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Well, I don't have the deck together, but I think I can remember most of it, at least in it's final form. I ended up going 5-1 with my G/u/w deck, losing to an efficient Aggro W/R/u deck. A lot of my games would go to stall outs until someone pulled a few cards to turn it all around, due to my strong on field control, especially versus the angels of the format. I did realize the day after that maybe I should have went with a different build, since I could have combined my two Nightshade Peddler's with the red enchantment that allows a creature to (Tap):Deal 1 damage to target creature or player (as well as the blue Soulbond guy that untaps creatures for (2)(u)). Also, I could have combined Ghostly Flicker or Peel from Reality with my Kessig Malcontents . Man, I feel stupid now. Well, here is the cards I remember from the  main deck:

2x Nightshade Peddler
1x Geist Trappers (Combined with the Peddler stopped most Angels in their tracks)
1x Gloomwidow
1x Abundant Growth
1x Eaten By Spiders
1x Flowering Lumberknow
2x Joint Assault
2x Lair Delve
1x Pathbreaker Wurm
1x Terrifying Presence (Amazing combat trick)
1x Timberland Guide
1x Trusted Forcemage
1x Vorstclaw
1x Defy Death
1x Divine Deflection (This card turn a few games around, even ending one game when my          opponent swung with his Malignus)
1x Nearheath Pilgrim
1x Goldnight Redeemer
1x Elgaud Shieldmate
1x Galvanic Alchemist
1x Into the Void
1x Spectral Prison
1x Wingcrafter (I love combining this with Flowering Lumberknot)
1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
1x Vessel of Endless Rest
10x Forest
3x Island
4x Plains (Due to the three double white spells)

I only had mana issues once or twice, but usually I had the lands I needed, or had the mana fixing I needed. Overall, it ran quite well, and I placed 9th out of 54 people (one short from the top 8 to play in the finals). Not sure if I would have been better off running some red instead of white, but Sigarda pushed me into white. My first game of the prerelease, I played her on turn 4, due to my Vessel. Overall, I had quite a bit of fun and enjoyed the overall slower games, due to the more tactical nature of them. I'd love to see how things would have went if I ran blue and red a bit more, but Sigarda pushed me into white quite a bit.

Thatcher Revolt + Riot Ringleader . The Revolt also makes Bloodflow Connoisseur less underwhelming.

Also, I noticed that anyone who opened Cavern of Souls used it to make a 4-color Human tribal deck, and the ones I saw seemed pretty good.

Black/Red deck 40 (8 S + 9 M)


Critters (14)
2x Demonic Taskmaster
2x Evernight Shade
1x Soulcage Fiend
1x Polluted Dead
1x Dark Impostor (1x Matchwinner)
1x Blood Artist
1x Demonlord of Ashmouth
1x Stonewright
1x Sombelwald Vigilante
1x Falkenrath Exterminator (1x Matchwinner)
2x Gang of Devils (1x Matchwinner)

Instants (2)
1x Necrobite
1x Death Wind

Enchantments (1)
1x Ghoulflesh

Sorcery (6)
1x Bone Splinters
1x Killing Wave
1x Essence Harvest
2x Pillar of Flame (1x Matchwinner)
1x Reforge the Soul

Made it 6th place of 32. (0-2, 2-0, 2-0, 2-0, 2-1)

implejr's Avacyn Restored Pre-Release Deck

I have been anticipating Avacyn from the moment it became clear this set would have a grip of angels, which was the theme of the first deck I ever built when I got into Magic last year. I got even more excited when spoilers began to trickle out and I couldn't wait to get a hold of some wolfir. Lo and behold, at my first pre-release on 4/30, while not a stellar draft, I did get to make the WG Angel Deck I had been wanting to make.

Creature Spells:

1 Angel of Jubilation
1 Archangel
1 Borderland Ranger
1 Emancipation Angel
1 Nettle Swine
1 Seraph of Dawn
2 Spectral Gateguards
1 Timberland Guide
2 Wolfir Avenger

Non-Creature Spells:

1 Abundant Growth
2 Banishing Stroke
1 Builder's Blessing
2 Call to Serve
1 Defy Death
1 Terminus
1 Terrifying Presence

Lands:

7   Forest
13 Plains

Results: 1 Tie, 2 Losses, 2 Wins, in that order.

Analysis

• There are a lot of 3-drops in my creatures and the Wolfir Avengers were the most useful creature cards I drafted. They could regenerate and made excellent soulbond partners and targets for Call to Serve.

• The angels performed quite well, especially Emancipation Angel which combo'd with Abundant Growth, Borderland Ranger and Timberland Guide.

• The buffing provided by Angel of Jubilation (better than Honor of the Pure, in my opinion) and the combo-buff provided by Spectral Gateguard's soulbond and Builder's Blessing made it difficult for me to lose by swinging.

• The miracles surprised me by just how handy they were in this format. Half of the rounds I won ended by clearing the battlefield with a Terminus and/or Banishing Stroke and then putting a creature down. My enemies couldn't get anything on the field for a few rounds and thats all I would need to pull off the win.

• The biggest problem with this set-up is that it was slow. I needed more land-get but the only things that helped were the Abundant Growth & Borderland Ranger. I plan to build a deck similar to this over the next coming weeks and I will definitely be adding more land get and combo things like Cloudshift and Emancipation Angel to take advantage of entering effects.

• The codename for my deck will be "Avacyn: Angelic Battlecruiser Online".

I went 2-2 playing U/R aggro/control. The same human tribal stuff in red everyone is talking about, plus a little control like Captain of the Mists or Wingcrafter . In hindsight, maybe I should have played W/R, but I'm not sure.

The first pack I opened had Griselbrand. I was specifically looking forward to him for a certain EDH deck I have, plus, of course, it's cool to open a mythic like that right off. I was really tempted to play him, and I did have some green mana acceleration, but my black card pool wasn't all that great otherwise and my green was even worse.