The point of Chaos draft is to have fun, not necessarily to crush all your opponents underfoot by knowing you'll open a specific near-unbeatable card
Firstly, you should only be investing money which you are prepared to lose
This way, when the opponent at the furthest from you on the table plays a spell like Time Warp, which guarantees them one more turn to develop their schemes and their game, it is very possible that you place your cards in hand on the playmat and go drink some water, stretch, or go to the bathroom
Centiskorch can be played as a strong finisher, but make sure that there's enough Fire Energy to discard in the deck
It costs two to equip to anything else, but the main thing here is that whenever the equipped Creature attacks, you get to double the number of +1/+1 counters on it