BPhillipYork: It's a mana dork that also mana fixes for your commander, so it just makes any green that wants to ramp out creatures smoother and more consistent, and it makes your commander uncounterable or some big legendary spells like Karn's Temporal Sundering or, Planeswalkers, which will get to hit the board then do their thing without a chance for interaction
Lost Remover allows you to place a Special Energy card attached to one of your opponents Pokmon into the Lost Zone
I also wanted to play some number of equipment spells for the costless improvise boost
You've also got a few sources of life gain (see Mask of Griselbrand, Basilisk Collar, and Blood Artist), and a few ways to wipe the board if things get out of hand (see Decree of Pain and Blasphemous Act)
You will spot this as dots of color in amongst black
You see this baddie on the other side of the table, and you know youre in for a quick game