This kind of card is great in formats with really low curves, where you can easily get it to blow things up, but most Limited formats dont get there
As a mono black commander, supporting Sephiroth with plenty of disposable creatures or other cards that trigger removal allows you to gain card advantage, all while enabling a vampirism effect that helps you gain life while your opponents lose it
And then you make a 4/4 flyer that's swinging for the turn as well, and if it this, that's eight damage to them plus the four, for a grand total of twelve life differential on the fourth turn after casting it on turn three
Brago is another commander that loves to flicker any number of nonland permanents you control whenever it does combat damage to a player
A 36-pack box can support 12 players, or an 8-player draft with a larger prize pool
Its three mana, and with the mana cheating red does so efficiently, having this land enter tapped isnt as bad as in some of the other colors