Welcome to The Simple Cube! In the modern age of Magic, card design has become more and more supplemented by the use of external game pieces namely tokens, counters, and double faced cards. Though these elements are all important in adding longevity and variety to the card designs, the combination of everything can be tiring. Hence, The Simple Cube's restrictions:

• No cards that cause players to shuffle
• No cards that create or utilize tokens of any kind
• No cards that have counters of any kind (including planeswalkers)
• No double faced cards

In addition to hard rules about cards mechanical capabilities I have a set of design goals mostly pertaining to what I would call the cube's "Mechanical Aesthetic":

• With the exception of glue type cards there should be as many unique cards from a power band that normally doesn't make it in power maxed cubes.
• In the pursuit of the "Simple" moniker I want to prioritize cards with pared back rule text avoiding the commander "wall of text" feel.
• Gameplay should feel like fundamental magic with archetypal twists in, particular avoiding all in combo decks.
• I want to balance this cube to include engines/cards that I love and find to be underpowered in other environments.