How can I make compound mail rules in iCloud?

I love the control that rules give you in Apple Mail, or any mail client for that matter.  I use them for everything to sort nearly every piece of email that comes in on a daily basis.  From daily advertisements to receipts they all have their place.  I used to run my rules directly on my iMac or MacBook, but they didn't seem to translate to my mobile devices.  I was told that I needed to manage my rules in iCloud directly.  I've been doing so and they work well for the most part, but I've recently encountered two limits that I can't get around without a combination of iCloud rules and local/mac based rules:
A.  iCloud limits you to 99 rules.
     Now I know this number is a lot and maybe I'm just too type A because I've hit that limit and have needed to delete old rules to make room for new ones.
2.  iCloud rules only allow for one criteria.  For example, the iTunes store sends me emails for weekly alerts and then sends me receipts for my purchases.  I'd like to filter receipts to one folder and all other iTunes emails to another folder, but since they both come from the same email address I cannot do so.  If I choose to filter by "has subject containing" and type in "Your receipt" I'll obviously grab receipts from ANY vendor, not just iTunes.  I could go the other way and filter by the subject containing "My Alerts" and the others, but then I would have to make multiple rules for each individual subject coming from iTunes, hence using up more than one rule of my 99 rule limit.
I know this sounds picky and granular, but it's just frustrating when the rules are SO detailed on the local machine, but so basic in iCloud.  Any plans to update the rules or make them more robust?
Philip

I'm afraid that whether or not there are any plans about this, Apple don't tell us. If they do decide to increase the facilities we will only know when they implement it. (And by the Terms of Us of these Discussions we are not allowed to speculate.)

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