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We've all been there before.

It's turn 6 of your kitchen-table magic game. Both players have three creatures out. All of them have big butts, and there are no profitable attacks. You're scratching your head, hoping to draw something - anything - to break the board stall.

But what if... every creature died to a single hit?

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The One Toughness cube:

Mission Statement: Every creature in the cube must have one toughness. No abilities may directly increase a creature's toughness. Any creature tokens created must also have one toughness.

What Follows: When every creature is an X/1, many facets of the game change drastically. Creatures with first strike are almost guaranteed to kill whatever comes in their way. Trample is going to hurt a lot. 1/1 tokens are no longer chump blockers; they are deadly caltrops. Oh, and actual Caltrops? Banned to power. Just like Tim, who now reads ": Destroy target creature."

This cube is built heavily around the combat step.

White

• Weenies, tokens, token weenies, etc.

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Blue

• Flying, card draw, counterspells... oh wait, that's just what Blue usually does.

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Black

• Giving something -1/-1 is really good in this cube.

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Red

• The most similar to its usual playstyle.
• Lots of blocking-disincentivizers (trust me, that's a word)
• Ball-lightning variants are fun.

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Green

• Access to more mass-token-makers than the other colors.
• "Fatties" have to be special, because spending 6 mana on something that dies to a one-drop feels bad.
• Mana Dorks are much worse and much better than usual. They are worse because your "fatties" all have one toughness and die to a stiff breeze, but they are also much better than usual because they can block and kill almost every creature in the cube.

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Multicolor/Colorless/Etc.

• Figure them out yourself!