Icetill Explorer and lands that sacrifice like Fabled Passage and Escape Tunnel help you get extra triggers for your heavy hitters
You will still probably play the mill cards that force people to mill half of their library, sure, but youre actually using those to make your main win condition gaining life work with Hope Estheim
While it's easily upgradable, you're better off starting from scratch and building an all-new Villain/Connive deck around him
He's proven right when Zalbaag orders him to shoot through Tietra to kill Gragoroth, to Delita and Ramza's horror
This creature 4/4 costs three generic and two Blue mana to cast, and when it enters the battlefield you become the monarch
Usually that type of effect (skip your draw step and Regrowth something) isnt worth being down a card, but when youre using it to kill them, card advantage is irrelevant