You can defend yourself or use it when others are targeted, depending on what you need in the moment
With no other setup necessary, its an aggressive deck meant to strike fast before your opponent finishes setting up
Each deck had a wall card to support its assassins in the air, and we found that Tranquilize did a lot of work in preventing our opponent from using theirs
For whatever reason, the combination of red and black always seems to pop and that's once again the case here
If you thought getting smacked by your own commander was bad, try sitting there and watching some lucky opponent have the next two or three turns
The easiest way to blend this is to make a 2- or 3-color legendary creature that cares about something very specific, or that can be used in Limited to drive new draft archetypes, that boost a certain Standard deck, or inspire the creation of a new EDH deck