Will/Hope

Format: Commander

Commander: Will, Scion of Peace

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a UW life-gain/mill deck helmed by Will, Scion of Peace, whose activated ability discounts every white and blue spell you cast by the amount of life gained that turn. The deck floods the board with cheap ETB life-gain creatures (Soul Warden, Impassioned Orator, Hinterland Sanctifier) and then multiplies that life with Rhox Faithmender, The Wind Crystal, Cleric Class, and Leyline of Hope, turning a huge life total into a massive mana discount. The primary win condition is mill: Hope Estheim mills each opponent for the life you gained each end step, backed by Maddening Cacophony, Cut Your Losses, Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture, Psychic Corrosion, and Space-Time Anomaly. A secondary combat path exists through Angel of Destiny and a swarm of growing lifelinkers. The deck is a slow, value-dense engine that snowballs life into card advantage and mill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Ajani's Pridemate
  • 1 Ajani's Welcome
  • 1 Ajani, Strength of the Pride
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Angel of Destiny
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel Elspeth
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Case of the Uneaten Feast
  • 1 Cat Collector
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Cloudblazer
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Distinguished Conjurer
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elite Guardmage
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Excalibur II
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Healer's Hawk
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Impassioned Orator
  • 1 Inspiring Overseer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Kabira Crossroads
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Priest of Ancient Lore
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Speaker of the Heavens
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Steel Seraph
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Twinblade Paladin
  • 1 Voice of the Blessed
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul