With over 60+ decks since June first, one Pauper combo has quietly been gaining traction among grinders and brewers alike: Spy Combo. While it might look like a pile of janky ramp creatures and draft chaff at first glance, don’t be fooled—this deck can win out of nowhere as early as turn 4 and is surprisingly resilient when built right. Today, we’re breaking down exactly how this graveyard-fueled machine works, why it’s popping up more often in leagues, and how to pilot it for maximum consistency. Let’s dive into the engine room of one of Pauper’s sneakiest win conditions.

Continuing our look at potential downshifts that could shake up the Pauper format, this time we're diving into green cards we’d love to see become commons. While black brings removal and recursion, green shines with value creatures, graveyard synergies, and combat tricks. Pauper doesn't often get exciting new tools from Standard sets, so most real format shakeups come from reprints or supplemental sets. With that in mind, here are ten green cards that could open up fresh archetypes, support existing ones, or simply make green more competitive across the board.

In Pauper, downshifts are one of the main ways the format evolves. Since we only play with commons, new Standard sets rarely shake things up unless a card gets reprinted at a lower rarity. But when a powerful uncommon finally becomes common, it can have a huge impact. Black is a color full of removal, graveyard value, and efficient creatures, but many of its best tools are still stuck at higher rarities. In this article, we’re counting down ten black cards we’d love to see downshifted to common. Let’s dive into them!

Paupergeddon Summer Edition in Lucca just wrapped up, and what a tournament it was! Over 500 players showed up for one of the largest Pauper events of the year, bringing everything from well-oiled meta decks to rogue brews with something to prove. Now that the dust has settled, we’ve taken a deep dive into the numbers. Which decks were the most popular? Which ones performed the best? And how has the meta changed since then? Let’s break it all down.

On March 31st, the Pauper Format Panel surprised the whole Pauper community by unbanning one of the most  Broken cards that is a Legacy Staple, and today, we’re diving into a full deck tech to show how this classic combo spell is making waves in Pauper once again.

Since the end of March, the Pauper format on MTGO has been going through some big changes. Aggro decks are doing great, card draw isn't as strong as it used to be, and even though a few unbanned cards got people talking, are they really making an impact? In this post, we’re going to look at how things have shifted based on MTGO Pauper League data—and what that means if you’re aiming for your next 5-0 run.

The Final Fantasy set is a great addition to Pauper because it’s a large set packed with new ideas and powerful commons. Since it introduces brand-new card types like Summons and mixes in classic Final Fantasy characters and items, it brings fresh strategies that didn’t exist before or updates previously existing ones.

I've always felt like some decks—like Golgari Gardens—stick around mostly because the format doesn’t have a natural predator for them. But what happens when the meta shifts and those old predators come back? That’s exactly what’s going on with Flicker Tron. Thanks to some recent unbans, it just got a serious power boost—and today, we are going over each card of the list and talk about its overall game plan, and of course, its sideboard plan, so you can win against the diverse Pauper meta. Let’s dive into it!