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My brother is going to the world championship in Rome is a couple of weeks, and he hasn't done any testing

What are the decks he should consider for Standard (T2) and extended?

I know Jund sees a lot of play in T2, doe any deck beat it consistantly?

He wants to play combo in extended, is hypergenesis really that good? are there any other easy to play good combo decks?

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Jund is very popular in recent top8's of tournaments.. Look at this one, from StarCityGames.com's 5000$ Tournament:

1# Jund Aggro
2# Boros Bushwacker
3# Red Deck Wins
4# Jund Aggro
5# Jund Aggro
6# Jund Aggro
7# Vampires
8# Jund Aggro

Ofcourse these are not all the options, and you can't really base winning decks on top8 decks since there's a lot of other things that make decks win (i.e. bad hands, bad rolls, player skill, etc. etc.).

Beating Jund is all about control, since Jund decks are mostly dead-on aggro decks, with creatures and removal. Decks like this one could beat them. Ofcourse, you could play a mass removal sort of deck too, but question is if it would win against other decks too.

Another option would be the 'Lotus Angel' idea, which is based on, ofcourse, Baneslayer Angel and Lotus Cobra. An example can be found here. These have control and aggro packed into one deck, which makes them pretty powerful. It needs some getting used to though, so i'd advise play-testing it a lot.

Another tip with beating Jund, get a good sideboard! Cards that include anti-creature effects work great if you expect to face a lot of Jund-based decks.

Good luck!

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I'm really not following standard, but isn't there an Esper control deck? It can use some of the best removals in Alara, and has lots of recursion action. – ripper234 Nov 3 at 15:25
don't know of an esper deck, the jund and minor bant control decks are what iv'e seen, a little bit of grixis maybe too. Anyway my brother wants to play a control deck with luminarch ascention probably white blue and red, but i wanna see if there is anything better, +1 for metagaming! – rif-raf Nov 3 at 18:51
@ Ripper: I actually linked to that deck. (Decks like "deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=28858";) I literally mentioned that, read the friendly post! :D – Ancarma Nov 3 at 19:38

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