“Things like Gather Your Party are fantastic at cutting your curve short, but they also work just as second copies of other big threats.”
This seems to imply that the recruit mechanism summons a copy of a minion of your deck instead of what it actually does (which is pulling said minion out of your deck and into the board – like Y’Shaarj).

I like the general idea of the deck. I would seriously consider adding the second Dead Man’s Hand. Also, considering the amount of card draw, cheap spells and minion “copying” you could throw in an Arcane Giant