Commander rules allow you to start with 40 life, which is already a huge boost, and there are more than enough ways to gain life, even infinite life
The only thing you really need to bear in mind when playing it is that it scales poorly compared to many counterspell options as the game progresses
Also worth mentioning with this version of Sauron is their immense Ward cost
If you dont want to risk damaging yourself, Smaug can also pull off a wide variety of infinite combos with Mayhem Devil
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Still, no good typal strategy is complete without a few dedicated lord creatures, and the +1/+1 from Immerwolf is all it needs to really justify itself in a Wolf deck