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A few thoughts here.

First, I don't know that this would really be all that viable without a way to force add counters to Azor's Elocutors.  You could easily have it to four counters and someone casts Unsummon - there went all your stalling spells for nothing.  Similarly, as it loses counters for each source that deals damage, they could easily cast a burn spells to drop a counter here or there.  If more than one creature gets through, you're done.

To that end, I think the deck that makes them run will either be more control based with a LOT of creature removal or use the crap out of the detain mechanic.  Given that there are only so many sources of detain, I'm thinking control is the better option.  But then again, this is the beauty of rotation, right?  Nobody knows what will and will not work just yet.

Third, is there an alternate win con here?  What if they see what you're doing in game one and then just wait to cast Murder on the Elocutors?  Then what?

Anyway, more specifically, I would drop Divine Verdict in favor of Oblivion Ring - it costs one less, doesn't have to wait for them to attack, and proves more versatile against other possible threats.  Detention Sphere needs to be 4x.  That'll be pricey, but it takes care of all their tokens or something else dangerous easily.  Syncopate really isn't what it's cracked up to be.  It might exile their spell if you counter it, BUT, it requires you to keep a lot of land free.  I'd drop it to 2x and the New Prahv Guildmage to make room to up Azorius Charm to 4x as the ability to unsummon their creature AND take away their next card draw will be paramount.  That and it telegraphs what they will be playing so you can use Judge's Familiar, Syncopate, Cancel, and Dissipate more effectively.

Definitely a neat idea and I wish you the best of luck with it.

On a side note, this could splash red and take advantage of Goblin Electromancer to make things like the overload cost on Cyclonic Rift much easier to work with.

I'll second imsully on the G/W deck.  You have it pretty well configured that it's going to be spitting a LOT of mana at you.  The question then becomes, what to do with said mana.  There are countless big angels in white to run with and green certainly never disappoints with some of the wurms and whatnot they have.  For the time being this will work, but you'll likely want to look into picking up a few large angels (Serra Angel/Archangel/Requiem Angel/or Avacyn, Angel of Hope) or just creatures (Craterhoof Behemoth maybe so you could rush them - that or even something as simple as Duskdale Wurm or Moldgraf Monstrosity to ensure all those lands go to something productive).

For the B/R deck, I think it's still lacking focus.  Look at the 1x cards and try to imagine the scenarios where you would play them to be effective.  For example, Kindled Fury - definitely a sneaky card in sealed, but you only have one of them and it's not likely to be a big deal breaker, especially when you're sitting on 2x Vampiric Fury (which also raises the question, why is Slaughter Cry even in here if Vampiric Fury accomplishes the same goal but better (it's ALL vampires you control) for one less mana?  I'd focus on getting one deck running nicely before diving off into 3-5 others as this can get pretty pricey rather quickly, especially if you're looking at making things competitive at FNMs (a key example, Woodland Cemetery just went from $5 to $12 in about two weeks and you can't order them fast enough - all because people want to play Golgari in RTR).

I'd be interested in anywhere from 2-4x of Jarad depending on what you want for them.

Very cool.  Talk about a board-wipe deterrent.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

First off, I'm not going the route of anything rotating as next week is an M13 draft at my LGS and then rotation is the next weekend, meaning there isn't much point in picking up any Beast Within or anything like that.  Additionally, I wasn't getting too discouraged by losing, as I'd rather play an original idea and get destroyed than use the SAME crap everyone else is playing.  I was discouraged to see the exact same three decks deck make up the entirety of the group .

That aside, I actually have to chuckle to some degree as I know at least imsully gave comments to the opposite of what's now being said about both decks.  But I digress, I'm thinking the G/R likely isn't worth running outside of casual as it really requires a near perfect draw to be powerful.  In this cases it certainly does work well (an 8/8 flyer on turn 3 is never a bad thing), but beyond those, I really need to figure out a secondary win-con or something. 

To the debate between Increasing Savagery and Blessings of Nature I'm firmly rooted in the savagery camp - you pay four for five counters and you KNOW it will cost four.  Blessings is a hit/miss card.  You pull it for the miracle and it rocks, but otherwise, it's one more for one fewer counter (and you can't flash it back).  Given that I'll likely be moving to G/B counter ramping with Corpsejack Menace in about two weeks I've spent a lot of time thinking about it.

For the G/W angels - it really is aimed to ramping for the angels.  The only token generator is Thraben Doomsayer who is there to provide  a) chump blockers or b) a guaranteed hit for Mentor of the Meek to help draw and c) a guarantee that you will have humans for Angelic Overseer.  To that end, I'm tempted to drop Descendants' Path for more mentors and possibly Nearheath Pilgrim to keep the player alive until the angels start dropping.  I'm resistant to the Rancor love fest for this deck because it's designed to ramp up to big flyers to begin with.  And, as you said imsully, you drop a Gisela, Blade of Goldnight and the majority of games are done.  The biggest problem I have here is that most the adjustments I'm looking at are in white, which knocks the balance even further away from green.  But ideally you want to have green on turn one for the pilgrims.  Perhaps some Nightshade Peddler to deter them from attacking or something.

