If you control your Commander, you can exile any creature for free, otherwise the spell costs you 4 mana
The board wipe needs to resolve before the creatures come back to the battlefield, so the creatures have to come back later that turn or else they simply flicker then die
Defender only prevents the creature from being declared as an attacker, which doesnt happen with fight effects like Ancient Animus, Pit Fight, and Longstalk Brawl
His +2 creates Food tokens for life gain or to fuel the Elk ability on your own permanents
Krile Baldesion* This little dwarf is an odd card with the ability to raise dead a creature each turn that is smaller than the amount of mana spent combining revive-to-hand with spellslinger in an odd package that invites coming up with different ways to solve it
Deck boxes come in many sizes, so it's important that you're getting one that's capable of holding your deck