(Way to go, those who championed it, pat yourselves on the back!) Before the official filter, Pauper was played casually as essentially "any online card that showed up as common in the deck editor." Wizards more or less adopted this stance when they added the filter, but has never paid that much attention to it
Mechanically, I want to play this card
Quick expansion: Slumbering Dragon, Dragon Egg, Crucible of Fire, Dragons Hoard, Dragon Tempest, Scourge of Valkas, Thunderbreak Regent, Knollspine Dragon, Dragon Mage, Dragon Roost, Form of the Dragon Goal cards: Utvara Hellkite, Sarkhan, Fireblood Tribal commander: Zirilan of the Claw or Lathliss, Dragon Queen ELVES The pointy-eared ones are one of the games OG tribes, and perhaps its most consistently represented
I do think, though, that there are distinct types of players that Wizards is designing for, and that its clear to see that they have a deep and respectful understanding of the format given these patterns repeat again and again