Gilesclone said: We don't really know when Kaladesh is going to rotate out of Standard, but it will almost certainly happen before the end of the year. This got me to thinking about what we will lose at that point. I'm not going to go into the mythics. There are some extremely powerful cards there and we will mourn them/bid them good riddance. But what about the rest of the set? Of the uncommons, White (especially Nahiri) is going to really miss Visionary Augmenter. What a rock star in aggressive decks. But the one that will be the most painful is Unlicensed Disintegration. For Red that card is irreplaceable. There are no other kill spells in red that don't depend on damage. There's quite a few rares we'll miss too. For white I think Authority of the Consuls and Solemn Recruit are the biggest losses. Blue loses some greats: Whirl of Invention and Insidious Will. Nothing quite like those cards in the other sets. Ob Nix isn't the same without Lost Legacy and Underhanded Design was great for support heavy Black decks. I don't know about any of the rest of you, but losing Release the Gremlins will really hurt versus the support heavy meta we're in. For Green the one I'll miss is Cultivator of Blades. I remember when I got that as a Silver player it instantly gave my green decks a chance. For colorless, Scraphead Scrounger has no replacement and Saheeli is losing all her GOOD vehicles. There's a ton of other useful cards that go away. What cards are you going to miss the most?
Thuran said: But it could be worse; it could be Ob nixilis losing lost legacy