Hope "I'm gonna win" Estheim by goobs

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Hope Estheim life-gain mill deck that converts every point of life gained into library destruction. Hope's end-step trigger mills each opponent for the life gained that turn, and the 99 is packed with life doublers (Boon Reflection, Rhox Faithmender, Alhammarret's Archive, The Wind Crystal), passive gain engines, and mill multipliers (Bruvac the Grandiloquent, The Water Crystal, Fraying Sanity). Parallel win paths include the pure life-total locks Felidar Sovereign and Test of Endurance, a high-life Aetherflux Reservoir finish, and large one-shot mill spells such as kicked Maddening Cacophony and Space-Time Anomaly. The deck plays a patient midgame-ramp, tax, and pillowfort-then snowballs a single large gain turn into a table-wide mill kill or an upkeep win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ajani, Strength of the Pride
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Congregate
  • 1 Cosmos Elixir
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Honor the Fallen
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shattered Acolyte
  • 1 Shimmering Grotto
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul