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looks okay.  with M14 coming out soon, you might look for some cards like quicken chandra's phonix and the new chandra, young pyromancer will be good too.

Not sold on the nivmagus, cyclops or dragon.  Here's why.

When you exile cards with nivmagus, you don't get the resolution of the spell.  It just fizzles and gives him counters.  He's not hexproof and very susceptible to removal.  TBH he's a pretty bad card.  if you want this kind of pump effect, get some runechanters pikes.

I see the logic behind the cyclops, but he's easily chumped and you won't always have a spell to enable him to attack.  I would prefer boros reckoner here, if you could splash a couple white lands to help make him easier to cast.  Chandra's phonix will even be better in a couple weeks.  Or anything with flying/evasion.

The dragon is big, but Ætherling is really your finisher here.  letting you cast sorcories as instants just isn't good enough.  You can put in almost anything else imo.

Your missing some sweepers.  Mizzium mortars is a must.
More thing twice and turn/burn... such good cards.
turn a couple of the dissipates into syncopates.  Syncopate is surprisingly flexible especially when they tap out to play something.
see if you can get a jace, architect of thought.  He'd be really good in this deck. 

I still like the idea of splashing white...  it's a much better package.  Look up the American deck that won SCG Dallas a while back.  A friend of mine net-decked it and it does pretty good.  Lands are expensive.  But it's something to work towards.

silverheart, imo, is win more in this deck.  You have kessig and thundermaw.  I don't think you need another beefy 5 drop.

I said Turn/burn because it should be main imo.  It stops so many things.  Thragtsuk, Angel of Serenity, sire (which ruins your day). 

Same goes for pillar.  It's cheap and effective and really belongs maindeck.  I would argue for it over spears.  You can snap a turn, and pillar it for the same effect.  Stopping voice is paramount to your deck and letting them have the token is silly when you don't have too.

You mention answering thragtusk. I think with more removal and fewer counters cards like thragtusk will seem less threatening and so will aggro decks.  Side the avengers if you think you really need them, but I bet you won't.

Deserves a sticky, imo. 

Lots of new players coming in with rtr block.

well, you didn't say anything about the value of the cards

I agree it's a little over priced, but I don't think rotating out of standard will drop it that much.  It's like a lili of the veil.  And it does work in the deck you're talking about.  I've played against it and seen it played... when it works, it really works and it can cause your opponent to have to play around it.  Especially in modern where there's a lot of tricks.

I don't know if something like advent of the wurm has a place in your deck, but 5/5 trample with flash for 4, seems okay.  If you're thinking splashing for green.

consuming aberration is vulnerable to lots of different removal spells.  And it's quite possible that if you haven't done any damage to someone in this format their life total could be well in excess of 30 by the time you go to start swinging with it.  Also... in this deck it doesn't have trample and you can't give it trample so a 1/1 spirit can block it all day long. Also, consuming aberration has the potential to just not work.  They could hit land every time. 

Olivia would ruin your day... Also there are plenty of decks that don't care if they have cards in the yard.  Reanimator would just eat your aberration with angel of serenity.  Other decks would side in rest in peace no graveyard means the aberration is dead.

Jace is subject to less removal. Lets you draw to get answers and mills for a guaranteed 10 cards. Also, jace helps protect your life total.  You opponent is going to go for to kill jace most of the time.

Artful dodge is bad because it requires a space in your deck that could be filled with better "stuff"  if you want unblockable creatures then use unblockable creatures.  At the very least use rogues passage it's repeatable unblockable effect against most decks. Committing a spell slot to a cantrip of this type is just not efficient.  It's better to have a spell just to remove your opponents board.

The statement I made about guild gates isn't about having the "right" mana.  It's tempo. 

If you play a guild gate you lose tempo with is death to an aggro deck.  You want to hit your drops every turn like a steady heartbeat.  If you have to play a tapped land the that heart skips a beat and you're behind from then on out. This consistent tempo is the strength of aggro decks.  Which is why burning tree emissary is so good.  it allows you 2 beats on turn 2.  It puts your opponent in the position of trying to catchup to you.

I would consider playing guildgates in a budget midrange, but never in an aggro deck.  The key rune is the same thing as a gate in this deck.  You commit 3 mana, on turn 3 when you should be advancing your board. 

And lets be clear only 6 of the lands I suggested are "shock" lands (take 2 damage to com into play untapped).  The dragonskull summits are "check" lands.  and 8 black splashes aren't bad for having exava. 

i suggested exava for a couple reasons. One , the main one, it's a good aggro creature that's not rotating, and it can help finish the game.  Two, it was on the "theme" of your aggro plan.  There's nothing wrong with going Mono Red (RDW) and using something like hellrider, but the rider is rotating and it's important in the current meta to have a heavy hitter that comes out swinging on turn 4 to finish things.

