Thankfully, convoke helps with the casting cost as long as you're playing some other black creatures
You can start designing a card from a lot of different angles, Bowen says
And even if you aim to extend the game far beyond the next turn, youre almost always trading up on mana while remaining even on cards (and, in fact, seeing deeper into your library)
With scrying, players can make better informed decisions based on what they will draw next, and can smooth out their mana curve by choosing cards with the right cost, or enough lands to play a higher cost card from hand
Sure, it may even be enough to take one player out, but then they have to face several other opponents and are sitting with an empty hand, limping along until they are either swatted down themselves or luck into another powerful spell