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I'd say I'm more excited. I was mostly looking forward to Orzhov and Boros out of the block, and with both of them shoved to GTC, I had to find a guild to care about in RTR. That ended up being Azorius. I just wanted some top tier humans for my standard deck since Hero of Bladehold , Mirran Crusader , and Honor of the Pure all rotated. Not to mention, all of the good one-drops except Champion. Looking forward to more spoilers. I feel like we've barely touched on Boros.

hmmm I thought simic has pretty good cards that helps with both WBU and BUG. Dimir and Orzhov's mechanics pretty much screams "play Esper", boros and gruul both appeals to red/x aggro. Gruul gives more crazy creatures to Jund.

GTC is more about reinforcing current format, where I think RTR is more unique, though that might just because of Izzet. 

Cypher.

It would fit better as an Izzet keyword. (cast spells like crazy)  I think the flavor is a bit wrong with a guild that's subtle and covert rather than going all out guns blazing (which this ability is based on)
We could all think of a number of mechanics that would fit perfectly with Dimir. But since they won't put existing abilities because they think we won't buy the set if they do, we'll have to settle with this.

Saving grace, good synergy with extort.

Evolve.

Great flavor, simple and elegant mechanic. Limited constructed applications due to it's exponential nature. You either play some med-large creatures or you don't touch it. But overall well done. Not something that will have you on the ropes easily though. Dealing with it isn't hard. More of an issue in limited

Extort

Perfect flavor.
Ability is a skill trap.  Lot of players will lose games giving too much board position to their opponent, trying to trigger it as much as possible.

Batallion 

The flavor is good, but since it's combat based, I wish they had used a verb as the keyword. It's the most basic guild ability in RTR. It's is also the easiest to get around after evolve. And also encourages throwing yourself into mass removal. But it's in colors that take that risk anyway. I was wishing for something more exciting after radiance though. (Now that I think of it, they should have kept the original word, Assault)

Bloodrush 
 
Red and green are severly disadvantaged in the card advantage and versatility area. This doesn't give you CA per-se, but it's a trick that your opponent cannot counter and green does have hexprof creatures. Not as much of a deal for red since you could just play burn instead. But it gives green some reach without sacrificing the creature density in the deck. And it gives you choices during play beyond attack or not. And it'S totally gruul.

There aren't enough cards spoiled for me to comment on the set as a whole. But because there are always many options, it's hard for a multicolor set to fail.

Jan 10, 2013 -- 2:20PM, Nocculum wrote:

Very excited, and not just because my two favourite guilds, and colour combinations are present.

Shaping up to be a good year for Magic, I reckon! 

Dimir/orzhov?