Immortal Insanity - Max Power by user1046258

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This Azorius control deck converts life gain into rapid mill and alternate win conditions. Commanded by Hope Estheim, every point of life gained during your turn forces each opponent to mill that many cards at your end step. The deck pairs cheap lifegain triggers like Soul Warden, Guide of Souls, and Serra Ascendant with multipliers such as Rhox Faithmender, Boon Reflection, and The Wind Crystal to scale mill output dramatically. A robust blue-white control chassis—featuring Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, Farewell, and Cyclonic Rift—protects the board and stalls opposing plans. Card advantage engines like The One Ring and Rhystic Study maintain gas while building a massive life buffer. The deck closes games around Turn 7 via upkeep triggers from Felidar Sovereign or Test of Endurance, direct library depletion through Bruvac the Grandiloquent and Maddening Cacophony, or sustained mill attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Basilica Guards
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Loxodon Warhammer
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Crypt
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nykthos Paragon
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shabraz, the Skyshark
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sphinx of the Revelation
  • 1 Stone of Erech
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syndic of Tithes
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace
  • 1 Windswept Heath