Okay, how about double counters
This version does a good job of telling the specific story of the Minstrel creating higher difficulty fights, but it doesn't reward you for putting Towns in your deck unless you can afford to invest five mana, which often won't be the case in Standard
Piglet, his timid but loyal friend
A single Pokmon can only be evolved once per turn and not in the same turn they are played to your bench
My hope is that WotC will explore more options for dragon payoffs outside of the usual red ones, with cards like Sivitri, Dragon Master and Korlessa, Scale Singer as great examples of what I look for
Getting to double the effects of expensive and X-cost spells for just a one-mana kicker is already some amazing fair value, especially when you can opportunistically copy Faithless Looting and other smaller spells in between the big stuff