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It looks very similar to a Jund type deck. The only Issue I see is that you both lack any form of healing, and have included a higher mana curve in general. Perhaps you'd be better off with dropping 2-4 of the Cryptic Command for something else?

Arbor elf is another one of those cards that would be pretty clinch with Shocks. But Elves of Deep Shadow or Avacyns Pilgrim may be better as a way of manafixing (Since you'll have green for the elves either way right? but you may need 1/2 mana of another color.)

Edit: A Dryad Arbor or two wouldnt be remiss either...

I dont really see the use that Austere Command has over say Wrath of God/Damnation.

In a Boggle match up you should be killing the hex proof guy anyway. In an affinity match up you're nuking the artifact creatures either way. Wrath/damnation is 2 mana less. And you have no creatures to protect using the modality of Austere Command.

A few shocks would make this deck work alot better but I understand that not everyone can afford to drop a wad of cash on this game.

Finally Im not really clear on the planeswalkers. They're all cool walkers that is true but what does each one add to the deck? Ajani and Sorin both work pretty well. But Im not sure about the rest. What about trying to do two of each of them and then some Elspeths and end up flooding the board with tokens mid game as your win con?

It also seems to me like you may run out of gas mid game which is not really ideal for a control deck. Im not sure how to correct that issue but its something to consider.

just keep at it man. you'll get out sometime and you'll find its not as bad as it seems.

true I run Zareck in a R/U tempo and he works a treat.

If we focus on Dreadbore as a potential walker killer (which seems to be the focus of most people in regards to Hero's). I think its perhaps more useful. You cant nuke a walker before its ability goes on the stack (I dont think?) so Dread Bore frees you up early game to drop some hate on your opponent some other way before your turn and then bang walkers dead and late to mid game keeps that extra mana free so you could Dreadbore and then say Divination.

Thats not to say that Downfall is bad just that I think Dreadbore may be more useful in a control type setting.

nearly half your lands produce black. Im not sure I see how it would be that hard. Especially if you figure that these are the supposed cards that have proven to everyone that 'aggro is dead' (hyperbole much?)

what about the new Black AOE removals?

I wouldnt worry about Shocks you're gonna be first turn dropping a tap land probably.

Edit: http://deckbox.org/sets/596747

That would be more my speed on the deck.

Notable changes: Reduction in # of High Cost Minotaurs!
Addition of Kragma Butcher
Addition of Death Bellow Minotaur
Addition of Fall of the Hammer
Tweaked Land Balance, Your only black was fellhide and Warcaller.
Oracle is cool but cant cast Mizzium mortars on Overload so isnt really...great. Most of the time he'll end up being a 3/1 Haste for 4. Thats not really...good.

Im not even entirely sold on Mizzium mortars in the deck TBH. Alot of the time you can get similar damage out of Fall of the Hammer. You'll probably never cast mortars on overload and scry 2 on Magma Jet is really key to making sure you're not pulling dead drops

Edit:

it also occured to me R/W Minotaurs might be pretty good...
http://deckbox.org/sets/596556

This!

One thing to consider on the Countering your Mill stuff.

It could be helpful I suppose but there are plenty of useful creatures that can provide mill stuff in their own right or offer other useful effects to help you keep fighting that will always give you some benefit. Abolisher is sort of a catch all that tries to protect your spells but isnt always helpful. Its not bad by any means but largely depends on your local meta. It sounds as though you're just getting started and you arent terribly competitive so lets look at some cheap (or possibly free if you get in touch with me!) Options that could be useful.

Hedron Crab
Merfolk Looter
Merfolk Mesmerist
BellTower Sphinx
Brain Freeze
Cathartic Adept
Codex Shredder

Another thing you may want is creatures that can block for days to keep yourself safe while you work on going mill mill mill.

Yoked Ox
Kraken Hatchling
Guard Gomazoa
Fog Bank

and the grand daddy of all for funsies mill people and make them mad cards is never a bad move!
Traumatize

I didnt mean to say that Mill is -good- just that people like it when they are first starting because it is more concrete than life damage. Think about the number of people that have serious issues saving money when they buy everything on credit/debit cards that can save perfectly well if they do all their transactions in cash.

Conceptualizing things like life or money in the bank is hard for people in general. Its part of what makes mill appealing even if it isnt the best way to play. Especially when you're first getting started!

I've been fiddling for abit and I decided that perhaps the Descendants path/Mutavault/Congregation was really just too many moving pieces with too much mana investment. So I started looking for other options.

This is when I noticed Djinn of wishes

And so take 2 on this deck was born. Congregation + Djinn is less card intensive (you need 1 Congregation to go off) but does take alot of mana. I felt like the best mana dork of the bunch was caraytid so I started looking for another 2 drop like it. The best I could find was Wall of Roots but I think it fits the bill nicely. The only thing Im left questioning is Lingering Souls I may try and put in some sort of counter suite in its place.\

http://deckbox.org/sets/591841