I suggest you look at cards like Lier, Disciple of the Drowned, Past in Flames, and Reiterate to ramp up the spellslinger theme and give your deck some redundancy if youre planning on putting together this list
Your kid will probably always be one step ahead of you in his Pokmon knowledge, but this guide is a good start
Its unique typing and durability helped it stand out among EX cards
If you exile a token, you get an Incubator with zero counters, which effectively lets you pay two at any time to have a Phyrexian creature die and trigger Brimaz
Using it for mana for a few turns and then turning it into two 2/2 spiders on the next is a pretty decent proposition , and even though it has sorcery speed stapled onto that effect, it's something for ramp decks to do when their draw is too many acceleration cards and no payoffs
A deck upgrade is just what the doctor ordered, it's only a matter of which cards have the most impact