You can always reanimate them later
Im right behind you! Illustrated by Zoltan Boros Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Legal Historic Legal Modern Legal Brawl Legal Legacy Legal Comp
Krenko's popular Commander deck is a good example of how flexible an army of creature tokens can be because all those Goblin creature tokens aren't just combat units
For creature matchups, we have a motley crew of blue cards, with So Tiny being our Sword to Plowshares, Warrant // Warden often permanently answering a creature since we can put it on top of our opponent's deck and then mill it away, Run Away Together offering some fun tricks where we can bounce our opponent's best thing and one of our enters-the-battlefield mill creatures, and Flood of Tears being our (very bad) Wrath of God
There is no room for half measures, and if you draw either half without the other, youre leaving yourself quite vulnerable without doing anything that a standard issue control strategy cant handle
Icewind Elemental Of the sets common 5s, Icewind Elemental seems like the best one on rate