diff --git a/docs/babel.md b/docs/babel.md
index 21262b531..d69756c81 100644
--- a/docs/babel.md
+++ b/docs/babel.md
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ Uglifyjs will use the injected `/*#__PURE__*/` flag comments to mark your `css`
 
 Generated CSS that is eligible for extraction can be moved to an external css file.
 
+> Note:
+>
+> extractStatic is deprecated and will be removed in emotion@10. We recommend disabling extractStatic or using other libraries like [linaria](https://github.com/callstack-io/linaria) or [css-literal-loader](https://github.com/4Catalyzer/css-literal-loader)
+
 ### Source Maps
 
 When enabled, navigate directly to the style declaration in your javascript file.
diff --git a/docs/extract-static.md b/docs/extract-static.md
index e7daaee90..6a5c12e77 100644
--- a/docs/extract-static.md
+++ b/docs/extract-static.md
@@ -4,7 +4,15 @@ title: "Extract Static"
 
 ###### [requires babel plugin](/docs/babel.md)
 
-The `extractStatic` option to `babel-plugin-emotion` allows you to extract styles with no interpolations into external css files. **`extractStatic` is not recommended** because it **breaks [composition](/docs/composition.md)** and other powerful patterns from libraries like [facepaint](https://github.com/emotion-js/facepaint). It is primarily available for historical reasons. It does not work with object styles.
+## DEPRECATED
+
+extractStatic is deprecated and will be removed in emotion@10. We recommend disabling extractStatic or using other libraries like [linaria](https://github.com/callstack-io/linaria) or [css-literal-loader](https://github.com/4Catalyzer/css-literal-loader).
+
+### Why is extractStatic being deprecated?
+
+Static extraction was made for earlier versions of emotion which had a very different architecture to the architecture emotion has today. As emotion has gotten more performant and features such as [composition](/docs/composition.md) have been added, static extraction has become less important. Because most of the community is leveraging the composition and `extractStatic` is rarely used, the time spent maintaining `extractStatic` is much higher than the benefits we get from it. Libraries such as [linaria](https://github.com/callstack-io/linaria) and [css-literal-loader](https://github.com/4Catalyzer/css-literal-loader) do static extraction well and the people working on them are focused on this specific problem. As a team, we believe that projects like [prepack](https://github.com/facebook/prepack), when they are ready, will provide a better and more powerful way to pre-compile styles.
+
+The `extractStatic` option to `babel-plugin-emotion` allows you to extract styles with no interpolations into external css files. **`extractStatic` is not recommended** because it **breaks [composition](/docs/composition.md)** and other powerful patterns from libraries like [facepaint](https://github.com/emotion-js/facepaint).
 
 **If you want to use dynamic values you must use css variables.**
 
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-emotion/README.md b/packages/babel-plugin-emotion/README.md
index cf87a965e..c3885f0c2 100644
--- a/packages/babel-plugin-emotion/README.md
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-emotion/README.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ above of `emotion`.
       <td>Uglifyjs will use the injected <code>/*#__PURE__*/</code> flag comments to mark your <code>css</code> and <code>styled</code> blocks as candidates for dead code elimination.</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
-      <td>Static Extraction</td>
+      <td>Static Extraction (deprecated)</td>
       <td align="center"></td>
       <td align="center">✅</td>
       <td>Generated CSS that is eligible for extraction can be moved to an external css file.</td>
@@ -351,6 +351,10 @@ const Profile = () => {
 
 `boolean`, defaults to `false`.
 
+> Note:
+>
+> extractStatic is deprecated and will be removed in emotion@10. We recommend disabling extractStatic or using other libraries like [linaria](https://github.com/callstack-io/linaria) or [css-literal-loader](https://github.com/4Catalyzer/css-literal-loader)
+
 This option enables the following:
 
 * Extract static styles into CSS files.
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-emotion/src/index.js b/packages/babel-plugin-emotion/src/index.js
index 02ab76ae8..ad7dd5908 100644
--- a/packages/babel-plugin-emotion/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-emotion/src/index.js
@@ -410,6 +410,8 @@ function getInstancePathToCompare(instancePath: string, rootPath: string) {
   return absolutePath
 }
 
+let warnedAboutExtractStatic = false
+
 export default function(babel: Babel) {
   const { types: t } = babel
 
@@ -517,6 +519,15 @@ export default function(babel: Babel) {
             }
           })
           state.cssPropIdentifiers = []
+          if (state.opts.extractStatic && !warnedAboutExtractStatic) {
+            console.warn(
+              'extractStatic is deprecated and will be removed in emotion@10. We recommend disabling extractStatic or using other libraries like linaria or css-literal-loader'
+            )
+            // lots of cli tools write to the same line so
+            // this moves to the next line so the warning doesn't get removed
+            console.log('')
+            warnedAboutExtractStatic = true
+          }
           state.extractStatic =
             // path.hub.file.opts.filename !== 'unknown' ||
             state.opts.extractStatic
diff --git a/packages/create-emotion-styled/src/index.js b/packages/create-emotion-styled/src/index.js
index acab14b0e..264edc832 100644
--- a/packages/create-emotion-styled/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/create-emotion-styled/src/index.js
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import {
   setTheme
 } from './utils'
 
+let warnedAboutExtractStatic = false
+
 function createEmotionStyled(emotion: Emotion, view: ReactType) {
   let createStyled: CreateStyled = (tag, options) => {
     if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
@@ -71,6 +73,14 @@ function createEmotionStyled(emotion: Emotion, view: ReactType) {
             styles.push(args[i], args[0][i])
           }
         }
+      } else if (
+        process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' &&
+        !warnedAboutExtractStatic
+      ) {
+        console.warn(
+          'extractStatic is deprecated and will be removed in emotion@10. We recommend disabling extractStatic or using other libraries like linaria or css-literal-loader'
+        )
+        warnedAboutExtractStatic = true
       }
 
       class Styled extends view.Component<*, { theme: Object }> {