You do need a fair amount of mana open to you and a little bit of setup to get going
As a deck, as you may have guessed from its name, it's all about counters and spreading them across all of your creatures
The Doctor Who Masters of Evil Commander Deck includes 1 ready-to-play Blue-Black-Red deck of 100 Magic cards (2 Traditional Foil Legendary cards, 98 nonfoil cards), 10 Planechase cards, 1 six-sided planar die, a Collector Booster Sample Pack (contains 2 Traditional Foil or nonfoil special treatment cards, with 1 Common or Uncommon and 1 card of rarity Rare or higher), 1 foil-etched Display Commander (a thick cardstock copy of the commander card with foil etched into the card's border and art), 10 double-sided tokens, 1 deck box (can hold 100 sleeved cards), 1 Life Wheel, 1 strategy insert, and 1 reference card
It's often easier to administer 10 poison counters to an opponent than to deal 40 damage, and it gets even easier to administer 10 poison counters when you have an army of toxic Rats
The Foundations Starter Collection is another new product being released with the Foundations Set