstone Caverns
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Heliod's Intervention
• 1 Hope Estheim
• 1 Illusions of Grandeur
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Maddening Cacophony
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Meticulous Archive
• 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mystic Gate
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Profane Memento
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Resplendent Mentor
• 1 Restoration Magic
• 1 Rhox Faithmender
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Riot Control
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Sea of Clouds
• 1 Serra Ascendant
• 3 Snow-Covered Island
• 3 Snow-Covered Plains
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Warden
• 1 Soul's Attendant
• 1 Space-Time Anomaly
• 1 Sphinx's Revelation
• 1 Suture Priest
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Test of Endurance
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The Water Crystal
• 1 The Wind Crystal
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Will, Scion of Peace
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wizard's Staff
• 1 Words of Wisdom
• 1 Y'shtola Rhul