It's not that Drogskol Reaver isn't good; it is. I use it in my Bant Ramp/Control deck, and he's a machine. I'm looking to play with 3 next FNM. It's just that people are sheeple and follow the herd and only use the bombs that the Tier-1 decks are using. But there's no legitimate reason to not use it now, since Dismember , Doom Blade , and Go for the Throat are all out of Standard. Now the only thing that kills it reliably is Dreadbore or a lot of burn.

I'd drop the black entirely, give up on the Lingering Souls . You can replace the Swamp s with Moorland Haunt s and the Evolving Wilds with Azorius Guildgate s that way. Of course, your mana base would love all four Hallowed Fountain s, too, but that'll more than double the price of the deck. Replace Lingering Souls with 4x Midnight Haunting for the surprise factor as well as being easier on colors. Especially if you have Drogskol Captain out, you'll often get fortuitous blocks out of it.

also, in playtesting if you don't have enough four-drops, consider Clone . I know, it's much worse than Phantasmal Image was, and it's not really an improvement over Cackling Counterpart , but for one extra mana it will occasionally kill a Geist of Saint Traft or other legendary creature, and it'll give you another captain mid-game (for one extra mana), or Drogskol Reaver late game for 3 less mana, so you don't have to spend all your mana flashing back Cackling Counterpart , you'll have 3 or 4 open for counters.

Also, I've given up on Standard pretty much. But I've kept a spirit tribal deck together just for fun. I use Call to the Kindred because I don't intend to be too competitive, but if you want to be, I just don't think that card is going to work out.

Uhmmm, Sphinx's Revelation + Drogskol Reaver = winning?