Hope by NDG_Chronic

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Hope Estheim is a lifegain-mill commander: every point of life gained in a turn becomes a point of mill for each opponent at end step. The deck's primary plan is to stack life-gain doublers (Rhox Faithmender, Boon Reflection, The Wind Crystal) with Will, Scion of Peace as a hidden commander, who discounts W/U spells after a life-gain turn, enabling large Sphinx's Revelation and Sanguine Sacrament lines. Court of Cunning and direct mill spells provide a backup clock. Secondary wins are Felidar Sovereign and Test of Endurance once life crosses 40 or 50. Interaction is dense, but the win is assembly-oriented rather than combo-fast.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Ajani's Pridemate
  • 1 Angel of Vitality
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Congregate
  • 1 Cosmos Elixir
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Delusions of Mediocrity
  • 1 Deputy of Detention
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sanguine Sacrament
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Sphinx of the Revelation
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Spider-Woman, Stunning Savior
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul