That flexibility is why connive helped shape competitive formats and continues to see play in Commander
Crystalline Sliver Crystalline Sliver allows Sliver players to play their game without being paranoid (or at least, while being less paranoid) that disaster will strike them at any time
That is, they're presented as cards all their own rather than using the Godzilla cards method of having the Godzilla card be essentially an alternate skin, as shown below here: This was a sweet and elegant solution that could have easily been applied here - even if they were to cards that didn't already exist
If you have a particular aversion to counterspells, you could even run cards like Destiny Spinner
Bezpieczestwo: szyfrowanie, weryfikacja, ochrona danych i transparentno procedur
If you do, until Vesuvan Shapeshifter is turned face down, it becomes a copy of that creature, except it has At the beginning of your upkeep, you may turn this creature face down. Vesuvan Shapeshifter normally costs five mana, but you can cast it as a morph card for three, and then it only costs two mana to flip