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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On this week's episode, John sat down with Omar and Edgardo Cortes to talk about how they got into the game and what it's like competing in the Pokemon TCG from the perspective of a seniors player and their parent including: balancing Pokemon with school/work/extracurriculars, impacts from a social or financial perspective, and the benefits of Pokemon as a competitive outlet for younger players. We definitely want to thank them for their time and the insight into this lesser discussed topic!

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Aaron and John are joined by Johnny Rabus to go over decks from the 2012 and 2013 seasons in an extended Time Capsule episode.

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This week, Aaron and John go over some select cards from the upcoming Black Bolt and White Flare expansions releasing 7/18. The highlighted cards are expected to be on the more impactful side of the spectrum but the notable quality of this release is that for the first time ever, we will be receiving Black Bolt and White Flare as two fully separate products!

We should be back to our regularly scheduled programming starting next week including our bonus segments. We hope you continue to enjoy the show.

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The guys are back at it with the big news announcement from TPCi this week regarding the 2026 Championship Series. Along with dates for ICs, Regionals, and Special Championships, Pokemon has also made some changes to the tournament format and structure. Outside of this discussion, John also attempts to thwart Aaron in this week's Blaine's Quiz Show with questions related to the roots of certain Pokemon in Japanese lore and myth.

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Aaron and John are joined by Hunter Butler to go over the results and the future potential of the Master's Cup series as well as all of their respective NAIC experiences. Hunter and Aaron deep dive on their NAIC list and some specific card choices before the guys take a broad strokes look at NAIC as a whole.

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Aaron and John tier list the decks of the Destined Rivals format heading into NAIC this weekend. Aaron also reviews some details about the Master's Cup event happening this week ahead of the main NAIC tournament and we find out if Aaron can stop John from overtaking him on this week's edition of Blaine's Quiz Show.

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Aaron and John review results from the final major event in the Journey Together format and some very preliminary results from the Destined Rivals format. Aaron reviews another 2010 deck and John takes his shot at holding Aaron at a point total that he can surpass on his next attempt to gain points in Blaine's Quiz Show. Finally, the guys close the show out with a review of some new decks that have hit the scene in TCG Pocket.

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The guys review Erik Nance's 2010 Healix deck in this week's time capsule. Then Aaron takes a shot at stopping John's comeback in Blaine's Quiz Show before they check out the meta breakdown and a couple of interesting events from last week's Portland Regional Championship.

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Aaron goes over Sablelock ahead of the officail 2010 retro side event announced for play at NAIC. Then the guys review the results of a tournament packed weekend from around the world. John quizzes Aaron on card values in Blaine's Quiz Show and we close the episode out with an updated tier list heading into Portland Regionals this weekend.

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