The most recent expansions, Triumphant Light and Shining Revelry, didnt upend the meta so much as introduce a handful of versatile cards
Patrick Chapin had started "Chapin draft" as a set of curated cards with set design principles in the late 1990s, which was where the roots of cube began but as a named concept, Cube itself emerged in 2000 in Toronto, Canada, within the playgroup of Gabriel Tsang, Mark Zadjner, Gary Wise, Elijah Pollock, and others in Ontario, with Tsang having named the format (per David Rood) as cubes were carried in 1k longboxes
As a bit of an intro, my names Marcy, and I usually write about board games here on Goonhammer, but Im actually a MTG goblin in secret, having been playing the game for 30 years on and off, mostly in Standard and other competitive formats (Modern and Legacy)
Considering that Standard now has TWO self-mill win conditions, it would be foolish to go past a card which guarantees you can exile your library as soon as its drawn or milled