Episodes

  • #27 - Cyrus Davis
    Jul 21 2024

    Today’s guest is Cyrus Davis. Cyrus is an incredibly talented player, who is perhaps best known for winning NAIC 2023 with Urshifu Inteleon. They also have several other incredible achievements, including a Regional top 16 and top 4, as well as a 9th place finish at the 2023 World Championships. Cyrus is also known for playing several unorthodox deck archetypes to great success, and has also written several high quality guides and articles for the Shuffle Squad, Metafy, and Schemanske’s Corner. Cyrus' Twitter - https://twitter.com/CyrusDavisTCG ----------------- Follow the Podcast!

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • #26 - Rahul Reddy
    Jul 14 2024

    Today’s guest is Rahul Reddy. Rahul is a player and content creator who has been playing the Pokemon TCG for over 10 years. Rahul has several incredible achievements as a player, including multiple International top cuts, almost a dozen Regional top cuts, and many strong finishes at Worlds, including a top 16 finish in 2018 and top 32 in 2019. Rahul has had success with multiple deck archetypes, perhaps most famously with Bee Revenge Vespiquen in both the Standard and Expanded formats, as well as innovating the Regis deck during Lugia Vstar’s dominance. Rahul's Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/thefleeee ----------------- Follow the Podcast!

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • #25 - Kyle Sabelhaus
    Jul 7 2024

    Today’s guest is Kyle Sabelhaus. Kyle is a veteran player who has seen success in the Pokemon TCG for two decades. Today he is best known as one of the incredibly talented members of the Pokemon TCG commentary team. Over the years Kyle has had great success across all levels of the Pokemon TCG, winning regionals, placing high at Nationals, and finishing as high as Top 16 at the World Championship. In between stints on the commentary desk, Kyle has continued to attend events to this day, making it to day 2 at several regionals in the past few years. Kyle's Twitter - ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/KSabelhaus ----------------- Follow the Podcast!

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • #24 - Lucas Xing
    Jun 30 2024
    Today’s guest is Lucas Xing. Lucas most recently won the Los Angeles Regional Championship, the final NA regional of the season. But Lucas has also been tearing up the Pokemon scene across the world over the past three seasons, having some of the most consistent regional placements we have ever seen. With a regional win, 2 regional top 4s, 3 top 16s, and 6 top 32s in three years, Lucas is a force to be reckoned with. While he might be best known for his immense success with Chien-Pao, Lucas has seen success at the highest level with several archetypes, winning LA with Pidgeot Control. Lucas' Twitter - ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/XingGod ----------------- Follow the Podcast!
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    50 mins
  • #23 - Toine Lay
    Jun 23 2024

    Today’s guest is Toine Lay. While Toine may be best known in the Pokemon TCG community as the first Twitter that players go to check for translations of cards coming out in Japan, they are also a very talented player with incredible achievements. Toine splits their time between France and Japan, and placed top 4 in two Champions Leagues, as well as top 16 in the 2021 Japan National Championship. They have also achieved top 32 and 64 finishes at major events in Europe over the past year.


    Toine's Twitter - ⁠https://twitter.com/ToineLay ----------------- Follow the Podcast!

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • #22 - Aneil Saini
    Jun 16 2024

    Today’s guest is Aneil Saini. Aneil has played the game on and off for over a decade, returning in the past few years without missing a step. Placing top 16 at two regionals with Mew Vmax as well as top 16 at LAIC 2023 with an innovating Turbo Miraidon list, Aneil has shown that he is among the best players from the competitive Toronto area. Aneil is also one of the hosts of the Shift Gear Podcast. Aneil's Twitter - https://twitter.com/TCG_Aneil Shift Gear Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@ShiftGearPodcast ----------------- Follow the Podcast!

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    56 mins
  • #21 - Alex Schemanske
    Jun 10 2024
    Today’s guest is Alex Schemanske. While he is perhaps best known for winning EUIC 2023, Alex has a litany of achievements dating back over a decade. He is a consistent day 2 competitor, with over a dozen Regional top 8s. Alex is known for innovating in the Pokemon TCG, having success with unexpected decks and pushing the metagame to its creative limits. Alex is now also the owner of his very own Pokemon TCG store in Michigan. Alex's Twitter - twitter.com/aschemanske Key Card Collectibles - twitter.com/KeyCardCollect ----------------- Follow the Podcast!
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    58 mins
  • #20 - Kevin Clemente
    Aug 26 2023

    Today’s guest is Kevin Clemente, also known in the Pokemon community as Mellow_Magikarp. Kevin is an incredibly talented player, achieving a Worlds invite in 2019 - just his first season playing competitively - as well as 2022. He has had multiple strong finishes at major events, including 2 Regional top 16s. He is also the host of the Lake of Rage podcast, where he’s interviewed Regional, International, and World champions as well as content creators and other important individuals in the Pokemon TCG community. His Youtube channel is a valuable online resource, providing players with decklists, meta predictions, and lessons on how to improve as a player. In this episode we discuss his rapid growth as a player, how he feels about achieving a Worlds invite this season, the development of his online content, and more. ----------------- Kevins's Twitter - https://twitter.com/Mellow_Magikarp Youtube and Lake of Rage - https://www.youtube.com/@MellowMagikarp Memory Capsule Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/MemCapPodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host's Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/RZGladysz⁠⁠⁠⁠

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    1 hr and 20 mins