Hope Estheim

Hope Estheim turns your life gain into direct mill, making him a sneaky mill commander hiding in a lifegain shell. Your game plan is straightforward: gain life efficiently each turn, and Hope will naturally mill your opponents out. The beauty here is that lifegain synergies are abundant and well-supported in blue-white, so you're not building around a weird constraint—you're just doing what the colors naturally do while Hope punishes everyone else for it.

Your deck wants low-cost lifegain sources that generate value: fetchlands, creatures like Soul Warden or Stitcher's Supplier, and spells that double down on gaining life while advancing your board. Cards that gain life multiple times per turn are especially powerful since Hope triggers once at end step with the total. You'll also want protective elements since Hope is small and vulnerable; blue-white has plenty of board wipes and counterspells to control the table while you mill slowly and steadily. The win is patient but inevitable—mill everyone to zero cards in library while staying healthy.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.