Since your entire deck is (mostly) made up of Assassins, just one Assassin dealing damage gives all your Assassins freerunning , which lets you cast them for just two black mana
There are a variety of ways to punish opponents for drawing cards in Magic, and sometimes theres just a good old-fashioned group hug in Commander
Evaluating and swapping packages rather than single cards keeps the deck coherent and makes upgrades or pivots (like moving toward cEDH) far easier
And so there was a lot of discussion of, all right, what are characters that people would absolutely love to see, but we don't want to make them into a pair because technically the main version is dead, and it would be really weird to have a dead character and then their alternate version in the main set when we're pairing everything." He explains that in the Commander deck they could just include the alternate version
Reactive is the new proactive
Show of Confidence is another route to a wind condition