You choose the order the copies are put onto the stack
There is no price at which Wood Elemental looks good
One Reddit user commented on Kraken of the Strait's low-quality CGI-style look, saying that the giant Blue creature "looks like a cutscene from a PS2 game." Certainly, the card does seem to be of lower quality than cards of a similar style
One of the big appeals of commander is that because of the larger deck size and inability to run multiple copies of cards, commander games between the same two decks tend to be very different (baring commanders with deck searching abilities)
But, no matter how much research you do on how many creatures to play, what kind of cards you should be playing to close out games, and all those other tips, the best way to become a good control player is through practice
Its even splashable in X/U or X/Y/U decks, since you only need one blue to cast and activate