serena full art pokemon card (Crimson Blaze #69/103, 2-Diamonds) and damage Serena - 193/195 Full Art

The above examples illustrate this idea perfectly

I've heard this opinion many times and it's something I totally disagree with

Not to mention, the connive triggers fills your graveyard and fixes your hand at the same time

The key thing to using this spell is to know when to sit on it and wait for an opportunity to win, when to use it proactively to take out even just one player, and when to use it defensively and forgo the chance to use it to try and win

Activate only as a sorcery. Only being able to activate this as a sorcery means itll have to be on your turn, but all you need to do is find a way to drain your own life and you can save a lot of mana with ease

Every time you try to reduce the variance responsible for "non-games", you eat into the variance that makes Magic great