Ancient Box Crushes the Current Meta

[PMJ]

Hello everyone! After the dominance of Gardevoir ex and Lost Box at NAIC, it begs the question, what decks can beat both? After all, both Lost Box and Gardevoir are extremely powerful and adaptable decks without many obvious weaknesses. They use single-Prize attackers to win Prize trades. Lost Box is more fast and aggressive, while Gardevoir can come back from nearly any position.

Leading up to NAIC, one of the main decks I was testing was actually Ancient Box. This isn’t saying a whole lot though, since our group tested out just about everything. However, Ancient Box stood out to me because it matched up exceptionally well into the expected meta. It has fantastic matchups against Lost Box, Gardevoir, and Raging Bolt ex ...

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[freedomfightre]

It also struggles against any deck with a Pidgeot ex,

Too bad Pidgey/Zard is likely coming back in a big way for Worlds.

 

[marco_spector]

I'd really love to see Ancient Box in the spotlight, but I feel like this window of opportunity after the rise of gard / lost box is the best they will feature. Like said above, zard is coming on even stronger for Worlds

 

[piyuv]

This, people probably expected dragapult ex dominance so zard was not as ubiquitous

Too bad Pidgey/Zard is likely coming back in a big way for Worlds.