Ways to abuse Blood Funnel
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Posted on May 28, 2013, 8:37 a.m. by MartialArt
Are there any ways to abuse Blood Funnel to make a good deck with it in the center?
I'm thinking about Heartless Summoning to speed it up but can't think of a lot of cards to abuse the Blood Funnel .
Talrand, Sky Summoner (or other similar effect) would give you a creature to sacrifice every time you cast an Instant or Sorcery.
May 28, 2013 8:46 a.m.
DancesWithGoblins says... #4
Why not go totally B/W/G? Then you have access to more populate, Call of the Conclave and Advent of the Wurm . A good start to your tokens, right there.
And once you've got reliable token creation running you can go with big, heavy enchantments made cheap to hit like a brick.
May 28, 2013 8:48 a.m.
DancesWithGoblins says... #6
Collective Blessing for a start, then you've got all the totem armors, and Ethereal Armor . Painful Quandary , Sanguine Bond etc etc.
Once you've got the token production secure, you can lock the battlefield in your favour and swing in when the time is right.
May 28, 2013 8:56 a.m.
That just sounds like the wrong way to go... if you're casting things like Advent of the Wurm , I wouldn't call it a "good start to your tokens", I would call it a finisher. I can't imagine that you would then want to then use Blood Funnel , so that a few spells are less expensive... but have to sac the Wurm token to cast spells.
If you go with tokens, you want to ensure you are getting the cheapest ones possible. Things like Lingering Souls gives 2 sac'able tokens for 3 mana, and would have a 1 mana cost once Blood Funnel is in play. - Doomed Traveler would be a 1CMC method of getting 2 sac'able creatures. - Increasing Devotion would net you 4x 1/1 creatures for 3 mana.
If you're going to abuse Blood Funnel , you want the cheapest (or most plentiful) creatures possible, to sac in order to get large powerful spells for next to nothing. - Most populate comes in spell form, meaning you will have to sac a creature to populate one. The reliable and reusable populate (Trostani, Selesnya's Voice , and Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage ) cost more to populate than the 2 mana you save by using Blood Funnel .
Also, anything with "morbid" becomes powerful, as you will essentially be causing morbid to trigger every time you cast a spell.
Lastly, don't forget that you need non-token creatures as well, otherwise a single board wipe could easily be unrecoverable, as having nothing to sac could mean having no ability to cast anything.
May 28, 2013 9:24 a.m.
MartialArt says... #8
Thanks. This would be a interesting way to go.
I think I will start making a decklist and would appreciate suggestions there:
May 28, 2013 9:37 a.m.
Blood Artist would be nice here to make the sacrificing give you an extra kick. But, theHeartless Summoning t allow it.
May 28, 2013 9:40 a.m.
I had a thought... another great way to abuse Blood Funnel , is to simply use many spells that cannot be countered.
This simply prevents the need to sacrifice all together. You could also use Boseiju, Who Shelters All to make all your instant and/or sorcery spells unable to be countered... essentially turning the need to sacrifice into "pay 2 life" (but also preventing your opponent from being able to counter your spells as well).
May 28, 2013 9:43 a.m.
MindAblaze says... #11
That Rayenous is a great idea! With stuff like Slaughter Games , a couple cheapy early creatures, some token generation and a card like say...Brimstone Volley ...you've got yourself a BRx control deck
May 28, 2013 12:40 p.m.
toss down a couple of Grave Crawler into 2x Blood Funnel into a turn 4 Army of the Damned would be gross, yes it magic christmas land in my head,
May 28, 2013 1:11 p.m.
M14's "Young Pyromancer" is going to be a 2/1 red creature (costs 1R) with "Whenever you cast an Instant or Sorcery spell, put a 1/1 red Elemental creature token onto the battlefield."
Something like this (being cheaper than Talrand, Sky Summoner , as well as a better color for abusing Blood Funnel ) could be quite useful. - Brimstone Volley would become a 1CMC, 5 damage burn, at instant speed.
May 28, 2013 1:33 p.m.
hiddengibbons says... #14
I'm not sure about this, but maybe Angel of Jubilation . It might not work the way I'm thinking though. I guess something that would make it so you can't sacrifice permanents.
May 28, 2013 2:16 p.m.
MartialArt says... #15
The problem is that if I can't sacrifice permanents the spell will automatically be countered.
Good idea but the problem is not the sacrificing. It is that the spell will be countered otherwise.
May 29, 2013 6:16 a.m.
hiddengibbons says... #16
Ah, I suspected as much. I guess spells that just can't be countered paired with Talrand, Sky Summoner would probably be the best bet then.
acbooster says... #2
Play Orzhov tokens with Growing Ranks in play so you can have an IV drip of creatures.
May 28, 2013 8:40 a.m.