I wrote about what constitutes a Bracket 2 Commander the other week, and if theres one headline from that article, I believe that Bracket 2 works best when Commanders choose from mana advantage, card advantage, and win condition, and dont try and cram as many of them as possible into the zone
Once it triggers, the creature will gain skulk until end of turn when the ability resolves, regardless of whether or not its power is still 2 or less at that time
Fortunately, we have a couple of tools that can help stack the deck
I think sometimes people want to break from the digital, and this is a good outlet for it, Hoge tells Fortune
Only cast this when you know what your opponent is holding or when your permanent is objectively more dangerous than anything they could possibly have