This is my take on a retail-limited-on-steroids style environment, built towards playing to the board and crafting synergies between cards. The primary inspiration for the environment is as follows.
I love every card. This is a shameless tribute to the Magic cards I have loved for the last 15 years in all my various eras of play, from dumb commander build-arounds to premodern bangers I've played in the last year. This trumps everything.
The cards are easily grok-able. This isn't quite simple cube or bar cube, but on that end of the spectrum over vintage cube.
Minimal number of token types. One token per color, plus food and clues.