User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 357: The Nine Demon Gates, Review and Commentary/@comment-33019320-20131025092425/@comment-7418318-20131025094543

Same here.

Though for Tartaros to target the former council members does make some sense, since they are the most likely to rebuild the council and thus bring the legal guilds back under a unified command.

Right now it could easily happen that the guilds are unable to agree on a single course of action, without a central authority to coordinate them. There are just too many guild masters around (just look at the UN and how the many members almost always manage to deadlock each other into inaction.)