Hi! Welcome to my Pauper cube! Heavily inspired by thepaupercube.com and the associated discord, I always wanted to make a cube while thoroughly enjoying the pauper format. Thus, my mutation was born!
Pauper Cube tends to be a relatively flat power level, highly synergistic format. The best decks are ones that have a clear gameplan of what they are trying to accomplish each game and are able to execute it on a consistent basis. This can take the shape of killing your opponent on turn 4 with Mono Red, making infinite mana in UWR Blink shells, grinding your opponent out of resources with UB Control decks, or ramping and casting above rate creatures in all of the G decks. I hope you will find that there's a little bit of everything and any archetype can work with a well-executed draft. I've included a breakdown of color pairs/archetypes below:
2 Color Archetypes:
: Blink
: Control/Spells
: Aristocrats Aggro
: Ramp
: +1/+1 Counter Midrange
: Midrange/Drain 1
: Spells
: Sacrifice/Recursive Midrange
: Go Wide Aggro
: Good Stuff/Tempo
3 Color Archetypes:
Esper: Blink
Grixis: Spells/Affinity
Jund: Tokens/Aristocrats
Naya: Go Wide or Go Big
Bant: Midrange/Blink
Abzan: +1/+1 Counters
Jeskai: Blink/Go Wide
Sultai: Graveyard Matters (Spells and Creatures)
Mardu: Aristocrats Aggro
Temur: Ramp - Big spells and Big Creatures
There are also a number of excellent build around cards! I've included a few of the "hidden" archetypes I've built the cube around below:
Grixis Affinity - We get access to all the tools that make the Affinity decks good in pauper. We have the good 7 drops Myr Enforcer and his Salamander friend Sojourner's Companion, Bridges, Draw 2s like Thoughtcast and Deadly Dispute. The challenge is the set up.
Foundry Affinity - A subset of the artifacts archetype. This shell relies on Golem Foundry, which you should be trying to support with a lot of "eggs" pieces such as Lembas, Wizard's Rockets, Prophetic Prism, etc.
UGx Teachings - Deck is inspired by the "Ephemerate Tron" shells. Draft Mystical Teachings + cards like Moment's Peace or Tangle to stall until your engines are online. Need some sort of finisher, whether that's Mulldrifter beatdowns or Peregrine Drake combo finishes.