The cube is a vast format with a variety of decks than can bring lots of pain really fast
You can triple Gamble for five base mana, but you can shave off a mana to let a foe discard and draw cards in a reverse looting effect (rummaging)
As broke college students, we relied on a combination of scouting out the lowest prices, using store credit, and saving any extra packs we had from events to make sure these drafts were as cheap as possible
The cost of the deck itself was cheaper than expected, and since there are many cards that provide explosive advantage even among the cheap ones, there's the fun of investing pocket money later to swap them for expensive cards
The Owl's activation is cheaper, and both out will turn them into Snow and lock them down
Instead, the amount of toughness the indestructible card has will take that amount of damage from the attacking card, and the rest of the damage (the Trample damage) will be directed to the player