The composition draws your eye outward, encouraging you to explore the environment before focusing on the subject
In that sense, its a success
Especially those who have no means in this world
Then, once you've decided to gain enough life in a turn, he flips into his Planeswalker side and turns all that incidental life game into a potential one-turn kill
Combine these with Paradoxical Outcome, and you will have a Vintage deck
If another effect (or effects) modifies how much damage a source you control of the chosen type would deal (for example, by preventing some of that damage), the player being dealt damage or the controller of the permanent being dealt damage chooses the order in which any such effects, including the effect of Collective Inferno's last ability, apply