What was the other option we all talked about a while ago with Blood Funnel in Mishra?
EDIT: I know you were supposed to dig something out with Thada, play it (and have BF counter it), and dig out your own copy for free.
I believe it was when you cast it, the Mishra's trigger goes on the stack, with the Blood Funnel counter trigger above it. The counter trigger resolves first, countering the spell. Then, Mishra's trigger procs to search your graveyard for a card that has the same name as the artifact you cast, and puts it in play. Net result: Artifacts cost 2 less with no drawback.
The schemes with a strong deck is honestly just too overwhelming. I use my best deck when we need an Archenemy because there's supposed to be a disadvantage for playing against 3-5 players. But when you flip things like Time Walk or the triple scheme card, it's just brutal. You can roll with almost any general as long as it would be considered "competitive", even if your general is like Johan or something. If you just want to win, build the strongest deck you can with the cards you have. If you want to have fun, build something wacky like a theme deck of scientists or something silly
I play both. I tested Momentous because I had a foil of it, and it turned out to be amazing since I had very little ways of gaining life. The reason I used Greater Good over Momentous before I ran both was that you can do silly things like Terastadon, sac him, replay him out of grave and repeat every turn. It enables silly things like Yosei locks, etc. and requires no mana open after you play it, keeping all of your guys safe from tuck/exile so they end up in the grave/command zone like you want them to.
Here is my Karador deck which is currently 42 out of 100 cards foiled/altered if I remember right. The pictures don't really do it justice because I only have a phone camera right now. Warning: I couldn't get the images much smaller so they are a tad large.
The only reason I run Rav Karoo's in my Karador deck is because my general automatically gives me access to creatures I discard if I happen to drop it on turn two as well as allowing Primeval Titan to search out Cradle or Coffers and replay it that turn, so he basically fetches for Cradle or Coffers untapped at the cost of your land drop and gives you a two mana land tapped.
My view is that Iona is alright because there are multiple outs to it, because it can never stop colorless removal. Multiple players and multiple colors allow for removal of Iona eventually. Palincheron on the other hand I have never seen used for anything other than going infinite. Any mana doubler with him grants infinite mana, creature CIPT effects, tap effects off of lands, etc. He really isn't used for anything that isn't degenerate.
Both group hug and group hate, along with the mix between them, are head-bangingly (?) frustrating to play with. No good or sharp play you make can help the overwhelming advantages a group hug player can grant, such as if the group hug player targets your opponent with Trade Secrets, then proceed to both drop Reliquary Towers. The mixed variants, playing both the Howling Mine effects along with Obliterate, Sunder, etc. are also incredibly awful to play against. With uncounterable board wipes or a table without blue, the game can be reset completely. One player here says that those effects are fun and fair, "because I can rebuild faster than everyone else", rather than having some way to win on the board. A single attack from a Quietus Spike caused him to Obliterate, which just caused everyone to scoop. I try to kill the group X player first in games so I can play more normal magic because some of the players refuse to play decks that don't do either group hug or group hate.
@Darkrider: The rules and achievements that I think are going to be used either outright ban degenerate combo or using Zilants combo concession option to win points but allow the game to continue and having a sharp penalty if you choose not to take that option. The major thing that everyone is worried about is "that guy" coming in and winning every game with a combo all the time. I don't know what else I can do besides stop infinite combos to keep the Spikes away.
@splashingblack: The person from the store specifically wanted to have no entry fee I believe. I agree with that because otherwise people feel like they "lose something" if they don't win, so out comes degeneracy. I do like the "nefarious vote" and probably will incorporate it, because I don't think I can put down every interaction that is backbreaking and easy to assemble. Drafting rares, in my experience, has really never worked. If everyone puts in two rares with their entry fee, I would just buy them, because if I win I get my two rares for the same price, or if I lose, that two dollars is "wasted" because someone else could take the cards I wanted. Like if I put two token related cards in and someone else took them, there might not be anything else token related that someone put into the pool.
@invasj: I do like the idea of a rotating chaos effect, although not something like Grip of Chaos permanently active. Just something small and beneficial, just like Howling Mine seems perfect. My idea for prize support would probably be a couple bucks (something in the ballpark of 4-6 for winning) in prize support to pick up dollar rares combined with a t-shirt from the LGS that we play at. I still have to talk to the store about the prize support though, because the main person that I was working with prize support for is on vacation until tomorrow.
@zilant: Yeah, I'm trying to make it so that doesn't happen. Hopefully that the prizes of first and sportsmanship being the same and adding other things will make it so there won't be "that guy".
@Bacon: I don't see how any of that is relevant. It is unhelpful and unless you are suggesting I ban all of those cards, then I don't see what you are trying to say.
I believe it was when you cast it, the Mishra's trigger goes on the stack, with the Blood Funnel counter trigger above it. The counter trigger resolves first, countering the spell. Then, Mishra's trigger procs to search your graveyard for a card that has the same name as the artifact you cast, and puts it in play. Net result: Artifacts cost 2 less with no drawback.
Wouldn't...
1 Deceiver Exarch
...with as many two mana producing lands as possible be better?
Everything else is normal beyond here
@splashingblack: The person from the store specifically wanted to have no entry fee I believe. I agree with that because otherwise people feel like they "lose something" if they don't win, so out comes degeneracy. I do like the "nefarious vote" and probably will incorporate it, because I don't think I can put down every interaction that is backbreaking and easy to assemble. Drafting rares, in my experience, has really never worked. If everyone puts in two rares with their entry fee, I would just buy them, because if I win I get my two rares for the same price, or if I lose, that two dollars is "wasted" because someone else could take the cards I wanted. Like if I put two token related cards in and someone else took them, there might not be anything else token related that someone put into the pool.
@invasj: I do like the idea of a rotating chaos effect, although not something like Grip of Chaos permanently active. Just something small and beneficial, just like Howling Mine seems perfect. My idea for prize support would probably be a couple bucks (something in the ballpark of 4-6 for winning) in prize support to pick up dollar rares combined with a t-shirt from the LGS that we play at. I still have to talk to the store about the prize support though, because the main person that I was working with prize support for is on vacation until tomorrow.
@Bacon: I don't see how any of that is relevant. It is unhelpful and unless you are suggesting I ban all of those cards, then I don't see what you are trying to say.