Advantages of Lower Power Levels Easier (and cheaper) to find combinations of mutually playable cards Relatively easy to ensure pet cards or favorite archetypes will be prominent features of the format A majority of newly released cards will easily integrate into the environment, permitting a quicker update cycle for highly active playgroups Low-power cubes can easily resemble slower formats like Retail Limited, Standard, or kitchen-table casual that place a relative emphasis on gameplay skills like card advantage and threat evaluation Advantages of Higher Power Levels Easier to conceptualize high power formats since the power outliers of Magics history are usually well-known to Cube designers, they can harness Constructed heuristics and knowledge To build high-power on a budget, designers can simply decrease the average MV of their interactive tools (discard, counterspells, removal), which will invalidate more expensive threats without affecting cheaper threats (in dollars and mana) A slower pace of updates is possible, since fewer cards from each new Magic release will be mutually playable with the existing cube High-power formats can easily resemble fast formats like Legacy or Modern that place a relative emphasis on gameplay skills like tempo and sequencing Other Notes Making incremental, like-for-like swaps to a Cube is a good way to hone in on a desired power level, because those small changes are unlikely to lead to big shifts in mutual playability
Familiar mechanics like Adventures and Double-faced card make a comeback too, with Landfall and Saga creatures perfectly inspiring Chocobo play
The Good It is no secret to anyone who reads other content from me, or to other people I corner at parties, that I like Sorcery: Contested Realm
But plenty of these decks are playable (and ripe for tweaking later on)
I want to stress to only buy cards from trusted vendors
It just kept coming back over and over again while also being sacrificed to spark my Liliana, Heretical Healer
