Key design goals:

• Aggro, midrange, control and combo are viable in many different forms
• Balance across colours and macro archetypes
• No board stalls
• Every deck naturally has good and bad matchups, but the difference in winrate should not be enormous. You should be able to win a game in a bad matchup, and maybe even win the match.
• Minimizing non-games
• Micro archetype support with blurry delineation to incentivize creativity in drafting and novel gameplay moments (high replayability)
• Micro archetypes reward the player for things that are already good
• No cards that never make the mainboard
• During the draft, the drafter is constantly faced with meaningful decisions: Minimizing "draft on rails", even in the more linear strategies
• Power level Strix 7F

Notably absent:

• Large amounts of artifact synergies
• Storm
• Power 9, and a handful of other power outliers like Sol Ring and Demonic Tutor
• Initiative and venturing into the dungeon

Macro archetype support is most common in:

• Aggro -
• Midrange -
• Control -
• Combo - (and )

Micro archetype support:

• Spellslinger
• Reanimator (and )
• Sacrifice (aristocrats)
• Ramp
• Stompy
• Death and taxes
• Xerox delve
• Land looping (e.g. Strip Mine) (light)
• Cawblade (light)
• Blink (very light)

Draft procedure:

Every pack contains at least 1 card of every monocolor.

House rule

All basic lands are snow lands

Views on fairness

Combo and cheating into play should be viable and strong, but the cube should have powerful answers as well.

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For reference: Frank Karsten's recommendations to get enough mana sources