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Hey everyone! It’s Charlie and I’m happy to be back with another article. Staple cards like Radiant Greninja have been dominating the format for almost three years, and it’s finally time we say goodbye to them. Our new format only includes cards from the Scarlet & Violet series, giving us one contiguous design block of cards to work with. This should hopefully lead to a healthy and interesting meta for the foreseeable future!
However, we notably dropped from 16 legal sets to eleven with the rotation of Brilliant Stars, Astral Radiance, Pokemon GO, Lost Origin, Silver Tempest, and Crown Zenith. This drops the legal card pool from about 2,671 cards to about 1,971. While not an exact metric, fewer cards to work with almost always means that the strategies become less intricate. Synergy of cards printed years apart (whether or not they were intended) oftentimes results in some of the best decks...
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