Ultimate Standard Deck Tournament (World Cup #3)

Best T2 deck in magic history is either Academy or Memory Jar, probably Memory Jar. Memory Jar was banned so quickly it might not even deserve inclusion, but it did get played at some smaller tournaments before it was banned. The extended versions of both of these decks are much stronger, so they aren't unbeatable in Standard, they're just very likely to win. Try playing them against each other, it's intense!

Please take note: Academy was not included as it had already been proven dominant in previous tournaments.

Winner's bracket:

Loser's bracket:

Some decklists:

1999 Memory Jar (based on Luiggi Neiman's build, blended with some others) got banned

4 Memory Jar
2 Defense Grid
3 Grim Monolith
4 Lotus Petal
4 Mana Vault
4 Mox Diamond
4 Dark Ritual
2 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Megrim
4 Tinker
3 Brainstorm
3 Intuition
3 Voltaic Key
1 City of Traitors
3 Ancient Tomb
4 Rootwater Depths
4 Underground River
4 City of Brass
SB: 3 Lobotomy
SB: 1 Karn, Silver Golem
SB: 2 Defense Grid
SB: 2 Persecute
SB: 2 Pyroblast
SB: 2 Disenchant
SB: 1 Erase
SB: 1 Light of Day

1998 Academy (Andrew Johnson version, better in the mirror) got banned

4 Tolarian Academy
12 Island
4 Mana Vault
4 Lotus Petal
2 Mox Diamond
3 Mind Over Matter
3 Voltaic Key
2 Scroll Rack
2 Intuition
2 Brainstorm
4 Time Spiral
4 Windfall
4 Stroke of Genius
4 Power Sink
1 Capsize
3 Sapphire Medallion
2 Wasteland
SB: 1 Capsize
SB: 2 Rebound
SB: 4 Chill
SB: 2 Counterspell
SB: 2 Turnabout
SB: 2 Annul
SB: 2 Wasteland

2010 Planeswalker Control (Brad Nelson) contains cards later banned

2 Arid Mesa
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Glacial Fortress
7 Island
5 Plains
2 Sejiri Refuge
2 Tectonic Edge
4 Baneslayer Angel
4 Wall of Omens
3 Day of Judgment
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
2 Everflowing Chalice
2 Gideon Jura
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Martial Coup
2 Mind Spring
3 Oblivion Ring
4 Path to Exile
4 Spreading Seas
SB: 2 Celestial Purge
SB: 1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
SB: 1 Jace Beleren
SB: 3 Kor Firewalker
SB: 1 Kor Sanctifiers
SB: 1 Martial Coup
SB: 4 Negate
SB: 1 Oblivion Ring
SB: 1 Sphinx of Lost Truths

2011 Shrine Mono Red (Michael Tabler)

4 Shrine of Burning Rage
4 Chandra's Phoenix
4 Goblin Guide
4 Grim Lavamancer
2 Hero of Oxid Ridge
3 Kargan Dragonlord
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Searing Blaze
3 Staggershock
2 Arc Trail
3 Forked Bolt
11 Mountain
4 Arid Mesa
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Teetering Peaks
SB: 3 Manic Vandal
SB: 3 Vulshok Refugee
SB: 3 Act of Aggression
SB: 3 Combust
SB: 2 Dismember
SB: 1 Arc Trail

2008 Kithkin (Hannes Kerem)

17 Plains
4 Rustic Clachan
4 Windbrisk Heights
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
4 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Figure of Destiny
4 Goldmeadow Stalwart
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
3 Ranger of Eos
4 Wizened Cenn
1 Ajani Goldmane
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
4 Spectral Procession
4 Unmake
SB: 1 Ajani Goldmane
SB: 2 Burrenton Forge-Tender
SB: 2 Knight of the White Orchid
SB: 2 Oblivion Ring
SB: 3 Reveillark
SB: 4 Stillmoon Cavalier
SB: 1 Wilt-Leaf Liege

Jund (Reitbauer, Worlds 2nd pl. - There are probably stronger decklists, the one with more lands, for instance.) no bannings during standard. Later, in modern.

3 Dragonskull Summit
2 Forest
3 Mountain
2 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Savage Lands
3 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Broodmate Dragon
2 Master of the Wild Hunt
4 Putrid Leech
4 Sprouting Thrinax
3 Bituminous Blast
4 Blightning
1 Burst Lightning
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Terminate
SB: 3 Duress
SB: 4 Goblin Ruinblaster
SB: 3 Great Sable Stag
SB: 2 Jund Charm
SB: 1 Maelstrom Pulse
SB: 2 Thought Hemorrhage

2010 Mythic Conscription (Utter-Leyton, U.S. Nats) contains cards later banned

4 Celestial Colonnade
5 Forest
2 Island
1 Marsh Flats
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Plains
1 Sejiri Steppe
3 Stirring Wildwood
3 Verdant Catacombs
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Lotus Cobra
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Sovereigns of Lost Alara
2 Eldrazi Conscription
3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
2 Explore
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Mana Leak
SB: 1 Bojuka Bog
SB: 4 Celestial Purge
SB: 2 Jace's Ingenuity
SB: 4 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
SB: 2 Obstinate Baloth
SB: 2 Spell Pierce

2011 CawBlade (PVR) contains cards later banned

4 Celestial Colonnade
3 Glacial Fortress
2 Inkmoth Nexus
5 Island
4 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast
4 Tectonic Edge
1 Consecrated Sphinx
4 Squadron Hawk
4 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Batterskull
3 Dismember
1 Divine Offering
2 Into the Roil
1 Jace Beleren
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Mana Leak
4 Preordain
3 Spell Pierce
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of War and Peace
SB: 1 Batterskull
SB: 1 Celestial Purge
SB: 2 Condemn
SB: 1 Day of Judgment
SB: 1 Despise
SB: 1 Dismember
SB: 2 Divine Offering
SB: 2 Flashfreeze
SB: 3 Oust
SB: 1 Sun Titan

2003 RG Madness (Joshua Wagener)

7 Forest
4 Karplusan Forest
8 Mountain
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Basking Rootwalla
3 Grim Lavamancer
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Phantom Centaur
4 Wild Mongrel
4 Call of the Herd
4 Firebolt
2 Reckless Charge
4 Violent Eruption
4 Volcanic Hammer
SB: 4 Compost
SB: 2 Flaring Pain
SB: 3 Moment's Peace
SB: 3 Naturalize
SB: 3 Static Orb