Minnies abilities tie in nicely with his own, as well as with other cards with inexpensive gain strength abilities that may have been overlooked previously
In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause MJ, Rising Star's ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase
I know that its easy to dismiss a very fragile 1/3 body in a format with excellent one-mana removal, but Dreadhorde Arcanist only needs to attack one time to start snowballing things very far in its favor
However, it also lets you catch up if you're falling behind by allowing you to draw until you have two cards in your hand
Then each creature that isn't an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each creature you control that's an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel
I do think its worth a shot elsewhere, though, as it can cheat big creatures into play