u/Dino-Boom

This is likely a silly question. I am aware of the drain effects. My problem is that, even with maximum set up, it still takes several turns of 4 or so things dying until it works. It seems like a lot of set up for a few pings a turn. I had thought that I may have just needed more redundancy with the drain effects, but that has seemingly just made things more clunky. Isn't this archetype supposed to be one of the better ones? The commanders I use aren't particularly good and that's okay, but I feel like this whole archetype folds to single target removal too easily. Am I missing something?