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Well, my first suggestion is to use more cards in playsets. Attempting to run a deck in standard with mainly one-of cards in a deck isn't effective and you'll find that your deck lacks stability.
A few suggestions I can make:
-1 Ogre's Cleaver
-1 Warlord's Axe
-1 Viridian Claw
-1 Training Drone
-1 Strata Scythe (mainly I would use this in a monocolor deck)
-1 Stormtide Leviathan
-1 Quicksilver Gargantuan
-3 Spire Serpent

+3 Memnite
+2 Tumble Magnet
+4 ?

Just an idea. And generally if you're running equipment, you don't run so many.

i understand getting rid of some equipments and quicksilver gargantuan but the spire serpents seem pretty good being 5/7 for 5 mana so i dunno, and how would i end up killing them without my stormtide? it doesn't seem like it would have a win condition without those. so im thinking... (decks at bottom)

-1 spire serpent
-1 gargantuan
-1 ogres cleaver
-1 training drone
-1 viridian claw
-1 warlords axe
-1 accorders shield (i usually get more than enough to use strata)
-1 wall of frost
-1 disentome
-1 sleep
-2 brass squire

then plus these
3 memnite
2 tumble magnet
3 etched champion
1 darksteel myr
1 go for the throat
1 doomblade
1 duress

would his work at all?

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=177507

It's looking like it would be much more consistant now, which is always good.

And the reason I don't like the Spire Serpent is because it's expensive... too expensive for my personal tastes. If I'm going to spend 5 mana on a creature, it better have something more effective for metalcraft than "This creature loses defender". That comes down to personal preferance however.

Also, the Sleep isn't something you only want a one-of if you're actually going to use it. Drawing it up can mean a dead card in some situations, and in others, you just don't end up drawing a single copy soon enough. Again, this is a preferance thing... Normally I only run one-ofs if I can guarantee'd fetch the card. Nonetheless, keep working on it, and playtest lots.

One big key, playtesting, if you are playtesting and you cannot kill a "player" with no defenders by 7th turn, I would advise attempting to fix the tempo.

Hope I've helped :)

Thanks for the help! Today i had time to play 7 games against ppl at school and won 5 of them.
tonight im gonna test it in tournament play:)

and one of my friend is hating on my deck because i made a plan before trading for cards and apparently i should have used boosters to get them. what should my amazing response be?

2nd to a red burn deck :( But i still won a shiny FNM cool artwork Masters Call!