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I have a promo Hero of bladehold that I would be willing to part with.  I am interested in the geist, do you see anything for about $5 or so to even out the trade?

There are several mono-red, tournament-quality decks out there under the name "RDW".  I would start there; they should be fairly competitive with Infect.

lol, marklol.

Also, I *think* DSS is a Darkslick Shores based on the fact that it's the only thing in the OP's tradelist that could qualify as DSS.

That is sound advice. 

I like the Wingcrafters because they can get the geists, snaps and titans into the air.  Delvers recent success should be evidence that early, evasive threats win games.  I see the paladins as "win more".  They don't fly and what would they pair with?  Titans that don't fly?  Geists that don't fly?  Snaps that don't fly?  Without evasion it's not really damage, it just forces chump blocks or trades with slightly larger creatures.

For the most part I like it.  The one glaring issue I see here is the land count.  21 lands is not enough for a deck that wants to get to 6 mana by turn 6.  It's also not enough for snapcaster decks in general since you'll need to have plenty of mana to cast the snap and whatever you give flashback to in addition to  other spells if necessary.

My recommendation would be to drop down to 3 Forbidden Alchemy and completely remove the Conjurer's Closets.  Then add 3 more lands.

From a fine-tuning perspective I might drop down to 3 Sun Titans and 3 Geist of Saint Trafts in favor of a 3rd Phantasmal Image and a fourth Mana Leak. 

4 Geists is a little much since they are legendary.  4 Titans is a little much since they cost 6 and you really don't need to see more than the first one; you just have to keep them alive.  Phantasmal Image has so many uses that I might even try to run 4 of them but 3 is a good start; plus, they interact so well with sun titan in the late game that there's nothing wrong with seeing tons of them.  Lastly, your best turn 2 play is mana leak and you probably want to make sure you have one in your opening hand; running 4 will make this much more likely.

After looking at your deck I feel I should point out that my Grim-grin is an all-zombie* build.  There are probably many other Grim-grin builds that go the "good stuff" route and still make excellent use of him.  So, wkvd, this being your first EDH deck ever you might want to start with a "good stuff" build and if EDH becomes a consistent format you can switch to something like mine later if you want. 

* I run one filth because hordes of zombies that can't be blocked are too good to pass up.  Every other creature in the deck is a zombie according to the Gatherer database.

You should already be able to able to accomplish everything mentioned here aside from a search for every multi-color card exclusively.  You can change the search type and select more than one color at a time to do almost anything.

If that doesn't answer your question, would you please provide more specific examples?

I play a TON of EDH and also run a Grim-grin build.  Here is mine:  http://deckbox.org/sets/139813

I know the current version is different than what I have listed here by a few cards but, in general, this is about as polished of a list as you'll find out there and I strongly recommend picking up every card there if you decide you're serious about the deck.

Here is a link to a previous discussion I had on this same topic; the last entry is a fairly up-to-date breakdown on what cards you should focus on getting and how important they are to the strategy overall.

http://deckbox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1465

EDH deck breakdowns are massive topics so let's start there and see if that answers most of your questions.

The fastest infect deck out there is going to be mono-black.  It can put up turn 4 wins on occasion and turn 5/6 wins are fairly regular.  That being said the deck is somewhat costly to build and fairly one-dimensional.  here's a random list from the internet:

2 Liliana of the Veil
2 Victim of Night
4 Lashwrithe
2 Tezzeret's Gambit
2 Dismember
4 Whispering Specter
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Phyrexian Crusader
2 Virulent Wound
2 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
1 Tumble Magnet
2 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Plague Stinger
2 Contagion Clasp
2 Distress
21Swamp

   
Sideboard
1 Tezzeret's Gambit
2 Spellskite
3 Phyrexian Vatmother
2 Black Sun's Zenith
3 Flensermite
2 Memoricide
2 Doom Blade

I'm sure there are cheaper ones out there if you look around.

I had a similar idea before AVR and ended up going the EDH route with Kaalia of the Vast as my commander.  Either way I think you're on the right path.  The angels and demons cost a lot of mana so you'll need to deploy stall tactics.  Or, you could go B/W/G for ramp.