MTG Salvation

I've decided my LoT build needs some tweeking after some pretty disappointing play results.

The three main issues I encounter -

1) as soon as LoT hits the deck, I naturally become target #1 (if I'm not already) baring something else VERY scary
2) As soon as I move to caste LoT, another player - in responce to me casting him - will use a kill creature or targeted damage to kill on of the creatures I have to sacrifice to put LoT out.


Current Build, more or less a shoebox project;

Commander:
Lord of Tresserhorn

Creatures:

• Memnite
  
• Crookshank Kobolds
  
• Kobolds of Kher Keep
  
• Crimson Kobolds
  
• Gravecrawler
  
• Typhoid Rats
  
• Hired Poisoner
  
• Festering Mummy
  
• Sanitarium Skeleton
  
• Foulmire Knight
  
• Bloodsoaked Champion
  
• Manaforge Cinder
  
• Order of Midnight
  
• Nightscape Familiar
  
• Ruin Rat
  
• Racind Rats
  
• Reassembling Skeleton
  
• Cloud of Faeries
  
• Oculus
  
• Looter il-Kor
  
• Embereth Shieldbreaker
  
• Torch Fiend
  
• Hammer Mage
  
• Tidehollow Strix
  
• Baleful Strix

Instants and Sorceries:

• Distortion Strike
  
• Artful Dodge
  
• Tainted Strike
  
• Tolarian Winds
  
• Lazotep Plating
  
• Psychotic Fury
  
• Temur Battle Rage
  
• Uncaged Fury
  
• Relentless Assault
  
• Chandra's Ignition

Enchantments, Artifacts, and Equipment:

• Footfall Crater
  
• Messenger's Speed
  
• Mark of Fury
  
• Aqueous Form
  
• Betrayal
  
• Aboshan's Desire
  
• Deviant Glee
  
• Sadistic Glee
  
• Starlit Mantle
  
• Sleeper's Robe
  
• Glistening Oil
  
• Phyresis
  
• Fallen Ideal
  
• Rhystic Study
  
• Torper Orb
  
• Mistvein Borderpost
  
• Dimir Signet
  
• Rakdos Signet
  
• Lightning Greaves
  
• Swiftfood Boots
  
• Haunted Cloak
  
• Whispersilk Cloak

Lands:

• Island x7
  
• Mountain x8
  
• Swamp x10
  
• Transguild Promenade
  
• Crosis's Catacombs

• Crumbling Necropolis
  
• Graven Cairn's
  
• Cascade Bluffs
  
• Sunken Ruins
  
• Saltwater Cliffs
  
• Jwar Isle Refuge
  
• Thriving Isle
  
• Remote Isle
  
• Polluted Mire
  
• Grixis Panorama
  
• Terramorphic Expance

Cathedral of War
Geier Reach Sanitarium
Rogue's Passage

END OF DECKLIST

Anyway - that's what I'm running right now - it almost works - it can be fast as hell, but especially having the creatures I need to sacrifice sniped out from under me as soon as I move to cast LoT is maddening.

Anyone have some suggestions?