Of course, a 1-drop with no late game abilities can only go so far
You can load up a Charmander or Charmeleon with with up to three energy per turn
In this post, Im going to give you a deck tech for my Thanksgiving-inspired Commander deck

Table of Contents show The Deck Thief of Sanity | Illustration by Igor Kieryluk Commander (1) Artifact (6) Sol Ring Arcane Signet Mana Crypt Jeweled Lotus Lightning Greaves Mithril Coat Creature (22) Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff Consuming Aberration Ruin Crab Syr Konrad, the Grim Archmage Emeritus Bruvac the Grandiloquent Zellix, Sanity Flayer The Council of Four Esper Sentinel Lazav, Dimir Mastermind Grma, Saruman's Footman Faerie Mastermind Nemesis of Reason Baleful Strix Solemn Simulacrum Thief of Sanity Riddlekeeper Fleet Swallower Jace's Archivist Snapcaster Mage Sen Triplets Duskmantle Guildmage Enchantment (7) Storm of Saruman Psychic Corrosion Memory Erosion Smothering Tithe Mind's Dilation As Foretold Phyrexian Arena Instant (16) Press the Enemy Drown in the Loch Thought Scour Memory Plunder Swords to Plowshares Void Rend Dark Ritual Dig Through Time Anguished Unmaking Cyclonic Rift Borne Upon a Wind Teferi's Protection Brainstorm Ephemerate Consider Cabal Ritual Land (34) Reliquary Tower Nephalia Drownyard Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Boseiju, Who Shelters All Takenuma, Abandoned Mire Cabal Coffers Raffine's Tower Godless Shrine Hallowed Fountain Watery Grave Sea of Clouds Morphic Pool Vault of Champions Isolated Chapel Glacial Fortress Marsh Flats Flooded Strand Myriad Landscape City of Brass Shipwreck Marsh Island x5 Plains x4 Swamp x4 Command Tower Sorcery (14) Maddening Cacophony Fractured Sanity Breach the Multiverse Windfall Reanimate Damn Damnation Treasure Cruise Traumatize Tasha's Hideous Laughter Mind Funeral Acquire Bribery Farewell I did my best to include a mixture of cheap and expensive spells in this deck

While some cards require you to go down a different path than usual, Harsh Scrutiny is one of those nuts-and-bolts cards that can help round out a wide variety of strategies