Hope To Pillow Fort by OmarAlvarenga

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Azorius deck is a lifegain-mill hybrid. Hope Estheim converts life gained each turn into an end-step mill, and the deck amplifies that with Soul Warden/Auriok Champion, Rhox Faithmender, Alhammarret's Archive, Boon Reflection, and The Wind Crystal. The primary kill is library depletion: Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles a kicked Maddening Cacophony to remove every opponent's library. Secondary routes include The Mindskinner's unblockable combat mill, Aetherflux Reservoir's life payoff, and Approach of the Second Sun. Pillow-fort pieces and board wipes buy time; Grand Abolisher and counterspells protect the combo turn. The hidden build-around is Bruvac, with The Mindskinner as an alternate finisher.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Auriok Champion
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drowned Secrets
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mind Sculpt
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sanguine Sacrament
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer