For me, it's Supreme Verdict at #1 and Sphinx's Revelation at #2, with Pack Rat at #3. Those three cards have cause me no end of irritation for the last several months.
I'll miss shocklands because I know KTK lands won't be as good. Also my favorite Planeswalker of all time, Domri Rade, and the mono enabler Mutavault. On the fence about the OP Burning-Tree Emissary.
Happy Mutavault, Sphinx's Revelation, Pack Rat, Blood Baron are going.
I'm sad Trading Post, Renegade Krasis and Master Biomancer are going, with the last being decent cards that never had a chance to shine.
Happy to see go probably, Lifebane Zombie and Tidebinder Mage. These cards felt too much like meddling in the natural interaction of how "fair" decks play to the board. You take a format with next to no ETB value where you leverage bodies for Virtual CA, and then basically counter them with real 2 for 1 ETB CA. When add the fact that most cards these nullified over their CA (like in the 4-5 mana range) while decent couldn't run away with the game or provide that much straight value without huge investment these cards might as well been 2-3 mana Nekrataal's. I believe these were essential to make Devotion work in this past Standard along with the lack of the 2nd set of 1 drop accelerators and the typical 1-2 punch or value overload in midrange decks. Without them devotion would be too slow to matter. Pack Rat could easily be raced by bigger creatures, green decks could easily be ahead of mono-blue on mana etc. Devotions biggest threat is sweepers on one side and decks that just play a critical density of better cards on the other side. These two cards allowed devotion to force a wedge into good stuff decks allowing them to exist where in most Standard Formats they wouldn't (especially Standards with 4 mana sweepers). Pack Rat normally would not be good enough to see play.
Sad to see go Domri Rade, Supreme Verdict, but it's probably time for both of them. Domri has almost single handedly been keeping multi color Aggressive Green Midrange (Big Aggro) decks alive the past 2 years, but it almost makes deck design in that area stagnate. Supreme Verdict has been so essential in changing the control vs aggro timing in that it prevents blue decks from having an advantage as the aggressor. At the core it's the staple 4 mana sweeper that control usually has every standard which serves a very essential role to keeping balance in the format. It is typically essential to put a cap critical massing creature decks that don't diversify or play value. On one side it's probably why we ended up with Tidebinder Mage/Skylasher/Mistcutter dynamic (so mono blue could have good matchups and not just auto lose where it couldn't lean so heavily on permission/bounce across the board). It allows them to print better blue creatures early game without worrying about innocuous cards being too powerful due to the blue shell built around it. They didn't push that too far and more used it to cap Delver at the end of it's life. I think it's really interesting design area for blue when it can't counter the 4 mana sweeper. I easily could spend a couple more years exploring that. However artificially boosting it's matchup on the board in such a lopsided way is not fun. The tension between playing protection Blue and Tidebinder Mage is way too specific, and feels way too much like the hate cards of old which was never fun.
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We are gathered here today to honor Doorkeeper. Your 4 toughness for 2 mana and your activated ability to help speed my u/b defender mill along will be greatly missed. You left us too soon, my darling homunculus. Ill see you on the other side and/or in modern.
Happy: Pack Rat there is a special circle of h*** for this card. Mutavault is an iffy card, I'm kind of happy to see it go, but not overjoyed. Supreme Verdict should have been a 5 drop or not uncounterable. Abrupt Decay is an awesome card, but uncounterable things annoy me. Nightveil Specter SO annoying with scry.
Sad: Sphinx's Revelation was awesome, everyone complains about it, but fail to remember that devotion was the thing that made standard stale for months. Shocklands: really balanced and cool lands. Jace, Architect of Thought although I used to call him Suicide Jace, Ivan Floch showed we the way, use him as a win con on turns 80-90, not a turn 4 mini fact or fiction. Planar Cleansing was awesome, Cleansing control remains my favorite deck of this standard.
Happy: The typical villians - Supreme Verdict, Sphinx's Revelation, Pack Rat, Mutavault
Also, as a big fan of Ephara, God of the Polis and mono white, Lifebane Zombie can go rot in the dollar-bin for eternity.
edit - Almost forgot about Skullcrack - After loosing to burn like 4 weeks in a row, I made a deck which was pretty much an F.U. burn [actually ended being my favorite junk deck, so maybe I actually owe it something]
Dear Archangel of Thune, you are my favorite card of all time. Please find a place in Modern so I can one day relive the days of endings games at 40+ life and 20 +1 counters.
