Modern Gifts of God

So its the same thing here as what I said on this deck: http://www.mtgvault.com/dknight27/decks/modern-mono-u-control-budget/
what do you want this deck to do?

Add 4x Celestial Colonnade and replace two Wrath of God with Supreme Verdict.also, if you're running Gifts, you might as well run the full package of 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria 1x Elesh Norn/Wurmcoil Engine/Griselbrand and 1x Unburial Rites

your only using gifts as a draw 2, i would add unberial rites, and a few targets.

As to my inclusion of gifts and why I'm not running any of the regular gifts combos, I've made plenty of decks like that and wanted to try something else.
I've had the hypothesis for a while now that gifts has potential in regular control builds to generate both card advantage and control combos with things like snap and gearhulk. Yes, it could be read as a 4 mana instant speed draw 2, but the grave effect makes it so much more useful in my opinion, especially for a control build that relies on tempo control and a decent supply of available mana. By running lingering souls, I can tailor my other 3 choices to counteract whatever deficit I've got going on and to chance the composition of the remainder of the deck, all while retaining card advantage. I've had some success picking 2 lands, lingering souls, and another copy of gifts, or a land, opt, souls, and gifts. In either case, opponent gets punished for basically every choice and you get what you want.
Now, I fully acknowledge that gifts is devastating as a combo setup, but again, this build is an attempt to test my theory that gifts is good as a standalone in control (with some minor acquisitions). We shall see how it plays out.

As for the colonnades, I know im in the vast minority of magic players for thinking so, but I don't think it's anywhere near as valuable as the current price would argue. Yes, its a win condition that doubles as a land, is immune to the rule of 3 damage, and happens to produce 2 of the 3 major control colors, and gains all the other advantages of man lands (immunity to stuff like abrupt decay, kozilek, etc), but the short version of my problem with it is this: I don't want to play it in the first 2 turns because I want the mana available (so I don't want it in my opening hand), and I would rather topdeck a card I can use for the turn, so I don't want to top deck it at all, meaning the only time I want to see it is while I have enough mana available for a counter/control element but not enough field presence/available resources to press forward with a win condition. Thus, I don't want to count on it as a land, or as a win condition.

Just my thoughts and an explanation of my choices. Maybe I'm dead wrong