It's actually very straightforward
Completely embarrassing and it doesn't help that Vendread themselves already struggle a lot and this card fails to address any of their issues
Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.) P/T Number 327 Language English Legal Formats Brawl, Commander, Competitive Brawl, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Timeless, Vintage Not Legal Formats Alchemy, Pauper, Standard Rulings (4/29/2022) Connive X is a variant of connive
Branching Bolt I like Branching Bolt a lot because for 3 mana you get to potentially kill two creatures, but for our purposes, just dealing 3 damage to the flying one is okay
After all, it's difficult to build a deck full of appropriate answers when you don't know what the threats are