Unpowered Fairmax Vintage Cube

This cube aims to keep an overall high power level while simultaneously maintaining a broadly fair gameplay. It features multiple themes like Flicker, Aristocrats or Reanimator within the four big archetypes: Aggro, Midrange, Control and Combo.

Banlist

There are a whole bunch of cards that I excluded from my cube for various reasons. Here's an overview of the currently banned cards.

Absurdly fast Mana
These cards generate way too much Mana too fast. A turn 2 four-drop or a turn 3 six-drop is really hard to deal with. They also deprive green of one of it's key advantages.

• Black Lotus
• Mox Pearl
• Mox Sapphire
• Mox Jet
• Mox Ruby
• Mox Emerald
• Sol Ring
• Mana Crypt
• Mana Vault
• Grim Monolith
• Fastbond
• Mox Diamond
• Chrome Mox
• Ancient Tomb
• Gaea's Cradle
• Dark Ritual

Overpowered cards
These cards are just way too good at what they are doing. Therefore they shall not be seen in my cube.

• Ancestral Recall
• Time Walk
• Library of Alexandria
• Mana Drain

Unfun Cards
These cards are not necessarily too strong, but can create miserable situations at the receiving end.

• Winter Orb
• Maze of Ith
• Rishadan Port
• Moat
• Karakas
• Opposition
• Bribery
• Upheaval
• Lutri, the Spellchaser

2-Card-Instant-Win Combos
I also consider these kind of combos as unfun. If the other player doesn't have an instant answer, the game is just over. The exclusion of these cards also means that I don't need to play mediocre cards like Pestermite or Deceiver Exarch.

• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• Splinter Twin

Efficient Tutors
Tutors often lead to repetitive gameplay, which I don't like. A certain amount of randomness and luck makes the cube experience exciting and increases replayability.

• Demonic Tutor
• Vampiric Tutor
• Imperial Seal
• Lim-Dûl's Vault
• Mystical Tutor
• Worldly Tutor
• Enlightened Tutor
• Entomb

Efficient Land Destruction
I also consider these spells as unfun because they deny one player to play the game and often lock them in an unwinnable situation.

• Armageddon
• Ravages of War
• Strip Mine
• Wasteland
• Wildfire
• Burning of Xinye
• Plow Under

Ways to cheat fatties into play (except Reanimator)
These are essentially 2-card combos that don't end the game on the spot, but put the opponent in a very awkward position, where they have to have the right answer the following turn or they'll most likely lose. With the exclusion of this archetype I don't need to include parasitic fatties like Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

• Tinker
• Natural Order
• Channel
• Show and Tell
• Eureka
• Oath of Druids
• Sneak Attack
• Through the Breach