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I would say that is probably an amazing idea, actually.  And possibly Jarad's Orders as well, because that gets you the best of both worlds (especially since you can choose to only find one and it goes right to your hand).

I finally got to play this tonight!  And sadly, it bombed pretty hard.  Went 1-3.
If and when you can get the big enchantments out (Exquisite Blood, Feed the Pack, etc.) then they can be great.  The problem is that the current meta, at least where I'm at is just way too incredibly fast. 

The main problem is that there just weren't enough creatures staying in my hand, especially when I'm using them as an extra resource to draw cards and kill things.  Blood Artist + Barter in Blood definitely stole the show though.  Any time that you can get a couple artists out and then essentially kill four creatures, that is at least a 16 point life swing in your favor.  I cleared more than a couple boards with back to back Barter in Bloods, but that also left my board empty.

The problem wasn't quite as much of the fact that there aren't enough creatures in the deck, but rather that they all cost so little and are rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things, that you end up committing a lot of them to the board very quickly.  And when you do that, and then sacrifice a bunch, you end up with an empty hand and just top decking the rest of the game.  With all the extra life gained from the Blood Artists, will definitely want to include a full set of Sign in Bloods.  For the most part, the enchantments are definitely cool when they hit the field, and allowed me stall for a few more turns whenever they did, but they should probably be dropped almost entirely for something that will help out more immediately and more readily.

I am gonna have to say though, that I sided in a couple Gnaw to the Bones and they rock the house in this deck.  Sack a bunch of creatures to get a life swing from the Blood Artists, and then gain twice that much life, and then do it again with flashback.  Even if you have only 4 creatures in the graveyard, that is 16 life for 6 mana.  Will probably be main boarding those from now on because you really need that extra stall factor here.

Champion of Lambholt was pretty useless, because you'd just end up wanting to sacrifice it anyway.  Will definitely drop those.  Craterhoof Behemoth was much the same way; you never had enough creatures on the board and enough mana to make it worth while.

Lastly, definitely need a bunch of enchantment and artifact hate in the sideboard, possibly main.  Oblivion Ring shuts down your sacs.  Witchbane Orb shuts down Blood Artist.  And I'm sure there is plenty more where that came from.

Gaining from sacrificing and life gain are really the stars of the deck, and we definitely need to play more on that fact.  A lot more.

Have a Promo Lingering Souls up now as well, if that interests anybody.

I'm still having issues deciding what I like most.  My gut tells me Golgari, just because I've always loved the G/B combo. 

I also really want to make Azorius Flicker Detain work.  Azorius Justiciar/Lyev Skyknight/etc. + Restoration Angel/Cloudshift/Ghostly Flicker/etc.

And Izzet is just begging me to try and break it in some way..... Especially because I love the Overload mechanic.

I think everybody is underestimating Rakdos too much, so I also really want to build that for some crazy aggro.

So yeah, I'm torn and can't really pick a favorite.......

Bump.  Just pulled a second Liliana of the Veil, so I have two up for trade now.

Ghostly Possession is a great card to lock down their creatures from dealing any damage to you, and pairs amazingly well with Palisade Giant as well.

I haven't had to fill out a customs form ever, nor do I have to drive a long way to get to the post office.  But the fact of the matter does remain that 1) shipping is most definitely more expensive, 2) things can get caught up in customs for up to two months (seen it happen personally) and 3) there is basically no way to track your shipment unless you want to pay upwards of $16.

I, myself, have done a few trades to Canada without any issues thus far (one being with you, I do believe), but I also know that I've been screwed over by people before claiming that "cards never arrived" or other such things, and in cases like that 1) I'd like to have tracking available when shipping more expensive cards, so they have no excuses and 2) If something does happen to go wrong, not have to pay even more for shipping again to ship back cards because mine "never arrived".

So yes, there is some hassle to the matter.  For some it isn't a huge deal, especially those shipping generally smaller trades.  For me, I find a little anxiety wrapping up $40 in cards in a regular envelope and a couple stamps and sending it to somewhere that I have literally no way of knowing if/when it will ever get there.  And, personally, I take a little offense to your statement about us "silly confused Americans", making it sound like we're an entirely incompetent group who can't ship "to *gasp* another country", when, in fact, it is probably more along the lines that we don't want to ship to Canada because the increased risk, additional shipping cost and possible time delays are not worth it to us.

Yep, same here.  I think there's actually quite a few of us on here, because we have programming discussions in the Site Feedback forum every once in a while.

Sending a trade with a bunch of non-revised/unlimited stuff, then I'll have to do a lot of searching to see if I also have some of the revised stuff as well.

Well then, very nice!  Wizards decided to be quick this time around.  I'm guessing that sebi still has to trigger a regathering of the data, which may just happen automatically at night.