For the delver debate - I can see where Dryad Militant will be in the sideboard for almost EVERY non-delver deck to reduce the threats of flashback - which would sort of kill your Burning Vengeance deck imsully.  I don't see delver dropping off a ton, but I think that the guilds are going to pull enough players to different color combos that we MIGHT see something original here and there.  I can say that Azorius is sitting on some SICK cards and yet almost nobody I've seen is talking about the guild... go figure.  Detention Sphere alone is almost reason enough to play that guild.

As far as whether you've "sold out" or not, there's nothing wrong with playing sought after cards if you pulled them (hell, it'd be daft not to).  I really look at this from the "could I net deck this?" standard, and, I don't know that you're going to see many tri-color decks in standard until AFTER RTR hits, so to that end, nah, I don't think you've sold out here.  The simple fact I don't see either Delver of Secrets or Snapcaster Mage in here means you're good in my book (I saw roughly 1/3 of the decks at FNM the other night playing them).

Now for the deck itself, I think you would want some added removal in whatever form you can manage.  In my own experience from this past week's games, if they dump a Phyrexian Obliterator or something else huge on the field, outside of a bonfire or Oblivion Ring what's the play?  I'd up the O-rings to 4x, and have 4x Pacifism or even Terminus in the sideboard in the event something worse happens.  I wouldn't be afraid to go down to 22 lands as you have 4x Avacyn's Pilgrim which may as well be a land.  You could use those spots for the added removal.

Two concerns: 1) What about those damned delvers?  Outside of the angels, which strike me as your later game plays, you don't really have much in the way of flying defense.  It sucks that you have to plan for them, but that is the reality of the current standard meta.  2) I'm not seeing any sort of draw assistance to help you cycle through the deck.  To that end I would recommend 2x Mentor of the Meek - if I was able to take anything good out of last week's FNM, it was that this guy is a BEAST, especially when you have a lot of creatures with power 2 or less (which you certainly do).

Anyway, I hope that helps.

I know that when I got back into the game about 6 months ago I unloaded all my duals from revised.  Sure, they're cool to have, but unless you're going to drop the cash for 4x of each to be competitive in legacy that's a $60-100 card that you can only use in casual games.  Thus, I'd trade it.

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For the searching, I would imagine it's being improved, but that's up to Sebi when the next version hits.

Alright, having just looked at your inventory, you're sitting on enough multiples of a LOT of really quality commons/uncommons that could power a solid deck.  Personally, if I were you, I would try to figure out what you want to go for and then I'd unload that Snapcaster Mage from your inventory as people will give their first born child for one - meaning you can likely pull a significant number of rares to piece together 1 or 2 less expensive decks.

I would scrap the idea of a mono-colored deck entirely.  I don't see enough quality pieces in just one color to take that route, but if you were to go for a two colored deck, your options are plentiful.

One option would be to go black-red (which will be the Rakdos guild in RTR - you'll get hooked up with good cards).
You're sitting on 3x Vampire Nighthawk, 4x Demonic Taskmaster (who would pair with those 4x Krenko's Commands quite well), 4x Murder (always a good sign), 4x Heirs of Stromkirk and 3x Stromkirk Captain to name a few.  That's already the basis for a pretty solid R/B vampire build.

Another would be to go white-green (which will be the Selesnya guild in RTR - another good option).
There you're sitting on some quality angels (Restoration Angel, Seraph of Dawn, Voice of the Provinces) and some other good token generator spells (Midnight Haunting and even one Lingering Souls) in white.  Those would all be a good start given the populate mechanic coming up.  In green you're sitting on 4x Arbor Elf, 4x Borderland Ranger and 3x Avacyn's Pilgrim for ramping.  You also have a wealth of other treasures in Elvish Visionary (which pairs BEAUTIFULLY with Roaring Primadox), Titanic Growth (which pairs nicely with Prey Upon), and Pathbreaker Wurm (which is underrated but can be a definite game winner, especially if you bond it with something nice).

In blue you're sitting on 4x Talrand's Invocation, 4x Stormbound Geist, 3x Mind Sculpt... lots of possibilities here to pair with red (for Izzet).

You're really sitting on a LOT of the pieces you would need to build a pretty good deck.  My suggestion would be to pick one of the color combos that will be represented by a guild in RTR so you can pull greater value when the set hits.  Then pick a few combos and run with them.  We'll help you flesh out the details once you get the framework of a deck put together, but it all hinges on how you like to play, what your style is, etc etc.  But, everything else aside, dual color is the way to go given what you have.

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