This card, Gaston, Frightful Bully, is a non-inkable two drop with solid stats
Not only that, but it reads, At the beginning of your end step, gain control of target nonland permanent controlled by a player who was dealt combat damage by three or more Pirates this turn. It can be tricky to get that many hits in, but if youre playing with cards that make your creatures tricky to block, then you should be able to keep adding more things to your collection
Maybe that upside is a downside in other contexts, but here, Minds Aglow does work
Those that arent will make you think twice about hitting them by applying a penalty such as Banishing the Challenging Character or forcing their player to discard a card
While Tocasia's Welcome is far from being our mighty green artifact, it can still provide you with enough card draw through the course of a game to justify running it, especially if you use creatures with flash like Cathar Commando that can be played on your opponents turn to draw a card
My boss, Mark Rosewater, wrote the articles for the first three You Make the Cards