Up the ladder it gets steeper: PSA 7s at $25,100, PSA 8s at $34,101, and a PSA 10 (last publicly recorded at $48,598 back in 2023) that would almost certainly command six figures if one traded today
The really standout legendaries like Aurelia, the Law Above (only technically a Battalion creature) and Tajic, Blade of the Legion are decent cards in their right, but their Battalion keyword is more of an "added spice" than something to build around
the counters just get placed how you choose when it resolves
Savior of Ollenbock has two separate abilities, which means you can permanently exile something by sacrificing or otherwise getting it to leave play before the first ability resolves
Wizards can't make new, expensive cards as quickly as it wants to reprint expensive cards, and the lack of expensive cards to reprint would necessitate changes to increase the amount of reprint equity if Wizards intends to continue reprinting cards at anywhere near the pace that it has been for the past year or two
