Affinity (lots of artifacts aggro) Memnite, ornithopter, Mox Opal, Arcbound Ravager, Ensoul Artifact, Steel Overseer, Cranial Plating, darksteel Citadel) - Remove their most threatening Artifact and pressure them. Bring in artifact and creature removal. - Deglamer, Bow of Nylea, Dismember, Krosan Grip.

Burn (Monored spells that deal damage to the face) Lightning bolt, Eidelon of the Great Revel, burn spells. Gain life and pressure them. Bow of Nylea, nyleas disciple, thragtusk.

UWR Control - Removes your creatures and counters your spells until you have no threats, then kills you with celestial collonade manland and lightning bolts. side grindy threats - Garruk, Primal Hunter, Thrun, the Last Troll, Thragtusk.

Birthing pod - GWB Plays lots of  value creatures and lots of ways to search for the best one. be caureful, they can search for Archangel of thune and Spike feeder to gain infinite life, try to keep up removal. Add removal and grindy creatures - grafdiggers cage, deglamer, dismember, garruk, thragtusk.

Rock (GBx) - Tarmogoyf, Dark Confidant, Liliana of the veil, abrupt decay, sometimes lingering souls. They remove your creatures and Kill you with resilient threats. Use hard to remove threats and graveyard hate for lingering souls and tarmogoyf- Relic of Progenitus, Thrun, the Last troll, Garruk, Primal Hunter, Thragtusk, dismember (for dark confidant).

Tron - GR or UW uses Urza's Mine, Urza's tower, and Urza's power plant to cast huge spells early. Both use artifacts to search and ramp, attack that. Watch out for board wipes from the UW version. -deglamer, krosan grip, thrun, the last troll.

Storm (UR Combo) Cast a lot of draw spells in one turn with the aid of Goblin Electromancer, Pyromancer Ascension, or Past in Flames. Attack the graveyard or remove the enchantment, pyromancer ascention. -Grafdigger's cage, relic of progenitus, deglamer, krosan grip.

Splinter Twin combo (UR) place a splinter twin on a deceiver exarch or pestermite. Tap it to make a copy and untap the original, repeat for infinite dudes. They play like a control deck until tehy kill you, apply early pressure and keep up removal at all times. Add enchantment and creature hate - Deglamer, Dismember, Krosan Grip, Thrun(they can't counter it).

Scapeshift - RUG - removes and coutners threats until it can cast scapeshift, sacrificing 7 lands and searching for valakut the molten peak and mountains. They all enter the battlefeild and deal 18 or more damage to you. Attack them as quickly as possible, when they cast scapeshift try to remove their lands with Beast Within because they can't win if they only search for 6 lands with scapeshift. - Thrun, thragtusk.