The ante rules are not only a potential thorny legal issue when it comes to gambling, but they would also cause tremendous bad blood among players, especially those who pay a lot of money for their cards
The upcoming set rotation is likely also to help the developers to avoid banning more cards in the future
Creatures (8) Planeswalkers (3) Lands (16) Spells (33) 1 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Brainstorm 2 Mana Drain 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Yawgmoth's Will 4 Force of Will 1 Sol Ring 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Time Walk 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Mana Crypt 1 Time Vault 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Tinker 1 Voltaic Key 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire 3 Thoughtseize 4 Spell Pierce 1 Nature's Claim While The Deck had to play a playset of Swords to Plowshares and a playset of Disenchants, saving Demonic Tutor for restricted cards, eventually, things got so powerful that you could just play decks with a single creature kill spell and a single Disenchant effect
Im not sure whether Delort used the scratchboard method for these two Magic cards, the legendary Inga Rune-Eyes and Koll, the Forgemaster, and then colored them digitally
There are also scalable costs for those that can spend the mana to enhance their new acquisition
Choosing past mills cards, and then each opponent takes damage equal to the mana value of the milled cards