One card I've always wanted to play is Arashin Sovereign. I think that might actually be the answer I'm looking for. Against control decks this deck is all about grinding out creature threats every turn and trying to gain an advantage, so it makes sense to just keep that going. With Evolutionary Leap and 8 lands you can effectively return Arashin Sovereign to your hand to save it plus draw a new card for turn. It loses to a counter spell or opponent chosen discard, but so does pretty much everything. The problem with this is that I can't likely do anything else on a turn I cast a 7 drop and the opponent can likely kill it and do something else late game.

If I'm not mistaken the interaction would be: I cast Arashin Sovereign with Evolutionary Leap in play. At some point The opponent casts a removal spell targeting Arashin Sovereign and I respond by sacrificing it to pay for Evolutionary Leap's ability. Arashin Sovereign dies and goes to the top of my library, Evolutionary Leap's ability resolves and I reveal Arashin Sovereign and put it in my hand. The removal spell resolves and fizzles. Next turn I do it again until the opponent hopefully runs out of removal for a turn.

Check out this Channel Fireball article about a very familiar looking deck: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/attack-the-first-week-of-standard-play-gw-aggro/

It's basically this 75 but they jammed in 3x Archangle Avacyn even though it kills every creature in their deck

If I were you, just for some token generation and good pummeling tools, Avenger of Zendikar in lieu of Arashin Sovereign.

Granted you get tokens based on your land but Arashin Sovereign seems to be a little...out of place in this deck. It serves no purpose, to me, other than having flying and being able to cycle back into your deck. Granted, it's great for saccing and cycling.

However, I think getting seven 0/1 tokens that get buffed by playing a land or that I can sac, would help more. If there was a way to add in a quick bounce without breaking the balance of the deck, it'd be great to play the following turn onto Avenger. Even with cycling your creatures, using Sovereign to cycle in the Den's or Deathmist's seems slow as you have to wait to draw him. Avenger hits for his mana cost...that's 7 sac tokens. Even with only four lands out and you sac something to drop Avenger, you now have 4 sac opportunities and a 5/5 out too.

Thanks leon_bulminot, Avenger of Zendikar looks awesome! I've never seen it before, clearly a great combo with Nissa, Voice of Zendikar. Unfortunately this is a SOI standard deck and Avenger of Zendikar rotated out long ago.

I haven't actually tested Arashin Sovereign yet, but I think it might be great. It's far from a big blow out win condition, but it will let me continue my defensive slow recursion them into the air in the late game. I like how Arashin Sovereign can trade or kill almost every creature people will play. I'm going to test this list at FNM tonight, just with something in place of Declaration in Stone

@PlagueRats Crap. Reprinted in the BFZ Duel decks so I figured they'd have him in the set. Oh well lol

Hangarback Walker is fairly amazing with Evolutionary Leap. +1 for mainboarding the leap though, one of my favourite cards.

DaftVader, I played Hangarback Walker with Hardened Scales and Evolutionary Leap for a long time, that was great! Here I find it's too slow, in a deck that's already fairly slow. I find I usually tap out from turns 2 - 5+ and so ticking Hangarback up would come at the expense of doing something else. Maybe it is the best option to side in against aggro flyers if that's a thing going forward.

At FNM last night I got completely destroyed, I faced 3 very good pre-rotation aggro flyers decks in a row. Declaration in Stone would have helped a lot in a couple games. First match I couldn't stop or get much past Mantis Rider, 2nd match it was temur flyers, those two red phoenix's, 3rd it was aggro thopters, that was rotation friendly so I'll have to face that again. In that match up if I played Hangarback Walker I could have maybe bought myself one or two turns of defense, but I need to find something better if the format has many aggro flyers.

Either lifegain and/or a flyer like avacyn could help you. Maybe Lantern Scout.