Starfield Shepherd does a good job of guaranteeing you hit your early land drops and can be played later to either keep hitting land or grab a utility creature like Insidious Fungus
I often see people board down to ten dredge cards, which I dislike, as the two-mana enablers rely on you to have a dredge card in your hand to discard, and youre often sideboarding out an Otherworldly Gaze as well, which acts as a way to find dredge cards when you dont have one in your opening hand
Even a simple Rancor being replayed gives you a 9/7 trampler hexproof giant that kills in three hits with Commander damage
.Which means that sometimes there are set themes without a good legendary creature to build a Commander deck around
Ikra brings greens powerful creatures and interaction
The decklist also contains some staple cards in mono-red aggro decks for Standard, like Goddric, Cloaked Reveler and Shivan Devastator