This is a remastered draft format designed to emulate booster draft, but with replacements of the worst performing cards. My goal is to reduce the number of cards in packs that perform roughly worse than an additional basic land, also known as, duds. For this particular remastered set I only used cards from the original Theros Block.
MethodologyMy methods for choosing which cards to replace are looking up 17Lands winrate data, specifically GIH (Game-in-Hand) winrate and IWD (Individual Winrate when Drawn) improvement, and my own memory of card performance. I focus on cards which were near universally bad and tend to leave in cards which had situations where they were of interest, even if most drafters/decks would not desire them.
This cube is aimed at Best-Of-1 play, and many of the changes to the cards (e.g., replacing strict sideboard cards like Plummet) are driven by that decision.
Unlike most of my other remastered set cubes, for this one I only pulled from a select list of sets for replacement cards, mostly the original Theros block.