You can probably change all the pends into towers. You don't really need an early dessication or anything - it's gonna take until turn 4 (and probably longer) before you have more than one or two voodoo dolls on the table anyways, so the earlier mito/bond is probably a lot more useful than having the quanta for a dessication that's sitting unplayed in your hand early on. Alternately, keep the pends and toss in a permafrost shield or two.