Jumpstart Commander
370 Card Pauper Commander Budget Vintage Cube
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This is a format that combines aspects of Jump-start and Commander. Each deck is 20 cards consisting of 8 lands, 1 commander, and 11 non-lands. The commanders are all the 30 uncommon commanders with Partner from Commander Legends. The decks are synergized around their commanders. The commander is the only uncommon and the rest of the decks is common (or at least pauper legal). Every commander is mono-colored so the decks are also mono-colored with no dual lands, or multi-colored cards. The only exception is Terramorphic Expanse and Evolving Wilds in the Toggo deck to enable some Landfall payoffs.
This format is intended to be very casual and beginner friendly. It will be perfect for 2-4 players but most of the time it will be played 1v1. Each player chooses two decks either at random or in some sort of draft. Players remove the two commanders and shuffle the rest of the decks together leaving them with 38 cards. Play proceeds as usual from there following the standard Partner commander rules.
This cube follows the singleton restriction and the Pauper Commander restrictions. I chose the Pauper restriction to lower my budget and to reduce card complexity. In addition to the pauper restriction, I'm also choosing to only play cards in the 2015+ card frame. This is to add consistency to the cards and have the packs appear more cohesive.
With the Pauper restriction, this cube will not be very powerful. However, as each deck is played against each other, it should still remain balanced and the games should still be close and exciting.
This cube focuses heavily on synergies within the packs based on their respective commanders. The variance comes not from the individual packs, which don't change, but rather the 435 different combinations of packs.
I'm revamping this cube to have the packs be 30 cards each instead of 20.
New baseline pack layout (this will change for each pack but this will be my starting point):
3x Interaction
11x Creatures (Including Commander)
3x “Flex” slots
11x Basic lands
1x Dual land
1x Tapped Mana Rock (ex: Marble Diamond))
Mainboard Changelist+22, -0
- Revolutionist
- Unexpected Windfall
- Gouged Zealot
- Mine Collapse
- Improvised Weaponry
- Plundering Barbarian
- You Come to the Gnoll Camp
- Chandra's Magmutt
- Faithless Salvaging
- Shock
- Unholy Heat
- Cancel
- Preordain
- Ice Cage
- Soulknife Spy
- You Find the Villains' Lair
- Charmed Sleep
- Foul Watcher
- Floodhound
- Burdened Aerialist
- Phantasmal Dreadmaw
- Hard Evidence