It is just so efficiently costed (often a two mana 7/7 or 8/8 flyer with the potential to grow even bigger with multiple copies), that those stats are simply good enough on their own
A player offered a villainous choice can always choose either option, even if the effect of that option turns out to not do anything
Connive first appeared in Streets of New Capenna , representing the Obscura crime familys talent for manipulation and scheming
Useless in singleton formats like Commander, where we already only have one copy of each card, but probably very fun in your Legacy-format casual kitchen-table deck to shut off your opponents consistency
In fact, its very often used to cast all the other cards on this list well ahead of schedule
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