You will still probably play the mill cards that force people to mill half of their library, sure, but youre actually using those to make your main win condition gaining life work with Hope Estheim
Ramp In addition to a standard ramp package of Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and a few other mana rocks, Cloud, Midgar Mercenary has a handful of Equipments that he can make exceptionally effective
A key release came in 2013 with the release of Modern Masters, the first set reprint set released for the Modern format and gave birth to the Masters reprint series, and in 2019 with Modern Horizons, which was the first to bring mechanically new cards that skipped Standard legality
Springbloom Druid provides a similar effect, enabling explosive turns where creatures like Sazh's Chocobo and Bristly Bill, Spine Sower grow rapidly
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Its not an effective strategy by itself, but because the main methods of gaining life in this deck are passive, it allows us to focus on other things, such as casting removal spells, rather than proactively playing cards to gain us life (e.g