Hope Estheim

Mill has almost always lived in blue as a resource-denial plan you build a whole deck around: chip away at libraries and race the clock before the opponent draws out. This turns that plan sideways by tying it to lifegain, a resource white and blue accumulate as a side effect of doing other things. Every point of life gained across your turn becomes a card scraped off each opponent's deck at your end step, which means the mill total scales with lifelink combat, incidental gain from spells, and any repeatable drain you can trigger before the end step resolves. A 2/2 lifelink body already nudges the counter upward each combat, but the payoff is the conversion it performs: lifegain, normally the stall-and-grind axis, becomes the pressure on an opponent's library. The timing is the constraint that shapes how you play it. Because the trigger counts only what you gained during your own turn, the mill number rewards front-loading everything into a single window: attack with lifelinkers, resolve your gain triggers, and let it all total into one end-step deck-shave, rather than dribbling life out across a full turn cycle where half of it never counts. It is a small creature asking a specific question: how much life can you bank in one turn, and would you like that translated into decking someone out?