The first of those is cost reduction, and the second is when a card allows you to take extra turns
Donny Caltrider has been playing Magic since 2002 and collecting original Magic art since 2017
Draw from Garruks Uprising, Distant Melody, and Timeless Dragon to keep gas in the tank

Battle your way through the plane of Ikoria with monster-themed mechanics that grow your creatures build your bond and crush your opponents Enhanced Evolution Commander (1) Planeswalker (1) Creatures (38) Capricopian Hungering Hydra Genesis Hydra Vastwood Hydra Boneyard Mycodrax Cold-Eyed Selkie Fertilid Glowstone Recluse Predator Ooze Reclamation Sage Trumpeting Gnarr Trygon Predator Ukkima, Stalking Shadow Yavimaya Dryad Beast Whisperer Boneyard Lurker Cazur, Ruthless Stalker Insatiable Hemophage Masked Admirers Migratory Greathorn Silent Arbiter Tidal Barracuda Wydwen, the Biting Gale Zaxara, the Exemplary Auspicious Starrix Cavern Whisperer Dreamtail Heron Heroes' Bane Illusory Ambusher Mulldrifter Pouncing Shoreshark Shriekmaw Souvenir Snatcher Vorapede Chittering Harvester Mindleecher Sawtusk Demolisher Archipelagore Instants (4) Deadly Rollick Putrefy Krosan Grip Beast Within Sorceries (10) Animist's Awakening Mind Spring Profane Command Gaze of Granite Kodama's Reach Villainous Wealth Dredge the Mire Migration Path Deadly Tempest Find / Finality Enchantments (4) Parasitic Impetus Propaganda Psychic Impetus Predatory Impetus Artifacts (5) Sol Ring Arcane Signet Bonder's Ornament Lifecrafter's Bestiary Manascape Refractor Lands (37) Blighted Woodland Command Tower Darkwater Catacombs Dimir Aqueduct Dismal Backwater Endless Sands Exotic Orchard Golgari Rot Farm Jungle Hollow Llanowar Wastes Mortuary Mire Myriad Landscape Opulent Palace Rogue's Passage Simic Growth Chamber Soaring Seacliff Sunken Hollow Temple of the False God Thornwood Falls Forest x11 Island x2 Swamp x5 Commander, Theme, and Strategy Otrimi is truly the wildest of the bunch

Izzet (blue/red) decks are not known for the ability to ramp, so you'll be spending the first few turns setting up mana rocks for mana generation, leaving your defenses open
You can also steal creatures (Captivating Vampire), drain life with a ton of creatures (and Blood Tribute), Lifelink all day long, and more