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I think TyWoo has it right about now. The Hex Proof Elf from 2014 would be a good choice too.

Without Shocks you need to adjust your mix because you have a much weaker mana base. Especially for an aggro deck. I'd try going all green splashing white for Ethereal Armour, Eidolon of Countless Battles and maybe Unflinching Courage but that breaks your rules so I dont know.

I think your extra restrictions dont make alot of sense but its your prerogative. The thing is it will be very hard to make a competitive standard deck when you're restricting yourself from the powerhouse block of standard right now, heck even 1/3rd of Theros isnt released yet. So thats about the best advice I have unfortunately.

My last .02 is that if you are aiming for theros based competitive standard some sort of Boros Burn/RDW is probably your best bet.

Firedrinker Satyr
Satyr Firedancer
Minotaur Skullcutter
magma Jet
Searing Blood

They form a fairly solid core to a RDW type deck, though thats not helpful in a thread on Selesnya.

I forgot the bit where Ancient grudge only works because I assumed you would be splashing some R/G sources main board (Stomping grounds perhaps?) Other options include shatterstorm and shattering spree

Generally I would say if you dont know your meta take a sideboard that can affect as many decks as possible at least partially. You wont get as many deck crippling hose you over type cards but hopefully you'll be able to buff your deck against any opponent you face.

I dont personally like cage because it doesnt stop one of the premier combos in the game, that is Especially strong Vs. On the board turn sideways to win type decks. That is to say it doesnt hose living end and living end is a silly good deck when you dont have counters to stop it.

I also sort of assume that UWR Control and Storm are typically solid match ups for you in that they wont always have the killing power/speed to stop you. Especially storm which relies more on durdling around for a bit first. In which case crypts easily fill the slots of some removal in your deck and do enough to shore up the match (IMO)

Re: Ratchet Bomb. The thing is Affinity usually only runs ~10 cards ratchet bomb effects at 0. 4 of which are the same Legend and none of which are 100% integral to their game plan. On the other hand at 2. Ratchet Bomb hits: 4 Archbound Ravager, 4 cranial Plating, 2-4 Steel Overseer and I suppose 4 Vault Skirge, which are all pretty key in the deck.

If this isnt a standard format. I much prefer Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood as its so much cooler.

Have you seen the Blank foil card proxy thing? Where you strip the art off a foil common then print out the new art on acetate sheeting to put in the sleeve? Its pretty nifty way of doing nice looking proxies.

Shes quite good

Iona, Shield of Emeria
Would be another excellent angel to add though they are both quite expensive.

I've fiddled for abit now. I dont think this is ideal but I personally like this alittle more. I focused more on gaining life, making some tokens and then getting a wierd win con.

http://deckbox.org/sets/638911?s=i&o=d

you have more artifacts and ways to get key artifacts. Ways to sac out Child to Wipe the board when you're in a pinch and I got rid of some of the cards that need more mana to do things since you dont ramp very hard. I removed singularity and Heroes podium, its a neat combo but a bunch of your stuff benefits from generating tokens and tokens dont like Singularity. I think it could be a pretty wicked theme for another deck though!

I tried to stick to stuff that was in the $1-2 or less range since it sounds like you have a reasonable budget and these are the sort of pieces that are easy to pick up in the long run.

You can see a few pieces in the sideboard that I thought about but eventually decided to cut when push came to shove (also I put your commander in there so I didnt accidentally cut it!)  Obviously it still needs fine tuning but I think its a nice solid start that will synergize alittle better than what you had going on before.

You're right of course and I should have used my words more properly but I wanted to confirm before giving any advice.

The deck could work as is but there are certainly places it could be improved. Is there a specific reason you want to run child of alara? Is it just to get the 5 colors of angels in? Because in that case it seems like Maelstrom archangel might fit better as a commander. Alternatively Im not sure why you *need* all five colours Jenara, Asura of War is a nice card that lets you use most of the angels you have.

The one card I dont like:
Leyline of Singularity really only does stuff against Tokens, Shadowborn Apostle and Relentless Rats... so IMO its abit of a wierd choice.

your Mana base:
Alot of your spells cost alot and you're running under Lands abit. I'd look to take out some of the odds and ends from the deck and put in either some more lands or some Manarocks since you have a few ways to make your artifacts indestructible anyway.

I'd also look to diversify your mana base abit. You're scewed towards white creatures but your mana is entirely balanced.  Adding in the 10 gates and a Maze's end for example might be a good way to help out. There are certainly dozens of other options if you're inclined to help balance out your mana. (the Lair Lands, other duals and the like)

Sac Outlets:
A couple of sacrifice outlets might be a nice way to do use your Commander to board wipe if the board state gets out of hand. Perhaps Culling Dias Viscera Seer ashnod's altar

Theme:
The angel theme is fine but you also have alot of tools to play with artifacts as is and a commander that wipes the board so what about a few artifact tools and run a boardwipe, artifact sub theme.

With that in mind cards that might be useful to you....

Darksteel Plate
Fabricate
reshape
Diabolic Tutor
Aegis Angel
Restore Balance
Quicksilver Amulet
Summoner's Egg
Clone Shell
Coat of Arms
Decree of Justice
Cryptic Gateway
Angelic Page
Angelic Curator

If you'd like me to be more specific with what I'd personally do with the deck I'd be happy to.

4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
3-4 Glimmervoid
1 Island

Is the usual sort of array. if you were running without Mox Opals, I would probably make it 4 glimmervoid and also add in a swamp/mountain

If you go the white route instead of Galvanic Blast you could obviously use a plains.

The majority of Affinity cards are >$1 though so it adds up.

~$120 on the lands alone. 
He has the Steel Overseers so most of what he needs is Ravager and etched champion but still.

as a whole I like elements of the deck but Im not sure it will really do what you need it to.  I did a quick search found a bunch of cards...
piston sledge
Throne of Geth
spawning pit

Culling Dias
Jinxed Idol
pentavus
rackdos riteknife
Blasting Station

The first three in particular stood out to me as good options for the deck. Spawning Pit and Piston Sledge both have the advantage of being cheap and not requiring any mana or tapping to activate. This lets you run with just 1 Dross Scorpion on the board and a Myr Turbine for example.

Throne of Geth stood out for the proliferate.

Im not clear on how to make this deck win exactly but I think theres some decent elements here.

Finally I would definitately pick up playsets of Ornithopter memnite these are both super awesome creatures, that work great with this sort of deck AND they get you started into Affinity too which is not a horrible idea really.

another option which I think would be really cool would be to do a variant on Heartless storm. Using 2 Myr Retrievers, Heartless summoning and Something to Protect a disciple of the vault. The Retrievers cycle one another for free chaining damage from the disciple till you win.

In the end I'd look at a list something like this:

Land ~22
Artifacts 16
4 Spawning Pit
2 Throne of Geth
4 Springleaf Drum
2 Myr Turbine
4 Trading Post

Creatures
2 Dross Scorpions
4 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Myr Retriever
4 Disciples of the Vault

Spells
4 Thoughtcast

Seems like even if you kept the Bellows lizard in place of the cyclops thats still a really nice package to try and keep you alive early.

Personally I would main deck bile blight over Ultimate price. Or at least Id split 2/2.