you may play cards from your graveyard mtg Life the Loam you may mill three cards instead Conduit of Worlds | Phyrexia:

Spells like Nadir Kraken and The Locust God that create tokens as you draw cards are great ways to defend the crown while Psychosis Crawler and Niv-Mizzet, Parun turn the card draw into pressure to wrap the game up

With so many good instants available, once a player untapped with a Shadowmage Infiltrator and an otherwise empty board the game was practically over, and if there was some small threat left over it could be dealt with in due time

I was lucky that nobody else was playing a kindred deck, but I also didn't have enough of a board presence yet

No, and it doesnt have to

Turning a doomed body into 68 life has saved more games than people admit