Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver can be a bit of a problem, but Ive won games when its activated several times by eventually going bigger
The non-enfranchised crowd, in contrast, played once or twice, didn't get was going on because the things they normally did didn't work, and lost without understanding why, so they stopped playing as it wasn't fun for them
Go wide with Treasure and/or Blood tokens (hey, its a red deck!) so you can turn them into equipment when youre in a pinch
It also has a very nice animation when opening the menu drawer
But Haq suddenly grasped Samut's hand, pointing in front of him, straight into the storm
In most Commander decks it's basically a second Sol Ring that sometimes shoots you in the face, but what's three life when you start with 40