Audrey by NotYourAngel

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Hope Estheim leads a hybrid lifegain and mill deck that translates steady life acquisition directly into opponent library depletion. The primary game plan deploys low-cost lifegain triggers like Soul Warden, Authority of the Consuls, and lifelink attackers to fuel Hope Estheim's end-step mill trigger each turn. As life totals swell, the deck transitions into lethal mill swings using doublers such as Bruvac the Grandiloquent, The Wind Crystal, and Maddening Cacophony, or single-shot bursts like Space-Time Anomaly. Secondary win conditions include alternate victory through Test of Endurance, overwhelming board presence with Archangel of Thune, and lethal direct damage via Aetherflux Reservoir.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ajani's Pridemate
  • 1 Angel of Vitality
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Ashes of the Abhorrent
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cat Collector
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dreamborn Muse
  • 1 Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Healer's Hawk
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Jace's Phantasm
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lyra Dawnbringer
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Profane Memento
  • 1 Purity
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Resplendent Angel
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Riddlekeeper
  • 1 Righteous Valkyrie
  • 1 Riot Control
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sanctify
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Speaker of the Heavens
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Voice of the Blessed
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer