Limit one pouch per player
I also had considered putting in the uncommon dragons from AFR in the deck, but they just aren't as powerful
Of course, choosing the nontoken creature mode is still fine, especially if they only have one creature to hit and you can deal with it cleanly
You can follow along with me using the Kess, Dissident Mage deck I built HERE
But don't stress there are often multiple versions of the same card
Yes, that is also the main disadvantage to getting card advantage through drawing cards and yes, discard is also weakened by diminishing returns which card draw isn't, I am not comparing discard to card draw as a way towards card advantage, just stating the facts about cards in isolation