Back from a holiday break, Aaron and John sat down to review the history of decks involving Gardevoir ex since its introduction in the Scarlet & Violet base set. The card has a long history of adaptability and has taken many forms in its time in the tcg so hopefully you learn something. If you feel like there's something we missed, let us know!
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Going into the vault this week! Due to some logistical issues, we weren't able to record the intended episode this week. Instead, we're re-releasing this throwback highlighting coaching in the Pokemon TCG space!
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Aaron and John take the time to review how Charizard ex came into the modern game when it was released in Obsidian Flames and how decks involving this card have evolved and adapted over the course of its time in standard.
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Aaron and John catch up on what they missed from the fallout of LAIC and the results of the Stuttgart Regional Championship.
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Aaron and John discuss the results of the Las Vegas Regional and some of the updates that happened to the tournament as well as the official stream set up, Aaron tries to close the gap in Blaine's Quiz Show, and the guys tier list the format abased on the likelihood of a top player bringing the deck to LAIC.
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Aaron and John discuss a change in the tournament handbook outlining the implementation of open decklists in tournament play. Aaron quizzes John on some Kanto starter trivia in Blaine's Quiz Show before the guys make some predictions ahead of this weekend's Las Vegas Regional Championship.
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Aaron and John go over the results of the Regionals from this past weekend before jumping into take a look at the contents of the soon to be released Phantasmal Flames set.
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Aaron proposes a new card legality schedule for products like the Mega Gengar and Mega Diancie battle decks, Frontier Fundamentals makes its triumphant return, and the guys discuss the impact of the results of the Lille Regional Championship as we head into Halloween weekend with Brisbane and Gdansk directly ahead.
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Aaron and John jump into the past with the reintroduction of the Time Capsule segment reviewing a deck that had a similar introduction to the game as Tord's Mega Absol Box deck. Then the guys drop some predictions for which players and decks they expect to succeed at the Lille Regional Championship this weekend.
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This week we look at the results of our predictions, the impact of Tord Reklev's new introduction to the Mega Evolution metagame, and the other results from the Milwaukee Regional Championship including the success of a deck we didn't even remember to mention on last week's episode. We also take a trip to the Southern hemisphere to check out the results of the Belo Horizonte Regional that took place last weekend.
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Aaron and John go through a series of questions to outline their thoughts on the opening regional weekend for the Mega Evolution format in Milwaukee.
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Aaron and John review some results and deck lists from the Yokohama Champions League and the Full Grip Games 3k event and discuss why the Mega EX cards may not be creating as large of an impact as players may have hoped.
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Aaron and John go over the results of the Pittsburgh Regional Championship including one of the strangest resolutions to an event final ever. We're closing the books on the final event in the full Scarlet and Violet block and looking forward to the release of Mega Evolution this week. Let us know what cards you're looking forward to in the comments below!
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Aaron and John discuss the results of the Frankfurt and Monterrey Regional Championships including how the same deck list managed to win events on nearly opposite sides of the world.
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Aaron and John discuss some of the newly revealed Mega Pokemon as well as do a brief run through of the Mega Evolution set. John gives players a friendly reminder to stay up to date with the players handbook to understand the current state of rulings and acceptable tournament practices, and tries to stump Aaron on this week's edition of Blaine's Quiz Show.
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To open the second season of the show, Aaron and John discuss the introduction of Pokemon XP which promises to be a further evolution of the Worlds spectator experience. Blaine's Quiz Show returns for the new season with point totals reset, and John provides an overview on the newly announced changes to the Professor Program heading into the 2026 season.
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Aaron and John go over their individual Worlds experiences before reviewing the final results and metagame for the main TCG event. This episode marks the end of season 1 of the Battle Frontier. We can't thank you, the listener, enough for your support during our first season and we hope to continue to produce the show for a second season and beyond.
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Aaron and John go over their top tier desired items from the Pokemon Center at the World Championship in Anaheim before Aaron attempts to extend his lead in this week's edition of Blaine's Quiz Show. The guys then close things out with their takes on some top tier, bottom tier, and sleeper pick decks going into thus weekend.
Note: audio only due to limited processing availability before heading to worlds. Will upload the video upon returning home!
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This week, John is joined by guest Mateus Quibao to provide some insight into how Pokemon functions in Brazil, and the LATAM region as a whole. Mateus is a long-time judge and player who has transitioned to being a store owner hoping to shed some light on the differences between NA and LATAM Pokemon from a macro perspective.
Aaron is back this week to join John in providing some early insights from their first experiences with the Black Bolt & White Flare format. Then after a brief detour through Blaine's Quiz Show, the guys do a near term retrospective tier list of the power level of each Scarlet and Violet set upon their release.
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