Cindercone Smite is widely considered to be comparatively worse than Burst Lightning in the same format. No other red damage spell is only able to do 2 damage exclusively to creatures. I think buffing it would do well to get more non-starting-player bonuses into decks. I love those cards and I think they should be ubiquitous in alchemy.

My suggestion for Rising Chicane is that it be should be able to be a creature during your first main phase. This would make it work much better with all the equipment that just released with Final Fantasy.