Hope Estheim | Power on a Budget by user8293524

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Hope Estheim is a lifegain-mill commander: every point of life gained in a turn becomes mill at your end step. The deck floods the board with small lifegain creatures and enchantments, then uses burst spells like Sphinx's Revelation and Sanguine Sacrament to spike life totals. The primary finish is a two-card engine: Drogskol Reaver's lifelink draws a card on each life gain, and Shabraz, the Skyshark turns each draw into more life, creating a loop that can be stopped with Suspend or Distinguished Conjurer after gaining arbitrarily large life. Hope then mills all opponents out. Secondary paths include Evra, Halcyon Witness one-shots and Nykthos Paragon combat beats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Angel of Vitality
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashes of the Abhorrent
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Basilica Guards
  • 1 Battle Menu
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Congregate
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Dazzling Angel
  • 1 Distinguished Conjurer
  • 1 Divine Offering
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Eriette's Lullaby
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evra, Halcyon Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fascination
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Impassioned Orator
  • 1 Invoke the Divine
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Ivory Tower
  • 1 Keep Safe
  • 1 Knight of Dawn's Light
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Lifecreed Duo
  • 1 Light of Hope
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Lucky Offering
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nykthos Paragon
  • 1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
  • 1 Peach Garden Oath
  • 20 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Rest for the Weary
  • 1 Revitalize
  • 1 Sanctify
  • 1 Sanguine Sacrament
  • 1 Shabraz, the Skyshark
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Solemn Offering
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sphinx of the Revelation
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Star Compass
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Sunbond
  • 1 Suspend
  • 1 Syndic of Tithes
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Unable to Scream
  • 1 War Report
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace