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Jund is a powerful aggressive deck that aims to overwhelm the opponent with a plethora of powerful creatures and spells on every turn.  All of their threats are either far above the curve in terms of P/T to CMC ratio or absurd card advantage machines that laugh at traditional removal.  Jund isn't simply dumb aggro, however, it employs disruptive spells that can catch an opponent by surprise from its signature mechanic, Cascade, such as Blightning or Maelstrom Pulse. 

A typical Jund game will lead with a tapland, which explains the lack of one mana spells in the deck, (not to mention there simply aren't very many in Standard to use) but playing 4/4s on turn two usually recoup the lack of a beater on turn one.

At the moment, Jund is the undisputed Best Deck in Standard and it plans to stay that way, remaining the most played deck in Tournaments all over the world.  If someone wants to win a tournament, the options are simple: play Jund, or play a deck that beats Jund (good luck with option two, there aren't many).  

As Jund hasn't missed a single top8 so far in Standard, there are dozens of decklists to choose from.  In order to not stretch out the first post, I'll post links to them:

Jack Wang's SGC 5k 1st Place list: magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=...

PT Austin's LCQ Decklists (Jund was 3 out of the top4): www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.a...

The core of the deck is as follows: 

3  Dragonskull Summit
4  Forest
2  Mountain
4  Rootbound Crag
4  Savage Lands
4  Swamp
4  Verdant Catacombs

4 Putrid Leech
4 Blightning
4 Sprouting Thrinax
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Lightning Bolt
3+ Maelstrom Pulse 
2+ Broodmate Dragon

Besides that, there is some flexibility to the list.  Some choose to run maindeck Great Sable Stags, others maindeck Terminates or Garruk Wildspeaker.  As long as you've got the cards I've listed above, though, you're in good shape to win.  

The sideboard almost always is going to contain the following:

4 Jund Charm
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
x Great Sable Stag (if not maindeck)

Again, other than that, there's flexibility.  Duress was a popular choice, Deathmark has popped up in a few lists, and Thought Hemorrhage has been seen as well. 

If you have any other questions about the deck, feel free to post in this thread and I'll answer 'em.

UPDATE: Worlds came and went, and Jund managed to take 50% of the top Standard field, more than Affinity or Faeries ever did.  With Worlds came some new technology utilized in Jund lists.  Here are a couple notable examples:

www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=30043 - David Reitbauer's 2nd place list, using 2 Master of the Wild Hunt and 2 Oran Rief in the maindeck, with a fairly predictable sideboard

www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=30046 - Saito's Rampant Jund list using, of course, Rampant Growth at the expense of Putrid Leech to ramp into a full set of Broodmates and some Siege-Gang Commanders. 

www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=30044 - Marijn Lybaert's Jund with a Borderland Ranger main, a card that some American players were using multiples of maindeck.

So basically, post Worlds, we have Master of the Wild Hunt, Rampant Growth, Borderland Ranger, and Siege-Gang Commander as cards to try out.  Happy testing, people. 

UPDATE2: Well, another PT, another dominating performance by Jund.  Jund took first and second at PT San Diego, and here are the decklists:

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How do I beat this deck?

Nov 1, 2009 -- 2:49PM, Glux wrote:

If you can contain it's aggressive draws, usually with Walls of Denial or War Monks, and then play cards that can out attrition them or wipe their hand, you have a good shot at victory.

Another path is just straight up playing way faster than they do.  Red Aggro is a tough matchup, and Boros is pretty even.

Personally I don't have issues controlling the agro, it's the Blightning/Pulse/Duress (game 2-3) "oh look I'm an angro/controll deck now" that I have issues with. Unlike a standard agro deck, Jund's ablity to generate Temo and CA at the same time is fierce.

Blightning is back in now... for a while, nobody was playing it. I need to look at some lists to update my version.