Welcome back everyone to another cube! Named after my local play group this peasant cube has turned into my baby and is my primary cube focus.

There are many different ways to go about building any style cube even with the restriction of commons and uncommons already set in place. While some powerful cards like Sylvan Library and Skull Clamp fit the peasant restriction I decided to exclude cards like these to reduce the power-ceiling and hopefully let pockets of synergy shine through more than an individual card's power level.

With peasant cubes often the removal outshine the threats. While that is still present here I push to power down the removal. I stray away from efficient black removal like Cut Down and Heartless Act for slightly chunkier removal such as Withering Torment and Fell. I do recognize the hypocrisy though because I can’t bring myself to cut power outliers like Swords to Plowshares or Lightning Bolt. These are far above the rest of the removal suite but are iconic enough to earn their keep.

When designing a cube it’s hard to avoid thinking about what each color pair does. Some colors combinations like Rakdos have obvious sacrifice synergies, conversely the Simic archetype isn't as in your face. While I still have broad archetypes for each color pair I focus more on packages of cards for a deck.

W Blink and aggressive creatures
U Flyers and counter spells for tempo plays
B Graveyard shenanigans lots of removal on a stick
R Aggressive creatures and flexible burn
G Ramp with big creatures and can be aggressivish

WU: Blink/Flyers

WB: BnA Piles/Midrange

WR: Go wide/Agro

WG: Support the other colors Ramp/Tokens

UB: Control

UR: Tempo

UG: Support the other colors Flash/Ramp

BR: Sac

BG: Graveyard/Rock

RG: stomp/agro

The cube breaks singleton in a couple ways, first is with 3 copies each of the mono colored gates from Baulder's Gate. I decided to include these as my primary mana fixing for their flexibility as well as support its own archetype. I enjoy the draft pattern of the gates being reasonable fixing picks as well as key pieces for its own deck. The Gates deck can play an aggressive inevitable game plan with cards like Basilisk Gate or Glaive of the Guildpact. Note included 2 copies of Basilisk Gate to bolster the deck.

Secondly if you draft Squadron Hawk you'll receive 2 additional copies after the draft. They came as three.