I wouldn't say Buried Alive is absolutely necessary, but it does help quite a bit. If you're relying on delirium skeins to get him into the graveyard, it requires that you get both him, and the skeins in hand by turn three or so. Buried Alive is generally better, because it allows you to search up a copy from your library, and get two bonus knights in the process. Skeins will give you less options, unless you somehow end up with all three copies of Haakon in your hand. Additionally, I'd suggest adding some of the cheaper knights that might be useful against certain foes, like Black knight, or Silver knight. They won't get the flanking bonus of the cavalry master, but they're solid, especially against certain colors. I think you could get away with arcane sanctums, though I'd probably add them to the lands you've already got. If you can manage to find some marsh flats, I'd suggest putting them in, but that's not exactly a budget friendly solution.
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My favorite (only real) cat lord is Raksha, Golden Cub. Gives them +2/+2 and double strike, but you would need to throw in some equipment to make it work. Kinda expensive too.
Yeah, you're right. Probably would drop... maybe some extra land to stick it in. There's just enough white creatures in there to make it useful.
I think the mana base got flipped around, since I can't see a reason for more plains than islands. Other than that, I think my favorite part is the fact that your side board is... more counters! Plus some traps, too.
Well, since your mana curve seems to top out at about three, I'd say you probably don't need 22 lands. In fact, all of your slivers are under two cost, so you could probably get away with less than twenty lands in this deck. Alternatively, you could still drop a few of the lands and add in some slightly high cost slivers. After all, with an Essence sliver, Might sliver (or two muscle/sinew), and Horned sliver (all of which are in your colors), you can duplicate your armadillo cloak for your entire army. It's a good deck, but could use some modification, specially with figuring out exactly what you want out of it.
Thank you, though when you're working with just two drops and smaller, it's a bit hard to get too fancy. Add to that the restriction I made myself of putting as many allies as possible in, and only two colors, and it got pretty damn easy.