Welcome to my Pauper Cube! This labor of love began as a shoebox full of the 360 least terrible Commons I had laying around, and like a Cloudfin Raptor it evolved into its current state of 420 blinged-out Pauper staples. The cube is singleton and restricted to cards with at least one printing at Common rarity.

2-Color Archetype Themes

Flicker
Control
Aristocrats
Aggro
+1/+1 Counters
Midrange
Counterburn
Recursion
Go Wide
Tempo

Notable Inclusions

• Cards banned in constructed Pauper format: Bonder's Ornament, Cloud of Faeries, Empty the Warrens, Frantic Search, Hymn to Tourach, Monastery Swiftspear, Mystic Sanctuary, Peregrine Drake, Prophetic Prism, Treasure Cruise
• The Landscape cycle of 10 tri-color Cycling lands from Modern Horizons 3

Some bombs to look out for:

Battle Screech, Guardian of the Guildpact, Prismatic Strands
Counterspell, Mulldrifter, Tolarian Terror
Cast Down, Gurmag Angler, Snuff Out
Faithless Looting, Goblin Bushwhacker, Lightning Bolt
Rancor, Sprout Swarm, Basking Broodscale
Ashnod's Altar, Flayer Husk, Ulamog's Crusher

Because tokens are prevalent in almost every archetype, sweepers should be highly valued: Arms of Hadar, Breath Weapon, Crypt Rats, Drown in Sorrow, Fiery Cannonade, Fireball, Pestilence, Sulfurous Blast

Some fun combos available:

Guardian of the Guildpact + [any sweeper]
Mystic Sanctuary + Deprive
Exhume + [any creature with Cycling or Channel]
Kiln Fiend + [spells] + Fling or Temur Battle Rage
Ivy Lane Denizen + [any creature with Persist] + [any sacrifice outlet]
Safehold Elite + Ashnod's Altar + Ivy Lane Denizen combo (infinite mana)
Hissing Iguanar + Ivy Lane Denizen combo (infinite damage)
Falkenrath Noble + Ivy Lane Denizen combo (infinite life gain/drain)
Ghostly Flicker + Archaeomancer or Ardent Elementalist
Tethmos High Priest + Mogg War Marshal
Viridian Longbow + [any creature with Deathtouch]

Combo cards not found in this cube include: Midnight Guard, Presence of Gond, Devoted Druid, Essence Warden, Freed from the Real, Axebane Guardian, Karametra's Favor, Impact Tremors, Auramancer, Angelic Renewal, Sadistic Glee

Final note about Guardian of the Guildpact: In an effort to prevent this card from being more busted that it already is on its own, I have intentionally omitted cards like Armadillo Cloak and Gift of Orzhova, and included multi-colored removal options like Lawmage's Binding, Terminate, Branching Bolt, Captured by Lagacs, Pillory of the Sleepless, Unmake, Temporal Spring

Other Notable Exclusions

• All of the Monarch cards (Palace Sentinels, Fall from Favor, etc.)
• All of The Initiative cards (Aarakocra Sneak, Vicious Battlerager, etc.)
• Cards from Un-Sets (Carnivorous Death-Parrot, Squirrel Dealer, etc.)
• Kindred (tribal) creature synergies
• Affinity or artifacts-matter
• Land Destruction effects
• Snow permanents