That wasnt even the problem
It's also an excellent cantrip in a controlling deck, where you can hold up mana for disruption before casting this when the coast is clear
They would do anything for each other, and we wanted to ensure we preserved their connection in the set
In a deck designed to drop its hand fast, its not hard to trigger Goddric to create a three mana, hasty, 4/4 flying dragon with the fire breathing ability, burning your opponent to a crisp
Similarly to above, her ability only counts once, as it states: while you have a character or location , not for each character or location
For decks that can abuse the mana upgrade in one turn, this is plenty good enough, hence the card remaining on the Legacy banlist and Vintage restricted list