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This year Blizzard began rotating problematic cards from the Classic set out of the Standard format, creating the tantalising prospect that everyone’s most hated cards will eventually be banished to Wild eventually. So, to help the designers at Team 5 make the right call next time, I selflessly decided to put together a hit list of cards that I feel should be put out to pasture next time around.

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Standard still has plenty of powerful cards, as our list of the 20 best legendaries to craft shows.

I tried as best I could to stick to the loose ground rules that Blizzard operate by. The first and most important of which is that the cards must be from the Basic or Classic sets only. Cards from expansions and adventures, frustrating as they might be, will take care of themselves when their natural rotation comes around, but the Classic set is theoretically here forever, locking classes into certain strategies and limiting the variation that is possible when queuing into a particular class.

So as much as I would love to instantly nuke the Warrior Quest from orbit so I never have to look at a Die Insect coin flip again, I must make like Aldor and follow the rules. Secondly, the Hall of Fame was primarily reserved for powerful neutrals that were clearly “best in slot” for their Mana cost, and thus reduced the diversity of the game immensely. It’s worth noting, however, that those cards don’t really exist in the current Un’Goro meta, and so I've had to stray from the beaten path and pick on some core class cards buy POE orbs .