If an opponent destroys your creature in response to the connive trigger, you still draw and discard a card
The card includes Bombadils rhyming ditty as its flavour text, drawn directly from Tolkiens writing
For example, let's say you play all of your spells on curve, but your opponent plays nothing on turn one, a two-mana spell on turn two, a two-mana spell on turn three, a two-mana spell on turn four, and so on
tacking on a burst of lifegain doubles down on the catch up mechanics
There seem to be slightly fewer interactive instants than wed usually see out of the classic control color, but Scatter Ray, Machine Over Matter and Urzas Rebuff might be all you ever need
Even entire strategies can be used as a design knob to tune mutual playability, the most famous of which is the prototypical aggro deck