Hello, everyone. It’s Isaiah Williams writing this article from Mexico City. I have spent the last week here to attend both the Mexico City SPE and Regionals. Within this week, I have put myself under a strict Meta game testing regime. It was brutal to endure countless hours of dead draws and watching Caleb Gedemer hit Guzma in every N to 2, but alas, I persevered. Now I am here to enlighten you on what “the play” is for Mexico City Regionals. It is whichever deck you are good at.

Rock/Paper/Scissors

This may be something that you have heard before, but I think that this is especially prevalent in the current meta. Right now, our meta is dominated by three archetypes—Buzzwole-GX/Lycanroc-GX, Malamar, and Zoroark-GX. This is quite a rock/paper/scissors format. We see this given the recent Regionals results. We started with a Zoroark Dominant Meta at the beginning of the year. Then we saw an insane spree of Buzzwole victories from Charlotte Regionals to Madison Regionals. We then, unexpectedly, saw a recent ZoroRoc win at Sheffield regionals. What caused such an upset in this Buzzwole dominant meta?

The obvious answer to me is that the new Malamar archetype— Malamar/Mewtwo(Hoopa)—was introduced into the meta. With little time to truly test this matchup, Buzzwole players in fear of their psychic weaknesses opted to play other variants. This gave Zoroark a swift window of opportunity to rise to the top, leaving us with this triangle of decks at the top.

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