Goals of the pauper cube:

1. Interactive gameplay
   • Card draw emphasized (etb draw creatures like phyrexian rager, powerful card draw spells like deep analysis)
   • Creature-based strategies with removal emphasized
   • Infinite combos do exist, but require 3+ pieces (ex: peregrine drake+ghostly flicker+archaeomancer+payoff
   • No "Broken"/un-interactive mechanics (affinity, monarch, initiative, etc)
2. Variety of viable strategies
   • Tokens (W/R/G)
   • Spells (U/R/g/w)
   • ETB (W/U/b/g)
   • Control (U/B/r)
   • Aggro (W/R)
   • Sacrifice (B/R/w)
   • Graveyard (B/G/u)
3. Nostalgic card choices
   • Classics like: Lightning Bolt, Preordain, llanowar elves
   • Powerful cards from old limited formats, like: gust walker, cloudkin seer organ hoarder
   • Infamous constructed-pauper inclusions, like kor skyfisher, gray merchant of asphodel, thermo-alchemist
4. Build-around mini-themes
   • Blitz kiln fiend, temur battle rage, lava dart
   • Storm galvanic relay, goblin anarchomancer, manamorphose, snake umbra + kessig flamebreather
   • Token combo wildfire elemental, Impact tremors, hordeling outburst
   • Ninjas moon-circuit hacker, faerie seer, ninja of the deep hours
   • ETB loops ghostly flicker or ephemerate + archaeomancer or ardent elementalist
   • Ramp Imposing Altisaur, Arbor Elf, Utopia Sprawl