The Shift Gear Podcast

This week the boys go through the best decks in standard right now and provide a bit of a different take to the current tierlist of the format. Is there an S-tier deck? Let us know if Drago fits the bill below!

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Aneil is still on the Big Island so Ciaran is joined by one of Canada's young stars, Jack Moore. Jack is most famous for his Top 8 at Baltimore Regionals 2022 with Morepeko Control, but has been a consistent player in the Post Covid era. Most recently he made day 2 at the World Championships with Regidrago VSTAR. Jack goes into detail about his growth as a player, how he practices for events, how he built his Regidrago deck, and how he would play it going forward!

Ciaran and Aneil breakdown the 2024 Pokémon World Championships, filmed live from Hilo, Hawaii! 🏝️ This week, we dive deep into:

Our Tournament Runs: Hear the inside scoop as we recount our personal experiences and key highlights from our matches.

Pokémon Center Fiasco: The Pokémon Center was a free for all this year. What could have been done to improve it and will they ever make it better?

Metagame Analysis: We analyze the shifting metagame and discuss how it influenced the championship outcomes plus look ahead to Baltimore.

Shrouded Fable is finally here and we have had a plethora of online tournaments to analyze. We also go through the results from the Worlds testing tournament held in Japan. We do our best to give our thoughts on every single deck that we think will be relevant at Worlds!

We've been to a combined 10 Pokèmon TCG World Championships, and we have learned A LOT. We take you through those experiences as we prepare for Honolulu 2024, we share some of the decks we played and our rationales, as well as share the most important lessons we've learned over the years. These tips can be taken to Worlds 2024, or any other big tournament throughout the circuit.

Thanks for being here for a bit of a different episode!

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Ciaran's apartment no longer looks like Atlantis so he can help review our impact set after Worlds 2024! Reviewing cards like Terapagos ex, Hydrapple ex, Cinderace ex, and more - which of the cards we reviewed today do you think will have the biggest impact on the meta? Were there any cards we over or under valued?

This week Ciaran takes some well earned PTO and instead Aneil is joined by a former World Champion - Rowan Stavenow! Rowan takes us through his Worlds winning run in 2015, his mentality that allowed him to win the event, and some deck tips going into the biggest tournament of the year.

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This week we brought back the OG, Curtis Lyon to help us break down the top 10 WORST designed cards of all time. Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below and if we missed any cards you thought were particularly toxic!

In this video, we go through the top meta decks and share our thoughts on which ones are the best decks to bring to locals as they start up again for the 24/25 season! At the end, we also field all your twitter questions.

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We are bringing you the first ever emergency Shiftgear Episode. Pokemon dropped the bombshell the community has been waiting for, the 2024-25 season structure. There are tons of big changes, new invite system, new BFLs, and changes to Championship Points. We break it all down and give our thoughts!