I was on LMDE a year or two ago. I still found it a little 'one-step-removed'. Cinnamon is in the Debian repos now - just use Debian testing or unstable.
But so should testing – it does offer some stability and the remote guarantee that packages are installable, plus you get upgrades to stable for free at each release.
Then again, YMMV and everybody is probably better off making their own decision here :)