Hi everyone in the PEDH community! My playgroup recently started getting into building pauper commander decks to give us some fresh deck building ideas and to see some new faces/spells on the board. We have built with budget restrictions before but never limited to all commons. I’d love for people to let me know if I’m missing anything that would help my deck out or if I am including anything that seems like a wasted slot.

My idea behind the deck is playing as many spells on opponents turns as possible and managing to use crackling drake in combat as my wincon. A friend has suggested I take the two shields out to put more instants in, but I feel like vigilance will help my strategy bunches. He also suggested I cut more creatures as well but I feel like they are all quite useful. He couldn’t even tell me which creatures he would give the axe.

Thanks in advance to everyone who responds. Really excited about this new(to us) format! Also let me know who out there plays pauper commander and what decks y’all run, I have a large list of possible commanders that intrigue me waiting to brew!

Decklist on Moxfield: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/Yx1bjZWd3ESCOSqJ8-sNsg