I would just use the words combo, uninteractive, and high power level, instead of "unfair". Like you said yourself, unfair can mean any of these, so it's just confusing.
I would say for example, that the fast mana in the form of moxen or lotus have somewhat "unfair" power level, but that's fine because there are only a few of them and you normally won't get more than 1 or 2 of them in a draft.
But it sounds like your friend was talking about a cube with lots of combo support. An instant win combo is highly uninteractive, but it doesn't have to be unfair if it requires many, maybe mana-intensive, cards to pull it off. I don't have much experience with combos, but I don't think that there are many that are good enough to actually perform well against the classic cube archetypes aggro, midrange and control. There isn't much you can pull off consistently in a singleton format.
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I would say for example, that the fast mana in the form of moxen or lotus have somewhat "unfair" power level, but that's fine because there are only a few of them and you normally won't get more than 1 or 2 of them in a draft.
But it sounds like your friend was talking about a cube with lots of combo support. An instant win combo is highly uninteractive, but it doesn't have to be unfair if it requires many, maybe mana-intensive, cards to pull it off. I don't have much experience with combos, but I don't think that there are many that are good enough to actually perform well against the classic cube archetypes aggro, midrange and control. There isn't much you can pull off consistently in a singleton format.