One of the most exciting things about Pauper is that people are always finding new combinations of commons that attack the format in interesting ways. Over the last couple of weeks, we've seen the rise of Mono-White Heroic to prominence. This past week, we saw a crazy Enchantment-based control deck that plays a number of rarely-seen cards to incredible effect:

Enchantment Prison - Pauper | Mathonical, 5-0 Pauper League

• Creatures (4)
• 4 Heliod's Pilgrim

• Sorceries (4)
• 4 Kruphix's Insight

• Enchantments (31)
• 1 Crystallization
• 1 Curse of the Bloody Tome
• 1 Faith's Fetters
• 1 Hobble
• 1 Kirtar's Desire
• 1 Recumbent Bliss
• 1 Trace of Abundance
• 3 Fertile Ground
• 3 Oblivion Ring
• 3 Pestilence
• 3 Protective Sphere
• 4 Abundant Growth
• 4 Journey to Nowhere
• 4 Quiet Disrepair

• Lands (21)
• 1 Plains
• 7 Forest
• 1 Unknown Shores
• 4 Blossoming Sands
• 4 Jungle Hollow
• 4 Scoured Barrens

• Sideboard (15)
• 4 Aura Gnarlid
• 3 Castigate
• 1 Curse of the Bloody Tome
• 2 Negate
• 1 Pestilence
• 2 Prohibit
• 2 Relic of Progenitus

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Your end game involves the likes of Pestilence backed up by Protective Sphere. Pestilence lets you keep opposing creatures under control, particularly swarms. Protective Sphere lets you protect your life total from any huge swings due to things like Lightning Bolt or flash threats. A huge part of the power of this deck is that Abundant Growth and Fertile Grounds fix your mana for these 2 powerful cards, making Pestilence a consistent sweeper and letting Protective Sphere be a maindeck card. In the event that you can't Pestilence your opponent out, that's when Curse of the Bloody Tome gets to work.

All in all, this is a fairly non-traditional control deck by Pauper standards. The lack of counterspells is surprising, and the engine here is something that's almost completely new. If you're looking to do interesting tricks with obscure enchantments, this is the deck for you. As far as customization goes, the sky is the limit. With the amount of fixing in this deck, you could play just about any enchantment and Kruphix's Insight will give you a great chance of finding and leveraging it. It remains to be seem if this deck has what it takes to persist in the Pauper metagame, but there's only one way to find out!