Good riddance. Those cards were just rotten and degenerate. And boring!
The only cards I'll miss are all the wacky underplayed (absolutely terrible) brew cards like Epic Experiment and Progenitor Mimic and Trading Post and random crap like that. But we're getting some new useless garbage funstuff to brew around in Khans anyway. I can't wait to make my Villainous Wealth deck that bricks 99% of the time.
Maybe I don't feel the ire towards Mono Black's arsenal because I remember how mediocre it was in INN-RTR Standard: Nightveil Specter, Desecration Demon, and Pack Rat were all non-starters when they first came out. Even with Liliana of the Veil in Standard, no less, there just wasn't a viable Mono Black deck, and goodness did the deck brewers try.
For me, the only thing I'll be happy to see leave Standard is Mutavault. I like Mutavault; I play with it, but it was far more omnipresent than any single card had a right to be: every single deck uses it in RTR-THS Standard.
I'm sad to see corpsejack menace go. He was fun to play. Might have to bring him back out for one last run this friday. soooo much fun with all the evolve and monstrous.
Thinking today, I'm sorry to see Xathrid Necromancer go. He had an amazing synergy with INN-RTR Standard, but a significant reduction in the number of quality humans post-rotation meant he was much more limited. I feel that him and Khans would have great potential that we just won't see.
I'll miss shocklands because I know KTK lands won't be as good. Also my favorite Planeswalker of all time, Domri Rade, and the mono enabler Mutavault. On the fence about the OP Burning-Tree Emissary.
How about yourself?
I am sad to see go: Cyclonic Rift, Mizzium Mortars and Quicken!
I'm sad Trading Post, Renegade Krasis and Master Biomancer are going, with the last being decent cards that never had a chance to shine.
This pretty much
I'll miss the guild charns, especially boros charm
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Sad to see go Domri Rade, Supreme Verdict, but it's probably time for both of them. Domri has almost single handedly been keeping multi color Aggressive Green Midrange (Big Aggro) decks alive the past 2 years, but it almost makes deck design in that area stagnate. Supreme Verdict has been so essential in changing the control vs aggro timing in that it prevents blue decks from having an advantage as the aggressor. At the core it's the staple 4 mana sweeper that control usually has every standard which serves a very essential role to keeping balance in the format. It is typically essential to put a cap critical massing creature decks that don't diversify or play value. On one side it's probably why we ended up with Tidebinder Mage/Skylasher/Mistcutter dynamic (so mono blue could have good matchups and not just auto lose where it couldn't lean so heavily on permission/bounce across the board). It allows them to print better blue creatures early game without worrying about innocuous cards being too powerful due to the blue shell built around it. They didn't push that too far and more used it to cap Delver at the end of it's life. I think it's really interesting design area for blue when it can't counter the 4 mana sweeper. I easily could spend a couple more years exploring that. However artificially boosting it's matchup on the board in such a lopsided way is not fun. The tension between playing protection Blue and Tidebinder Mage is way too specific, and feels way too much like the hate cards of old which was never fun.
GWU Knightfall Modern
UW Tempo Legacy
UGR Burning Wish Cobra Vintage
Sad to see leave: Mutavault, the Charms (literally all of them at one point or another), and Boros Reckoner.
1. Pack Rat
2. Supreme Verdict
3. Sphinx's Revelation
4. Lifebane Zombie
5. Burning-Tree Emissary
6. Witchstalker
Sad to see these go:
1. Shock Lands
2. Abrupt Decay
3. Boros Charm
4. Golgari Charm
5. Underworld Connections
6. Domri Rade
We are gathered here today to honor Doorkeeper. Your 4 toughness for 2 mana and your activated ability to help speed my u/b defender mill along will be greatly missed. You left us too soon, my darling homunculus. Ill see you on the other side and/or in modern.
Sad: Sphinx's Revelation was awesome, everyone complains about it, but fail to remember that devotion was the thing that made standard stale for months. Shocklands: really balanced and cool lands. Jace, Architect of Thought although I used to call him Suicide Jace, Ivan Floch showed we the way, use him as a win con on turns 80-90, not a turn 4 mini fact or fiction. Planar Cleansing was awesome, Cleansing control remains my favorite deck of this standard.
