• A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF SALT: Coming from a time in Magic before EDH and also a taste for fighting games, I love salt! Not spiking your controller on the ground salt but the type of competitive interaction when you know your opponent will fuck you over in the dirtiest way they can find and expect the same from you. Like good food, every competitive interaction can be enhanced by a tasteful pinch of salt.
• PROACTIVITY: Boardstalls are time consuming and, in my opinion, unrewarding, the perceived losing player will fry their brains trying to solve the situation at first but most people will quickly give up and do dumb stuff just to get over with it. This cube aims to promote action in all strategies, faster archetypes are norm, but even the slower decks need to be standing their ground firmly in the early game to have a solid chance.
• COLOR IDENTITY: One of the most unique and interesting parts of Magic is what effects you have access depending on the colors you chose, this cube has strict rules on how each color gains access to card advantage and removal, for example, black removal is fairly universal but for creatures only (and sometimes lands) and no 2:1 opportunities like Ravenous Chupacabra, red has no draw or looting, only impulsive and rummage draws.
• INTERACTION: Fast decks with cheap and focused interaction make the most cutthroat games, where you have to take risks to create openings and abuse them, the outlier to this principle is green, that tries to dodge interaction while having little access to it, both a blessing and a curse. This cube encourages having some sideboard tech, especially on the play-draw axis.

Other important fact is that I don't include planeswakers, free spells or double-faced cards.

 
I live in a 3rd world country so budget is a major concern, I don't aim for powermax and avoid cards that resolve the game by themselves like planeswalkers, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Orcish bowmasters, etc, besides that I find powerful cards fun and aim to scale the environment with time until I find a sweet spot.

A major flaw with archetype driven cubes is that they default to linear drafting and gameplay. My solution to this problem is to give colors overlaping archetypes and flexible cards, for example Death & Taxes is supported both in and in , as a consequence of this distribution, each pair also supports 2 archetypes for Tempo is in too, making it possible for you to draft very different decks using a combination of all 3 colors in an archetype and all 3 archetypes in a color.

Strategy	Primary	Secondary
Taxes
Tempo
Aristocrats
Growth (Ramp & Protection)
Aggro