We absolutely crushed slower controlling decks and actually did a surprisingly good job against midrange creature decks as well, even beating a Turn 3 Rotting Regisaur that attacked us for something like 10 straight turns by chump blocking it with our random mill dorks)
Itll feel great to throw a card like Titanoth Rex away to boost this commanders power or steal an opponents valuable graveyard cards
There are only a handful of playable cards able to give you real card advantage, and playing an Old School match is a brutal fight for resources
It'll prevent those from killing you for a turn, after which you'll die to them immediately as the next turn begins
Counterspell (Ice Age/Alliances, Tempest/Stronghold/Exodus, Masques/Nemesis/Prophecy) Counterspells are decent in limited, but by no means the be-all, end-all of the universe
As soon as you have sac outlets these cards are very efficient fuel and generally pretty good ways to start out the game clogging up the board and generally being annoying