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Doran's pretty good at least in board if you're in junk, not quite as good in your build since you've got finks and confidant, however you're rarely attacking with confidant anyway.

Gaddock Teeg seems almost main-deck worthy, given that you're not running anything in the main deck that it hurts and it kills a lot of decks, I'm sure you know which, it's only really not that good against Tron and Jund, so that's worth considering as well.

I don't think that Phyrexian Crusader is worth a slot at all, what is it good against? Zoo? Maybe I'm missing something but it seems pretty bad. Leyline of the Void also seems better than Rest in Peace since 15 of your 23 creatures are either based off or benefit from the graveyard.

Where are you playing? This seems pretty darn good in a FNM-Type setting, I can't really comment on above that accept Inquisitions should probably be Thoughtseize and you should have 4 Goyf and 3 Knight of the Reliquary.

Don't forget Simic Charm which can protect from burn, act as removal, and protect from removal

While Elvish Archdruid can spit out TONS of mana without any real issues you're really relying on him to produce mana in general, Arbor Elf really doesn't get it done by its self even if you hit your ramp spells as well, Worldspire Wurm seems really insane, you're going to need 2 Archdruids along with a bunch of other elves out, I think that most of the deck seems really cool but the Wurms seem like they're very unlikely, the only place I could imagine them being cast would be in mono-green with Boundless Realms. Also maybe I'm just wrong but I think that you could really use Gyre Sage, at worst it's a 2cc Llanowar Elf but I would imagine that it usually gets up to at least 2 mana per turn and if you get a biomancer after you get a Gyre Sage it's going to be pumping out mana like crazy. I don't really think that Spire Tracer is worthwhile, Evasion is kind of nice but since it can't actually block anything with flying it's just an evasive 1/1 and you only have 2 creatures that can pump it.

Perhaps I am missing something and you just want to get a couple big creatures but I think that Soul of the Harvest would be a really good choice, it seems like the main thing that your deck doesn't have is card-draw and this is one of the best engines, you can go T1 Arbor Elf, T2 Archdruid, T3 Soul of the harvest, T4 dump like 10 elves onto the battlefield, sure it's the nut draw but you want to have an impressive nut draw in any deck and I'm not really seeing one for this one, T3 Zegana, draw 3???

My recommendation
-2 Worldspire Wurm
-4 Spire Tracer
-1 Craterhoof Behemoth

+4 Gyre Sage
+2 Soul of the Harvest
+1 Akroma's Memorial (Allows huge strings of elves off of soul of the harvest because arbor elves essentially cost 0 due to the haste)

I havn't played elves in standard since Ezuri rotated out so I could be way way off the mark but this is just what popped into my head, hope it helps

Well firstly I don't think you really need to worry about having a lot of humans, you've only got 4 cards in the deck that care about humans and so it's not really worth choosing humans over other cards when you won't always even get the cards that affect humans.

That being said I would say that Arbor Elf and Elvish Visionary are excellent choices. The visionary is good, not great but you really want to get to your big stuff as quickly as possible, another suggestion from me would be to add all of your cards with the ability "Extort", it allows you to gain life every time you cast a spell which is particularly good in a deck like this that wants to get into the late game, Elgaud Inquisitor and other similar cards are very good as well, he will gain you a little life (and therefore more time) and when he dies you get another creature. Ranger's Path is also very strong, it can ideally let you cast your Archangel on turn 4 (First either an arbor elf or avacyn's pilgrim or farseek, then on turn 3 ranger's path, then you have 6 mana for the next turn)

I would also say that you could use more ways to kill your opponent's creatures, Pillar of Flame, Prey Upon, Pacifism, Pit Fight, Brimstone Volly, and Searing Spear are all VERY good options, especially pacifism, these let you stop your opponent's creatures right away so that you can get yours out.

Finally if you're finding that your opponents tend to have a very powerful creature that can kill you very quickly Act of Treason is a very good choice as it lets you take that creature for a turn and kill them with it.

All of this depends on who you're playing of course, good luck and hope this helps

It depends on your meta, however where I play Jund is kind of the big thing, and Boggle doesn't fair very well with that simply because of Liliana, I think that people are starting to have a bit more sideboard hate against GOST especially since right now UW/UWR control is looking to be towards the top of the food chain. Soul Sisters is interesting, I've never played it myself so I can't really comment about how good/bad it is but I think that unless you throw in swords it's going to be fairly tough to do pretty much anything because of all of the removal in the format, your win cons seem to be Serra Ascendant ajani's pridemate, and baneslayer, not really needing to worry about your life total is pretty nice but I'm not sure how good it is with only 10 creatures that can win the game, with lightning bolt able to kill 8 of those (Assuming base stats of course). It also sounds like you're trying to move from soul sisters into more of straight up white weenie, it seems like a good move, but if you just throw Hawks and Swords I think it'll be trapped between 2 good archtypes and not do very well at either one.

I personally liked to be introduced to older formats with combo decks because they really demonstrate the difference between standard and older formats, since generally speaking, standard doesn't have any really good combos, it lets you see that older formats really do have a lot wider range of deck choices, I'm currently running Melira Pod and it's been very fun but Tron is usually a more consistent choice for combo.

Overall very fun looking decks, I think that either would work out well but practice ahead of time would be good for her, because in my opinion good opening hands in modern are less obvious than in standard.

Abrupt decay could be a decent option since it deals with early game aggression, farseek could also get your land kill spells going sooner

Doubt you're interested but I've got a MM Foil Dark Ritual, but as far as things you do want I have foils of Grafdiggers and x2 pithing needle (RTR)

Do you have normal ones that youd put toward a foil?

I have one from original Rav, but I don't really see anything on your list

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