Once an ability that causes a creature to connive begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard a nonland card but before it receives a counter.
If no card is discarded, most likely because that player's hand is empty and an effect says they can't draw cards, the conniving creature does not receive a +1/+1 counter.
If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to connive but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still connives. If you discard a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything. Abilities that trigger "when [that creature] connives" will trigger.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from MH3 — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #108 of *Modern Horizons 3*, the set that shipped alongside the June 2024 Modern Horizons 3 release.
Card type: Creature — Human Knight Rogue, color identity black, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {3}{B} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Menace and Connive.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #15,656 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Leonardo Santanna. Rarix catalogs 128 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Leonardo Santanna
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