Instead, it seems like the Magic fanbase has just collectively woken up to this card's potential, and collectors are out buying it up in droves
Rather than paint a detailed reasoning as to why the card is so potent it seems more beneficial to instead try and distill the description into a minimalist sketch
The mind games employed by the blue player here can produce VCA: by not playing aggressively enough, the player with the Glorybringer might lose tempo and take too long to close the game
This way whenever a member of R&D looked at the Shadowmoor file, they could instantly know which hybrid combination they were looking at
Most recently, Marvels Spider-Man used connive for villain characters, demonstrating how well it fits scheming antagonists
If the other creature is still a legal target, it's returned to its owner's hand