RTR Thoughts?

Definitely not just you.  I'm very much looking forward to opening up a box of RTR, but now I'm having a lot of trouble deciding what I want to play, because all of the guilds actually look really good.

Definitely.
Here's a few more spoilers:
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Makes me anxious for the other 5 guilds.

I'm with imsully on Detain as being weak relative to the other mechanics thus far.  I mean have you seen overload?  Not only has Mizzium Mortars made Searing Spear completely worthless, but the fact that either it or Street Spasm can produce Bonfire of the Damned results for just a few more mana... include Goblin Electromancer to reduce the cost of those spells, and you can see where an entire deck of Bonfire effects isn't too far off (although they likely made overload to control the demand for bonfires).

I don't think that the revealed overload cards are nearly as good as they seem, I mean think about facing a Mana Dork deck with either overload or a Bonfire, at worst bonfire for 3 kills every mana dork but it costs tons to kill all of them with overload, I think it's a really cool idea and I'm pretty excited about it for my EDH decks but for standard constructed, I don't see it making much of a splash without some sort of mythic one of that's actually good (Like Huntmaster for werewolves)

Detain however I'll stick to my original statement, the cards that use it just don't do enough, Tamiyo's +1 is good because it's repeatable without a negative consequence, that's when this type of ability is good (See frost titan) however I'm not sure if something that's 7 cmc across 2 colors without having a huge body is going to be playable especially since frost titan wasn't even played that much.

I personally like unleash, it's a perfect fit for the Rakdos guild's aggro, and black's sacrifice for power, you risk yourself for the chance to hurt your opponent more, my only issue is that none of the cards I see are that impressive

As a side note what are people's fav cards that are spoiled, Mine are the Hypersonic Dragon, Rakdos's Return, and Niv-Mizzet Dracogenious and the most disappointing is the new Jace, I love non-standard formats which he was clearly designed for but his utter unplayability in standard bugs me a little bit.

My issue with that is that I feel like by the time that you're up to his ultimate you should already have enough mana to hardcast Omniscience and he doesn't really buy you much time, especially since I play exalted he just doesn't seem too effective, I know they didn't want another Mind Sculptor but still

I think Jace 4.0 is alright.  I think there will be other things in Izzet's colors that will work with him, as I can't see where Wizards would make their favorite son totally irrelevant.  I can still see where his ultimate is a game winner, but you need to have something BIG to drop with it.  My first thought was Omniscience, but I can definitely see where you could toss in others like Avacyn, Griselbrand, Stormtide Leviathan, or even game winning spells.

I REALLY like Chromatic Lantern.  The fact it will remove/reduce much of the need to drop a lot of money for all those duals is nice.  Add in the fact it fixes those situations where all you're drawing is one color when all you need is the other... yeah.  It also makes Door to Nothingness potentially standard playable (go figure).

I'm also thinking Hypersonic Dragon will see some play.  I could see where it pairs with Worldfire as it can be played on the stack like an instant, letting you hit the opponent for one, stack Worldfire so it will resolve first, and thanks for the game.

I still don't think that Jace will see any standard play, not competitively at least, while he is fun and can be pretty dang good I think that without a way like proliferate to get him to his ultimate faster, he probably won't see any play. Worldfire would only kill if the other damage spell was not an instant since an instant would in fact go on the stack before the Worldfire, but the concept is interesting