What cards are you going to miss most?
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Posted on Sept. 22, 2016, 8:48 a.m. by clayperce
I'm super-excited about Kaladesh, but am really going to miss Dragons of Tarkir and Origins.
What cards are y'all going to miss most after rotation?
I'd also love to hear your stories explaining why!
Languish probably, it was excellent at getting rid of undesirables. now i need to try and find more chunk removal
September 22, 2016 9 a.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #4
Jace's Sanctum, because I'm an awful person who plays Blue Prison.
September 22, 2016 10:06 a.m.
IsThisWolfe says... #5
Clash of Wills, it was amazing in my spirit deck and kaladesh doesn't have anything on par to it.
September 22, 2016 10:09 a.m.
Ultimate Price, Lightning Beserker, and more uncommons from DTK.
September 22, 2016 11:57 a.m.
DriftWood96 and EpicFreddi,
I was always on the other side of the table from Languish and CoCo, so frankly am not remotely going to miss them! :-P
GoldGhost012 and IsThisWolfe,
Yeah, I'm gonna miss those too, especially Clash. And that makes me realize how much I'm going to miss Baby Jace
Flip ...
Atony1400,
On Ultimate Price, I think I'm only going to miss the frustrated looks on my opponent's face the first time he or she realizes it doesn't hit Hangarback! :-)
But yeah, I'm definitely going to miss Lightning Berserker. Immune to Sorcery-speed removal when Dashed in and completely bonkers late game. Wow, that card was fun ...
September 22, 2016 12:16 p.m. Edited.
I loved playing fringe cards during this last standard so I'll miss Corpseweft. Coolest token ever.
Dragonlord Silumgar, Sidisi, Undead Vizier, and Liliana, Heretical Healer Flip are a few others that I'll miss.
September 22, 2016 1:21 p.m.
Disciple of the Ring, I always felt I was just short of getting her to work...
September 22, 2016 2:56 p.m.
Dragonlord dromoka and explosive vegetation. Good bye for now Selesnya Ramp. It's green colorless now
September 22, 2016 3:17 p.m.
Definitely going to miss the Command Cycle from DTK. Mostly Ojutai's Command and my favorite: Kolaghan's Command. I would say I'll miss Dromoka's Command since I played a lot of Bant CoCo this year, but the card has been insane in Standard since it was printed and was always heavily played so I'm not so upset that it will be gone :p
September 22, 2016 4:42 p.m.
Also can't forget about Hangarback Walker and Pia and Kiran Nalaar! Loved those cards!
September 22, 2016 4:43 p.m.
Ladies and Gentlemen let us take a moment to mourn the passing of our friend, Rogue's Passage.
How will we squeeze through huge amounts of final damage now?
September 22, 2016 8:05 p.m.
UpperDeckerTaco says... #16
I'm going to miss Dragonlord Ojutai. I don't think he saw enough play in SOI/EMN standard
September 23, 2016 7:17 a.m.
JaceArveduin says... #18
I'm going to miss my dearest frineds Pyromancer's Goggles and Assault Formation.
Oh, and Impact Tremors, RIP my devils deck.
September 26, 2016 7:02 p.m.
Having played some Kaladesh now ...
Argeaux,
I think I'm with you now: Rogue's Passage would be SO good in so many of the new decks. And Key to the City is just not even close :-(
IzzetGod,
So is it just me, or is it bizarre that we had WAY more Thopters running around in Origins than on actual Kaladesh?
JaceArveduin,
Yeah, Assault Formation was awesome. The 100% pure jank of having it, Goldnight Castigator, Shape the Sands, and Tree of Perdition all in Standard at the same time was just a joy!
October 7, 2016 2:13 a.m. Edited.
JaceArveduin says... #20
Oddly enough, I ended up taking the Castigator's out of my builds, since it's pretty dead in creature matchups and is a 4drop against control decks.
Oh, and assform was actually really good in token decks, since most tokens are x/x anyway you ended up with 2G: Every creature you control gains +1/+1, which isn't huge if you're playing on curve and such, but when you have 10 1/1 tokens the extra damage adds up.
October 7, 2016 5:09 p.m.
Narset! My favourite card in that standard period by a long margin! Made so many bad cards into actually pretty good or fun cards just by being able to cast them twice over. Made some crazy board states, and just allowed a lot of creative deckbuilding.
On the last day of standard I was playing superfriends.dec, rebounded Deploy the Gatewatch and made an army of 40 vampires off Sorin a few turns later, who all got a counter from Nissa (my opponent was on a life gain strategy, that didn't go so well!). I look forward to her appearing in the story in future.
I also miss the flavourful Kaladesh cards from Origins that didn't see a reprint. And the baby planeswalkers. But not Jace. (sorry jace)
clayperce says... #2
As for me: Hangarback Walker for sure.
I've been a Thopter fan ever since the original Ornithopter, and despite being a magnet for Exile effects, Hangarback was still one of the very best two-drops in Standard.
September 22, 2016 8:54 a.m. Edited.