Splash Portal Id only really consider Splash Portal if you know youll be able to draw the card most times that you cast it
The worst part: even though Dual Casting is a tap ability, you can usually put the aura on a creature which was already in play so assuming the spell you want to copy is an instant, you can go from innocuous boardstate to comboing off in the same turn for just four or five mana
That said, to talk about what I appreciate about Connive, well need to first talk about what I didnt like about Explore
I just find it fascinating that this archetype, which even my own younger self has criticized for simple and predictable gameplay, can simultaneously contain such multitudes of deck ideas and still present a different approach to each one
Meanwhile, if you include Academy Manufactor, each Clue also enters with a Treasure and Food token too
Then you can also trample and menace so double evasion there