lifegain of death by user8100241

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Hope Estheim is a UW lifegain-mill deck that turns life gain into mandatory opponent milling at each end step. The primary plan is to gain large chunks of life, double that life with effects like Rhox Faithmender and Boon Reflection, then let Hope's end-step trigger mill opponents out. Secondary paths include Felidar Sovereign's life-total win, commander damage from Evra or Serra Ascendant, and a dedicated mill package with Bruvac, Traumatize, and Riverchurn Monument. The commander is the main mill vector, but the deck can also win through life-gain payoffs and mill spells without her.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Ajani, Strength of the Pride
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
  • 1 Celestine, the Living Saint
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Congregate
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Honor the Fallen
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Invoke the Divine
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Knight of Dawn's Light
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Profane Memento
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Resplendent Angel
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Revitalize
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riot Control
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sanguine Sacrament
  • 1 Sejiri Refuge
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace
  • 1 Wizard's Staff