I'm glad to see boros reckoner leave though. That card has killed me from some of the stupidest reasons ever.
"That's 10"
"I just lost to Maze's End?, But I've never lost to Maze's End before"
I liked being their first time.
Peak rating 1832
Brain Freeze is the coolest card ever printed.
Counting down the days until Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx is gone.
I'm already tired of Sagu Mauler
If you notice the pattern there, you'll not be surprised when I say that I'm gonna miss the hell out of Lifebane Zombie.
I loved you so much
Also, as a big fan of Ephara, God of the Polis and mono white, Lifebane Zombie can go rot in the dollar-bin for eternity.
edit - Almost forgot about Skullcrack - After loosing to burn like 4 weeks in a row, I made a deck which was pretty much an F.U. burn [actually ended being my favorite junk deck, so maybe I actually owe it something]
Sad: Precinct Captain, Boros Reckoner - both fun, fair cards that could've made Mono White a thing if it wasn't for a certain zombie.
Even Sadder: Archangel of Thune Obzedat, Ghost Council Abrupt Decay- Long live my previously mentioned Junk deck with Courser, Scooze, Obzedat, and Thune... especially Thune
Dear Archangel of Thune, you are my favorite card of all time. Please find a place in Modern so I can one day relive the days of endings games at 40+ life and 20 +1 counters.
Good riddance. Those cards were just rotten and degenerate. And boring!
The only cards I'll miss are all the wacky underplayed (absolutely terrible) brew cards like Epic Experiment and Progenitor Mimic and Trading Post and random crap like that. But we're getting some new useless garbage funstuff to brew around in Khans anyway. I can't wait to make my Villainous Wealth deck that bricks 99% of the time.
Maybe I don't feel the ire towards Mono Black's arsenal because I remember how mediocre it was in INN-RTR Standard: Nightveil Specter, Desecration Demon, and Pack Rat were all non-starters when they first came out. Even with Liliana of the Veil in Standard, no less, there just wasn't a viable Mono Black deck, and goodness did the deck brewers try.
For me, the only thing I'll be happy to see leave Standard is Mutavault. I like Mutavault; I play with it, but it was far more omnipresent than any single card had a right to be: every single deck uses it in RTR-THS Standard.
I'll be sorry to see Supreme Verdict and Sphinx's Revelation go, they were the cornerstones of Control the past two seasons.
UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU's prison: blue is the new orange is the new black.
Mizzix Of The Izmagnus : wheels on fire... rolling down the road...
BSidisi, Undead VizierB: Bis zum Erbrechen
GTitiania, Protector Of ArgothG: Protecting Argoth, by blowing it up!
GYisan, The Wanderer BardG: Gradus Ad Elfball.
Duel EDH: Yisan & Titania.
In Progress: Grand Arbiter Augustin IV duel; Grenzo, Dungeon Warden Doomsday.
1. Burning-Tree Emissary
2. Supreme Verdict
3. Sphinx's Revelation
4. Aetherling
Sad to see these go:
1. Shock Lands
2. Abrupt Decay
3. All the charms
5. Underworld Connections
6. Pack Rat
7. Mizzium Mortars
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Thinking today, I'm sorry to see Xathrid Necromancer go. He had an amazing synergy with INN-RTR Standard, but a significant reduction in the number of quality humans post-rotation meant he was much more limited. I feel that him and Khans would have great potential that we just won't see.
UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU's prison: blue is the new orange is the new black.
Mizzix Of The Izmagnus : wheels on fire... rolling down the road...
BSidisi, Undead VizierB: Bis zum Erbrechen
GTitiania, Protector Of ArgothG: Protecting Argoth, by blowing it up!
GYisan, The Wanderer BardG: Gradus Ad Elfball.
Duel EDH: Yisan & Titania.
In Progress: Grand Arbiter Augustin IV duel; Grenzo, Dungeon Warden Doomsday.
aetherling
Boros Reckoner
Selesnya Charm
Cards I'm sad to see leave:
Desecration Demon
Blood Baron of Vizkopa
Abrupt Decay
Glad to see Mutavault, Pack Rat, Blood Baron of Vizkopa, Obdeezy, and Nightveil Spectre head out.