Although the Dinosaur token enters the battlefield attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for the purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example)
Point Salad is both a game and a gaming term one used to describe a game in which players fulfill a bunch of unconnected goals in a race to earn the most points
And anyone with fundamental commander knowledge can likely pilot it just fine
Despite this blue has good ways to regain lost card advantage and far fewer good ways to gain tempo making this a good filler card to help all manner of quirky blue dork decks
Its downside is that it cannot answer expensive things well, and you need to be multi-coloured to take advantage of it, but in both Modern and Legacy that isnt an issue as expensive cards arent played as much and most decks are naturally multi-coloured due to the manabases available in these formats
Swarmyard a good land for protecting your squirrel commander, while Bloomburrow gave us Oakhollow Village for additional +1/+1 counters and Mudflat Village for some recursion