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Hope Estheim

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {W}{U} · Blue/White commander

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, each opponent mills X cards, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

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What Hope Estheim actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · end_stepAt the beginning of your end step, each opponent mills X cards, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
• Keyword · lifelinklifelink

What a Hope Estheim deck needs

Plays as lifegain. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• opponent-mill spells and permanents, and mill payoffs (their library is the win)
• repeatable lifegain — lifelink, gain-life triggers and Food (every life gained is its trigger)

The Hope Estheim deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 20× Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition
• 19× Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Hope Estheim

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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