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you should go to the store, hang out look around... otherwise how will you know. In general people want to help new players.  Some stores even have loaner decks you can use (usually RDW).   Khans is good until Next Summer... it's not bad to have some.

Just stating this in case... Sealed is one of the 2 limited formats draft being the other.

In sealed you receive 6 unopened boosters and you attempt to make a 40 card deck from that "pool".  You can try to build a deck with what you open from a fatpack, it's likely to be better than a given sealed pool as long as you stick to 40 cards and just jam things that are similarly colored.

The people that don't read profiles probably don't read these forums...

I"m just wondering... without the BTR forum it's hard to know how rampant scamming is.  Whats the meta data?  What percentage of trades at any given time could be considered fraudulent?

We need to make sure it's visible when it happens, but I wonder if we're making it a bigger issue than it really is.

Back on topic, i think some combination of both restrictions is good. 3 Trades seems fine, not sure what a limit should be.  Ratings?  time on deckbox?  It is important however that the the 3 open trades need to be from start to finish and both parties received cards in good order.

I think the flag should be visible near the user name while looking for "trading opportunities", goes for selling cards as well.  And visible when proposing a trade.

First off, the only reason i mention the dragons is they're going to be around for a while and standard in general changes a lot, but i feel pretty confident that with the power level of the dragons in the current block that they'll be good for a while.  Investing in them isn't bad imo. 

About this deck specifically... just my .02 on this style of deck atm.

The mardu dragons deck plays sticky threats, backs them up with solid removal and trys to gain value off the synergy with dragons.

Creatures and Walkers:
Sarkhan is too tough on the manabase and not really worth the splash.

Bolt wing makes for too many 5 drops.  I'd cut him for some more solid removal.  Dragon whisperer is way too mana intensive to get any value out of him.  Another 2 drop like seeker of the way might be better.  It seems a lot of decks also use soulfire grandmaster which is nice, since  if you land them and cast a draconic roar you're gaining 6 . 

Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury does an okay impression of stormbreath and could be a sub, so could the red sarkhan.

Spells:
If your not playing 4xcrackling doom in these colors your doing it wrong

Sarkahn's triumph is a huge tempo loss in the early game, you don't want to be tutoring in this format IMO.   I also think thougthseize is a must and I know  it's a little pricey so you could just do , duress. It's not as good, but game 1 you'll likely get some value out of it, )Or you could do a split with despise and side board the other 2 for game 2.  Some read the bones or other similar draw spell wouldn't be too bad either.

mana: if you're going to be playing 2 colors and a splash of anything the 3 color lands are a must right now.  4x no less. but don't go over 8-10 tap lands or you risk drawing too many. obviously temples are better while their in the format to fix your topdecks.  Also, haven of the spirit dragon helps fix as well at least for the creatures.  24/25 lands is fine for a deck like this though.

Sideboard: 

crux of fate is really good because it allows you to play your threats and keep your opponents down and hopefully 2/1 them.  2 or 3 in the side would be ideal.  Anger of the gods or something similar is desirable too RDW will run you over.

To add to this, taking in consideration of your other post, and the fact that rotation is around the corner (3 months)

I think BW is okay right now while there are cards to support it.  Lands, strong removal in hero's downfall etc. But going forward I would keep my options open.  The dragon color pairs are more traditional and seem to be stronger atm, and as the commands won't be rotating for a long time, you might pick some of those up. 

origins is basically a core set so you won't see much multicolored/fixing there.  Maybe a land cycle if we're lucky. And then zendikar is next and it was almost exclusevely mono colored.  If that holds true, 2 color decks will be the norm and rare 3rd color splashes.

To expand on that.

Sounds like you want to be competitive with the deck at least some what.  Mardu agro isn't particularly great atm.  If you play it well then your win % will be decent because sometimes aggro just gets there...

IMO, The synergy with dragons right now is too good to pass up for an aggro deck.  Thunderbreak regent punishes your opponent for playing removal, and draconic roar is 6 damage for 2 mana which is extremely efficient.  For mardu; 4x thuderbreak and 4x stormbreath is about the only way I'd play it, and if you're just going warriors then I think you can cut the red to help your manabase, and use better removal.

Otherwise atarka red just does what you're trying to do here a lot better.

As for crackling doom, it's one of the best removal cards in the format and def the best in your colors hero's downfall notwithstanding.   It gets around opposing thunderbreaks, and esper dragons.  I think you're also playing way too many non creature spells for a straight aggro deck.  Iroas is hot trash and curving out at 4 for butcher then sacing your board to enable him isn't really what you want to be doing (yes, i realize the synergy with blood soaked, it's still not great, it's a huge tempo loss for you to enable him that way).

On blood soaked, I doubt your casting turn one blood soaked champion turn 1 very often with 7 black sources 4 of which come into play tapped.  Aggro decks live and die by their curve, if you can't curve out from turn 1 then you're probably not winning against a midrange deck. Rhino/courser/caryatid stone walls over half you're deck and you have about 0 removal for it.

It seems like you don't have a good sense of what you want to be doing with the deck, or it's heavily and specifically tailored to a very weird meta.

The concept isn't bad, but the deck needs refinement, particularly in the manabase.

Decks to look at.
Red/Gruul
http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=9796&d=256448&f=ST
http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=9768&d=256255&f=ST

Mardu
http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=9804&d=256539&f=ST
http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=9840&d=256715&f=ST

Boros (r/w)
http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=9663&d=255562&f=ST

Rakdos (b/r)

http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=9739&d=256042&f=ST

It's true that hitting double white or double black, or double green on turn 3, can be hard, even when running a full set of dual lands, which your not here.

@ ty

I stand by my suggestion of ramp cards. caryatids are better, but mystics will do if you don't have the caryatids.  The abzan midrange deck benefits greatly from ramping into larger threats, and everything OP says is that he like's the removal, likes the sorin, likes the colors, but like I suggested a couple times, the soldiers don't work, and the tribal strategy forced in these colors.  It really just needs to be a standard abzan midrange deck if he wants a removal/board control centric core. This is him needing to decide what direction to take the deck not of the strategy being flawed in and of iteslf.

And btw, Turn 1 mystic can produce turn 2 anafenza if you drop the mystic with a llanowar waste, but this strategy is better if you're running courser of kruphix over brimaz.  I've seen a handful of abzan decks run courser/brimaz/anafenza without too much trouble given the proper manabase though.   Just like in temur, sometimes, i'll hit a turn 2 savage knucks/courser/goblin rabblemaster... it doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it's beautiful. 

@ OP again, Like I said, the strongest soldier decks around are the heroic ones, anything else is just forcing a theme to work in places where those aren't the best options.  To put it another way, whites a fairly week color atm out side of a handful of cards, and the insistence of staying in these colors with this strategy, just isn't going to work like it could in other colors.

IMO, either stick with soldiers get into heroic and do that right, or get rid of the soldiers and head into a midrange abzan deck (honestly the way you talk, and the cards you have, talking about removal) you seem like you want the midrange abzan more, but you're stuck on making soldiers work.