MTG Salvation

I'm new to cube building, pauper cube looks really fun, as most the cards are under $1. I'm looking for the bread and butter cards of pauper cubes I should should have in mine. What do you guys recommend having in there

I don't think a single post could sufficiently answer this question if you are looking for specific cards. I would suggest you look at the cube lists from various people on this site and from cubetutor to get an idea of what cards are popular for pauper cubes.

You should look at cubes. You can find them in the signatures of users on this forum and on cubetutor.com. But, here I made a list of the most basic most important cards just for you

There's also this list

http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/493

Which admittedly has problems but it's an aggregate list from all pauper cubes on cubetutor. If peasant's list is any guide then there are lots of missing great cards and overrated cards there, but it's a start.

List is mostly good. Chain Lightning is not a $1 card though. And it's missing Hymn to Tourach, I consider it key

There's so many good burn spells that chain lightning isn't really worth it. There's a sorcery speed 4 damage to a creature spell from ROE and lots of 2 mana and 3 mana instant burn spells. Also chain lightning has this really random drawback against red decks. No need to "splurge" on it.

Oh yeah my bad I blanked on the $1 bit. Yeah chain lightning isn't really unique or important or anything especially for its relatively massive price tag.

I think rancor may also be more than $1 but it's probably worth it, it's a pretty crazy card.

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You should look at cubes. You can find them in the signatures of users on this forum and on cubetutor.com. But, here I made a list of the most basic most important cards just for you

• steppe lynx
  
• gideon's lawkeeper
  
• goldmeadow harrier
  
• youthful knight
  
• stormfront pegasus
  
• topan freeblade
  
• syndic of tithes
  
• soltari trooper
  
• sandsteppe outcast
  
• burrenton bombardier
  
• master of diversion
  
• kor hookmaster
  
• kor sanctifiers
  
• coalition honor guard
  
• seraph of dawn
  
• custodi squire
  
• sunlance
  
• bonds of faith
  
• journey to nowhere
  
• pacifism
  
• oblivion ring
  
• recumbent bliss
  
• faith's fetters

also guardian of the guildpact but I don't use him because he's very uninteractive

• cloudfin raptor
  
• wingcrafter
  
• carnivorous death-parrot
  
• looter il-kor
  
• merfolk looter
  
• thought courier
  
• vaporkin
  
• welkin tern
  
• omenspeaker
  
• eldrazi skyspawner
  
• man-o'-war
  
• calcite snapper
  
• sea-gate oracle
  
• mist raven
  
• shimmering glasskite
  
• mulldrifter
  
• prescient chimera
  
• benthic giant
  
• preordain
  
• narcolepsy
  
• counterspell
  
• miscalculation
  
• repulse
  
• exclude
  
• compulsive research
  
• foresee
  
• deep analysis
  
• repeal
  
• condescend

• carnophage
  
• vampire lacerator
  
• typhoid rats
  
• pharika's chosen
  
• basilica screecher
  
• dauthi horror
  
• hand of silumgar
  
• nezumi cutthroat
  
• phyrexian rager
  
• dead reveler
  
• liliana's specter
  
• chittering rats
  
• faceless butcher
  
• gray merchant of asphodel
  
• predatory nightstalker
  
• warren pilferers
  
• snuff out
  
• dead weight
  
• vendettta
  
• doom blade
  
• terror
  
• stab wound
  
• ashes to ashes
  
• read the bones
  
• mark of the vampire
  
• death denied

• goblin fireslinger
  
• gore-house chainwalker
  
• borderland marauder
  
• fireslinger
  
• plated geopede
  
• ashmouth hound
  
• torch fiend
  
• splatter thug
  
• blood ogre
  
• ghirapur gearcrafter
  
• ghitu slinger
  
• manic vandal
  
• boggart brute
  
• goblin heelcutter
  
• flurry of horns
  
• lightning bolt
  
• firebolt
  
• flame slash
  
• chain lightning
  
• incinerate
  
• searing spear
  
• lightning strike
  
• arc lightning
  
• searing blaze
  
• brimstone volley
  
• magma burst
  
• pyrotechnics
  
• fireball

• arbor elf
  
• llanowar elves
  
• fyndhorn elves
  
• elvish mystic
  
• basking rootwalla
  
• jungle lion
  
• darkthicket wolf
  
• mire boa
  
• river boa
  
• snapping gnarlid
  
• leafcrown dryad
  
• wild mongrel
  
• trusted forcemage
  
• hungry spriggan
  
• nessian courser
  
• centaur courser
  
• borderland ranger
  
• civic wayfinder
  
• blastoderm
  
• penumbra spider
  
• primal huntbeast
  
• wickerbough elder
  
• nessian asp
  
• sentinel spider
  
• rancor
  
• giant growth
  
• groundswell
  
• predator's strike
  
• epic confrontation
  
• feral invocation
  
• moldervine cloak

• azorius chancery
  
• dimir aqueduct
  
• rakdos carnarium
  
• gruul turf
  
• selesnya sanctuary
  
• orzhov basilica
  
• izzet boilerworks
  
• simic growth chamber
  
• golgari rot farm
  
• boros garrison
  
• bonesplitter
  
• sylvok lifestaff
  
• copper carapace
  
• vault skirge
  
• porcelain legionnaire
  
• vulshok morningstar
  
• perilous myr
  
• prophetic prism
  
• prismatic lens
  
• cathodion
  
• gathan raiders
  
• pristine talisman
  
• serrated arrows
  
• opaline bracers
  
• pith driller
  
• slash panther
  
• mutagenic growth
  
• curse of chains
  
• deft duelist
  
• agony warp
  
• blightning
  
• kird ape
  
• branching bolt
  
• scuzzback marauders
  
• armadillo cloak
  
• kingpin's pet
  
• pillory of the sleepless
  
• putrid leech
  
• shambleshark
  
• jilt
  
• wojek halberdiers
  
• wild nacatl
  
• sewn-eye drake

Thanks guys, im going to order some of these now

I recommend all commons I use in my cube(s)