Vexilus Praetor looks unassuming, but with flash and giving your commander protection from everything, it is absolutely bonkers, like, probably the best card in the deck bonkers
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Since it's part of a graveyard effect cycle anyway, just chuck it straight to the graveyard and reanimate it using any of the typical 3-mana-value reanimation spells available in Standard
The premium effect of course comes in the form of the non-targeting banish
Secondly, you are going to want to run your stuff to get a bigger token too, and all things are exiled, yours too, I'd actually prefer this in some ways with a destroy instead for your commitment and not hurting you as much
Not 9, but 8