You don't want the table to rely on your resources to clean up the board too often, because that hurts your card advantage, but you don't ever want to look like easy prey for the table to beat on during downtime, either, because that costs you precious life points and board advantage. Hence, the best way to play tempo in EDH is to appear second or third best. Of course, he doesn't actually have to be in a bad state, it just has to look that way to the rest of the table. That's the biggest tempo play anyone can make.
Remember that every turn cycle when you are the most dangerous player at the table and during which your permanents are eating removal and your spells are fizzling to countermagic, the weakest player, who wasn't attacked by anyone, effectively Time Walked you all by getting a free draw and land drop with zero pressure from his opponents. The closest approximation of the stick-one-threat-and-protect-it school of Magic for EDH is Voltron, but the strategy is against the idea of tempo in practice because it makes the pilot very conspicuously dangerous. It's a tight race in 1v1 formats already, and facing down three times the removal makes the strategy fail completely. Well, the Delver method isn't a real strategy in EDH.
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