A couple big things, First off, your deck is 70 cards.  You must cut it down to 60.  You have 18 lands You must run many many more in order to consistently play your cards.

Now for your construction.  There's nothing wrong with the graveyard deck concept.  There's some strong golgari cards that work with this synergy. 

Lands.  You probably don't need haunted ferngraf.  You do need 4 overgrown tombs and  I think evolving wilds could work in this deck as well. 

Creatures. There's nothing wrong with arbor elf at the moment.  I would consider running Deathrite shaman since you can get value out of your graveyard with it and it can help ramp up.  That and arbor elf should help you get some of the bigger creatures out a little easier.  Varolz is the card to build around in this kind of deck.  His ability is pretty good.  Cards with Lotleth troll, Desecration demon and Jarad lich lord synergy well with him. Scavenging ooze coming in m14 will also be very good. 

Try the deck below.  Some of the cards cost a little bit but I think it has the graveyard theme you want with still being able to play to win.  You'd want to scavenge onto something like desecration demon or lotleth troll and just go over they're blockers, and jarad can just fling the pumped up creature at their heads.  Deathrite can eat evolving wilds to help ramp up to an early 4 drop or she can eat cards out of your yard for value.  Grisely salvage does 2 things.  It can get creatures in your yard for varolz/jarad and it can also get something in your hand to pitch for lotleth.

6 Forest
4 Golgari Guildgate
4 Overgrown Tomb
6 Swamp
4 Evolving Wilds

4 Arbor Elf
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Varolz, the Scar-Striped
4 Lotleth Troll
4 Desecration Demon
4 Rot Farm Skeleton
2 Jarad, golgari Lich Lord

4 Grisely Salvage
3 Putrefy
3 Abrupt Decay

I've seen a list like this before and I never got what you're supposed to get out of the temple garden.  I ran a similar list and did okay at FNM.  I actually like cedric phillips list from a few SCGs ago. It's more of a jund aggro but I think it can be easily modified to just RG. IIRC he was actually running it as a red green and splashed black at the last minute.  I think domri is a good fit for this kind of deck too.  If you've play tested you're deck and you're comfortable with it then a drastic change like this probably isn't recommended.

http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdat … ckID=55192

For your deck. I'd go up to 20 lands minimum. If you're concerned about being able to burning tree/reckoner consistently then you can put in another temple garden but really I'd just put in another mountain. You have some 4 mana spells you want to be able to cast and doing that off 19 mana can be tricky imo. I would actually like to see 22 lands, but i just hate being mana screwed. 22 lands 2 being kessig is how I ran it. It was a good mana dump and trampling even for 1-2 was effective.

I think you want the 4th lightning mauler if that's your plan, to be consistent.  You could drop a ghor clan rampager for one.  He's there to give the surprise I win/tramp advantage.  You're most likely never casting him right?

If you're looking to be unblockable with madcap, i think i like gruul charm better it doesn't present the same 2 for one scenario the enchant does and it works for your entire board.  If you're using Madcap just to pump I think you'd be better with something like rancor. Rancor is cheap and it leaves you a mana up off a burning tree to cast something else.

Searing spear and pillar are fine I think. 

Sideboard.  I don't think you'll ever have enough mana to overload mizzium mortars, that's not the plan for it though right? It's a smiter killer?

I don't think I like gruul warchant.  Can you tell me how that's played out for you as a 4 drop, on the side?

You might _might_ consider running a couple blasphemous act on the side for a surprise blow out.  Test it and see what you think.

I like the rest of the sideboard.  You've got stuff for sphinx/thrag, tokens, volcanic str is a must.  Not a lot else you can do here.

Last thought, When I went rg aggro I did 22 lands, with thundermaws.  It was slightly more midrangy, but more resilient to the blow out.  I ran domri too. With your strat your balls deep into being aggro and there's no plan if you get blown out by something.  A good midrange deck like jund will probably still crush you the first game and with volcanic str on the side you probably still only stand a 50/50 shot the rest of the match.  I pilot jund mid most of the time and decks like this just don't scare me.  Only the nut draw really has a chance to beat me game one.

That's correct essentially.  Ætherling, has U: exile it return it at the end of turn, U: make it unblockable, 1: +1/-1 , 1: -1/+1

you'll usually pump it for damage and make it unblockable, or block and exile it to prevent damage or destruction.

It's one of the top 5 creatures out in the RTR block right now. Arguably the best.

I am by no means a master of modern, but it seems that 90% of the deck is also humans. 
Why not slightly alter the theme to be a "army/military" themed deck? soldiers, warriors, knights all humans.

Splash red for some more removal/options, add in some caverns like ty said  for the control match-up.

Any more diverse samples?  the spirit is nice, whispy and spooky in all the ways that a spirit should be, but how does a realistic image look like a human figure?  how about scenery?

Those kinds of samples, go along way to marketing the skills and service.