New Untitled Deck by flutterpie

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius lifegain into mill strategy led by Hope Estheim. You gain life with small creatures and enchantments, and Hope Estheim converts that life gain into mill at your end step. Doublers make the plan work: Bruvac the Grandiloquent and The Water Crystal double each mill, while The Wind Crystal and Leyline of Hope double your life gain so Hope Estheim mills more. The deck wins by grinding all three opponents out slowly, not by a fast combo. Secondary mill comes from permanents that trigger on their own - Psychic Corrosion, Teferi's Tutelage, Altar of the Brood, Hedron Crab, Worry Beads and Mindcrank - and from big one-shot spells like Space-Time Anomaly, Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture and Jace, the Perfected Mind. Lifegain payoffs such as Ajani's Pridemate, Aerith Gainsborough, Exemplar of Light and Twinblade Paladin grow into threats while you gain life. Hope Estheim costs only {W}{U} and is easy to recast, but the deck can still mill without him through its other engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Ajani's Pridemate
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Angel of Invention
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Attended Healer
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Guildmage
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Dazzling Angel
  • 1 Divine Resilience
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Griffin Aerie
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Ipnu Rivulet
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Kinscaer Sentry
  • 1 Leonardo, Cutting Edge
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Not on My Watch
  • 1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
  • 1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
  • 15 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Quintessential Katana
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Reroute Systems
  • 1 Revitalize
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Shadow Kin
  • 1 Shadowbringers
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Tandem Tactics
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Twinblade Paladin
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Witness Protection
  • 1 Worry Beads