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I'm trying to come up with a similar deck, but I haven't figured out which direction to go in.  At this point I'm thinking of building around Deadbridge Chant, Gaze of Granite, Whip of Erebos, Vraska the Unseen and Reaper of the Wilds.  Alternatively, there may be something interesting in building around Ember Swallower.

From a rules perspective, I don't believe that you can pay life for an effect that will cause you to go to negative life:

118.4. If a cost or effect allows a player to pay an amount of life greater than 0, the player may do so only if his or her life total is greater than or equal to the amount of the payment. If a player pays life, the payment is subtracted from his or her life total; in other words, the player loses that much life. (Players can always pay 0 life.)

Thanks for all of the suggestions.  I wasn't able to make changes until last night, and overall they were very helpful and led to a much better deck.  I have modified the UG deck to reflect my current list.  Overall it ran pretty smoothly, and I went 3-1 overall, losing 1-2 to the eventual winner.  If I had the Sylvan Caryatids I would have stood a much better chance against the red aggro deck that beat me.

I cut the Gyre Sages, Frostburn Weirds and Cloudfin Raptors.  I think that you're absolutely right that I should play to my strengths, and my strength should not be in trying to out-aggro someone.  Things went much smoother with the evolve creatures gone.  I couldn't get Sylvan Caryatids, but I think they would be the next change that I would like to make to the deck.  I added four Elvish Mystics, and they were great for getting Polukranos out on turn three or the Prophet on turn four.  They were much less clunky than Gyre Sage.  If Gyre Sage has a deck that it works well in, it is not this deck.

After my changes, I ended up at three Horizon Chimeras, three Prophet of Kruphix, three Wall of Frost and four Polukranos.  I think that those are the right numbers for the deck.  Prophet of Kruphix completely propelled me ahead whenever I cast it.  It meant that I could cast Divination or a creature and be confident that I could keep up mana for countering on my opponent's turn.

For spells I went to three Divinations, reduced the bounce element, and added in Dissolve.  Between Jace, Prime Speaker and the Divinations, there was plenty of card draw.  I would love to cut the Disperse for another Cyclonic Rift.  I'm not sure if any of the Simic Charms should be Cyclonic Rifts, as the +3/+3 mode was very useful as well.

Aetherize was amazing from my sideboard, and Fog let me win one game that I otherwise would not have won.  In an ideal world the Pithing Needles should have been Cyclonic Rifts #3 and #4 and two more counters.

I went in to the tournament thinking that I would trade off the deck after I was done, but I had a lot of fun, so I'm going to try to make that trades that I need in order to get a better mana base and the few cards that I'm still missing from my ideal build.  As a side note, there were four other players also running UG decks, though all fairly different from mine.

You could use Haunted Angel.  I'm sure that there are more that you're not using, but I can't think of any right now.

I'm going to go blue.  There seems to be very limited removal for the format, and bounce effects will be great with all of the mana that is going to be invested in some of these big creatures.

Make sure that your login hasn't expired and that you're signed out.  My guess is that if you're signed in that everything will appear as you expect.

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I would cut Guilty Conscience for some more land, mana ramp or, preferably, Land Tax.  That generally looks like a fun starting point, but I think that you'll find 20 land isn't enough, especially if you ever want to cast Inferno.  Try running through the Tools -> Statistics section and see what you think of the draws.

If you add Land Tax it might be worth replacing the Crystal Veins with some more basic lands, but the Crystal Veins do help you reduce your land count during the game to keep using Land Tax, so maybe they would be worth keeping in.  Alternatively, Remote Farm and Sandstone Needle play a similar role to Crystal Vein, though you can't use them the turn that they enter play.

If you join one of the communities then you will see matches of people that have things that you are looking for as well as the reverse.  The most common community is the reddit one, which you can join here:

http://deckbox.org/communities/reddit_mtg_trades

and you can see the list of all communities here:

http://deckbox.org/communities

If you're just playing with your friends that I think that going to a deck with lots of 4x cards that are straight burn is going to lead to some boring games after a while.  If you want to simply tighten up what you have now, I would cut down to:

22 Mountain

4 Goblin Arsonist
4 Gore-House Chainwalker
4 Krenko's Command
3 Mogg Flunkies
1 Young Pyromancer
2 Arms Dealer
1 Hellrider
1 Krenko, Mob Boss

2 Pillar of Flame
4 Searing Spear
1 Sudden Shock
4 Brimstone Volley
4 Flames of the Firebrand
1 Pyromancer's Gauntlet
1 Barrage of Expendables
1 Chandra, the Firebrand

Some of the cards that I removed are great in some circumstances, but mostly they will be lackluster, such as Quicksilver Amulet (not very impressive putting small Goblins into play) and Blightsteel Colossus (often uncastable).  Others simply were cut because there are better options already within your deck.  Sorcery speed direct damage is often awkward, so I would cut it when you can.

To improve the deck I would add:

3 Goblin Grenade
1 Krenko, Mob Boss
1 Hellrider
2 Sulfuric Vortex
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Mogg War Marshal

and cut:

3 Mogg Flunkies
1 Pyromancer's Gauntlet
1 Barrage of Expendables
2 Pillar of Flame
4 Searing Spear
4 Gore-House Chainwalker

You'll mostly end up with a goblin deck with a few unusual cards to add a little variety to the game.  At that point you could also consider adding some Goblin Cheiftan or some other Goblin lords.

I would check out this post for some general deck building advice:

http://deckbox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=10953

I would look at adding at least five more land to your deck, and maybe as many as seven.  Once you have modified your deck, go to the Tools --> Statistics section and draw some sample hands.  You should be hitting at least your first four lands on turns one through four a good portion of the time.

It looks like you need a couple more finisher cards -- something with evasion (unblockable, trample or flying) that can deal a decent amount of damage.  Alternatively, if you can get a Haunted Plate Mail or two (or something similar), those can great help make any creature a formidable threat.

Beyond that, just play some games with the deck and notice what's stuck in your hand at the end of each game.  Think about the cards that you never cast and figure out what would have been helpful instead of that card.

Just a quick question before offering advice, but what is the format for the tournament?  My guess is that you'll need to modify your deck, as I can't think of any format that allows two Fastbonds.