This cube combines Pauper Commander Deckbuilding Rules with Commander Legends Drafting Rules.

Pauper Commander Resources:

https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Pauper_Commander
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/pauper-edh-primer/

Commander Legends Rules:

https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Commander_Legends#Drafting_rules

Deckbuilding rules for this cube that differ from regular Commander/Brawl

• You have an uncommon creature (or planeswalker) designated as your commander. https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/paupercommanderlegends?f=rarity%3Duncommon
• Your deck must contain 59 cards in your mainboard. 58 if you have two commanders with partner. The mainboard is all commons.
• Each player starts off with 30 life
• A player dies after taking 16 damage from a single commander
• Special Unique Cube Rule: All mono-colored or colorless uncommons have keyword: "partner"; and all multi-colored uncommons have keyword: "partner with monocolored or colorless". That is, you can have any mono-colored/colorless partnered with any other commander so you can always have two commanders, but you can't have two multi-colored commanders.

Drafting Rules (From Commander Legends)

• Each pack is 20 cards
• Each pack has 2 commanders seeded. (Commander Legends has 2 uncommon slots but the rare slot is often a legendary)
• Each pick is two cards
• Two copies of The Prismatic Piper are available to each player after the draft if they need draft the necessary commanders to support their drafted pile.

Primary Themes

• Artifacts and Equipment
• Enchantments and Auras
• Graveyard (Cycling/Discard/Delirium/Reanimate etc)
• Tokens (Creatures/Clue/Food/Blood/Treasures)
• +1/+1 Counters

Minor Themes

• ETB
• Spells Matter
• Flying
• Death Triggers
• Sacrifice

Design Philosophies General

• The cube currently has 720 commons distributed across
  • 30 multicolored
  • 100 in each color
  • 100 colorless (excluding lands)
  • 90 lands
• In the future looking expand to 816 commons
  • (#Commons in pack * #of packs per player * #players at table) * #of tables to support
  • => (18 * 3 * 8) * 2 = 864
  • Each will have a 50% chance of being seen and adds to the Commander feel

The Commanders

• There are currently 141 Commands distributed across
  • 2 Five-colour Commanders
  • 10 Tri-Colour Commanders
  • 50 Two-Colour Commanders
  • 15 Commanders in each colour
  • 2 Colourless Commanders

Staples

• Each card focuses on one or more themes (with the exception of "staples")
• Each color (except colorless) has 10 "staples". These staples may or may not be relevant to a theme in the cube. A staple is a card that is either on the Commander or Pauper banlist or a frequently occuring card in Commander or Pauper decks (from MTG Top 8). Examples include Oblivion Ring, Fall From Favor, Thorn of the Black Rose, Lightning Bolt, Reap and Sow, Arcane Signet. This is to 1) give flexibility 2) a Commander/Pauper feel to the cube and 3) provide support cards that aren't too narrow.
• Staples can be viewed by the following filter: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/paupercommanderlegends?f=tag%3A%22Staple%22
• With the exception of staples, no other card should be "Strictly Better" than another. eg:
  • Resurrection is not in the cube as Late to Dinner is strictly better.
  • Negate and Nullify are both in the cube even though Counterspell is strictly better. This is because Counterspell is a blue staple.
  • TODO: Replace Sisay's Ring as Everflowing chalice is strictly better.

Removal

The lack of sweepers and heavy reliance on commanders makes targeted removal a must. Targeted removal is also the best way to deal with infinite combo decks.

• With this in mind, removal for the colors have to have some relevance to the cube themes (Except Staple Cards like Flame slash and Murder)
  • White: Pacifism and Exile Enchantments/Auras. (Suppression Bonds). Disenchant effects that hit the many "Enchment Creatures" and "Artifact Creatures" (Forsake the Worldly)
  • Blue: Auras that reduce the effectiveness of creatures (Bubble Snare). The ones that shut down abilities are even better (Frogify). Counter spells (Deny the Divine)
  • Black: Auras and Kills spells (Mire's Grasp and Deadly Dispute)
  • Red: Auras and Damage Spells (Iroas's Blessing and Galvanic Blast)
  • Green: Auras and +1/+1 Counters (Warbriar Blessing and Outmuscle)
• Because Commanders can be replayed, pacifism effects increase in value, better if they shut down abilities
• Because of the Graveyard theme, cards that exile increase in value

Disrupting Removal

Because aura based removal can completely shutdown a commander Reprobation, Tamiyo's Compleation, Lignify, but is too important to theme to cut, there has to be a way to counter or disrupt

• Disenchant and Naturalize effects are a natural answer. They are extra powerful in the cube because of the many "Enchantment"/"Artifact" Creatures
• Colour based strategies
  • White: Disenchant, Protection and Flicker effects (Dispeller's Capsule, Feat of Resistance and Ephemerate)
  • Blue: Counterspell, Bounce and Flicker ((Negate, Mist Raven, Ghostly Flicker
  • Black: Sacrifice and Kill Spells (Soulreaper of Mogis, Feed the Swarm or if you're desperate... Murder)
  • Red: Red is very poor at dealing with Enchantments (Part of it's colour pie identity). Best to rely on sacrifice effects or colourless solutions (Or another colour) (Final Flare or Universal Solvent)
  • Green: Naturalize effects (Fade into Antiquity)

Card Aesthetics

• Black bordered cards only with standard art for the commons to provide aesthetic consistency
• Commanders should use an alternate art treatment where possible to stand out
• No foils as they tend curl
• Card sleeves
  • Black for Commons
  • Gold for Commanders
  • Red for The Prismatic Piper tokens
  • Clear for regular tokens (some tokens are double sided)