The FUTURE of Lost Box
What’s the best version of Lost Box for the rest of this format? Victor discusses his favorite and the reasoning behind the deck-list.
Since the release of Lost Origins, Lost Box has gone through a surprising number of iterations. It started off nice and simple with Cramorant, Sableye, and Radiant Charizard being your only attackers and back then, that was enough. Sableye was one of the best late game attackers in the game, being able to threaten multiple multi-prize turns.
Two rotations later, and well… Lost Box has gotten a bit complicated. Since then, we’ve seen Iron Hands ex, Jirachi, Klefki and Flutter Mane being added to the game and although Lost Box isn’t exactly dead as some people had thought it would be, it definitely has had to adapt in order to survive. Heck, even Charizard ex while not being a direct counter to Lost Box, poses a problem with its massive 330 HP, multiple uses of Radiant Charizard is no longer a winning strategy. You have to get a bit creative.
Because of these factors, out of all the meta-archetypes in the game right now, Lost Box is by far the least set in stone. If you sit across a Charizard or a Chien-Pao or a Gardevoir, you can be pretty confident that you have a good idea of what they can hit you with. But right now, there are at least 4 different ways to build Lost Box. In fact,
Stéphane wrote an article about Lost Box just a couple weeks ago, but it’s quite different from my take so here we are. I’m a bit biased but I think my “Future” Lost Box concoction that I piloted to 100th this past weekend to Orlando is the superior version but let’s talk about why!