New Format, New Lost Box
A guide to adapting this everlasting archetype to the post-rotation format
Hello! I’m Stéphane Ivanoff and I’m honored to join Schemanske’s Corner. For those who don't know me, I'm a two-time International Champion and Regional Champion from France. I've been a regular reader of Alex's writing ever since this Substack opened, so I'm happy that I now get to contribute to it.
For my first article here, I've chosen to write about Lost Box, which I consider to be a very strong choice in the post-rotation metagame and is currently one of my frontrunners for EUIC (although, as a disclaimer, I still have a lot more testing to do!). There's always some mystery at the beginning of every format: will our metagame look like Japan's, where the cards we just get have been legal for months? Will some group of elite players, or a lone rogue deckbuilder, find a secret archetype that will break the format? How will each deck be built, which tech cards will be deemed valuable? These questions are even more relevant when rotation hits, as the changes compared to the previous format are much more significant.