Hope (Budget) by MaierCL

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a slow, fair Azorius lifegain-mill deck built entirely around Hope Estheim's end-step trigger. The plan is to accrue life through "soul sister" effects and lifegain instants, multiply those gains with Rhox Faithmender, Doctor Strange, Surgeon, and The Wind Crystal, then convert a single turn's life gain into a massive mill for every opponent. Sphinx's Revelation, Sanguine Sacrament, and Righteous Confluence provide the burst needed to turn a comfortable life total into a real clock. The deck also carries backup mill in Space-Time Anomaly and The Water Crystal, plus a combat fallback of evasive lifelinkers like Drogskol Reaver and Ancestor Dragon. It has no infinite combos and no tutors, so every game is a grind toward the commander's drain-mill payoff.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Abuna's Chant
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerial Assault
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Ajani's Mantra
  • 1 Ajani's Welcome
  • 1 Ancestor Dragon
  • 1 Angel's Mercy
  • 1 Apothecary Initiate
  • 1 Arachne, Psionic Weaver
  • 1 Ashes of the Abhorrent
  • 1 Aunt May
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Avengers Hangar
  • 1 Azorius Charm
  • 1 Captain America, Living Legend
  • 1 Chaplain's Blessing
  • 1 Combat Tutorial
  • 1 Dawnhart Geist
  • 1 Dazzling Angel
  • 1 Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition
  • 1 Doctor Strange, Surgeon
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Emissary of Hope
  • 1 Exile
  • 1 Ghost-Lit Redeemer
  • 1 Goldberry, River-Daughter
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Inspiring Overseer
  • 1 Invoke the Divine
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kabira Crossroads
  • 1 Kami of False Hope
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Light of Hope
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Minwu, White Mage
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nexus Mentality
  • 1 Paradise Plume
  • 1 Peace of Mind
  • 22 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Relm's Sketching
  • 1 Rest in Peace
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Revitalize
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Righteous Confluence
  • 1 Ritual of Rejuvenation
  • 1 Sanctify
  • 1 Sanguine Sacrament
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Silverstrike
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Offering
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soulmender
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Staff of the Sun Magus
  • 1 Sunbond
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 War Report
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace