We Still Have No Information About Next Season... | Uncommon Energy Episode 211

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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Uncommon Energy podcast. On this week's episode, we've got a bunch of new cards to take a look at. We also are going to talk about where is the season information? Is the 2027 Pokemon season even happening? We don't know as of now. We'll talk about guess that flavor text everyone's favorite segment of the podcast. Not talk about it, but we'll do it. Actually. Wait, whose pick is it? Oh, it's my pick. I need to pick a card. I'll do it during. Okay, good. And then we're also going to talk about the release of Pitch Black coming this weekend. Azul's going to be streaming the set on TCG Live. I'll probably be playing it a little bit and we'll talk about some of the cards that we're excited to try out. And then we, of course, will have our weekly bonus episode exclusive to our YouTube channel members, Spotify subscribers. A little bit of extra content from us each week and also a bunch of extra supports. We are very thankful for that. My name is Chipper G. I'm joined here, as always by my friend and co host, Azul. GG what's up, Azul? How we doing, buddy? How has your week been? Past two weeks? We did not have an episode last week. Yeah, past two weeks. I mean, the last last week was pretty rough. I did get a infected finger. Go. I don't even know how I thought you were going to tell us you got the poop disease that's going across the U.S. no, I didn't hear. I didn't hear about that. This is the first time. You don't know about this? No, I don't know about this. What is the. Dude, it's like, you're not supposed to, like, eat lettuce and stuff right now. Okay. And, like, thoroughly wash your vegetables and fruits. Okay. All right, I'll make sure to do that. I mean, all the fruits. Maybe you should wash your finger too, though. Yeah, all the fruits I have right now are frozen, so I should be in the clear. I think. I think we're in the clear. Psych. Cyclospora parasitic outbreak. No, this is the first I've heard of this. No, I hadn't heard about this. I got my finger infected, and at first I wasn't sure what it was. I was like, did I just. Like, did I just jam it at the gym? Like, like on a weight or something? Like when I put a plate on the. The. The bar or something? So the first couple days I didn't go in, but then eventually I was like, oh, no, it's definitely infected. Went to the ER for the first time. Had to get antibiotics, and I had to go again to get it drained because it wasn't going down. So it actually wasn't that bad. And I'm pretty bad with that kind of stuff. But, like, just a little pressure and then it was basically done. And I felt so much better. Like, I didn't feel better in the moment. Cause I was, like, in a little bit of shock. But, like, once I got home and stuff, I felt way better. So that ate up most of my last week, you know, like three or four days. First I just kind of felt bad for a couple. Like, it was just, like, painful. And then had to go to the yard a couple times. But actually, it wasn't that bad. It was, like, pretty quick last time. Much of the hour. I was there for a while, but this time around, it was pretty quick. They got me in and out pretty quickly. So that was really cool. So that's what I did last week. This week, I'm streaming, playing Pokemon. Been playing in a lot of online tournaments recently, which has been fun. And I mean, it's like one of those times where it's like kind of, you know, format's kind of dead, right? So just kind of chilling, hanging out. It's like, harder to, like, be locked in on the format and the. Even the. The gameplay when I'm streaming and stuff like that, because, like, it is a dead format. But yeah, like you said, pitch black's. Coming up soon. I'll be doing a 12 hour stream release stream on Thursday so I'm gonna be trying out all the new cards, all the new decks, stuff like. Like that. I actually had a question for you Chip before you talk about your last two weeks. How do you feel about PlayStation removing physical, physical games? Because I know you're a big, you know physical. Like you like your video games and you like having the physical copy. I know this about you like having the physical copy of the video game. I'm a big time physical media guy for sure. Yeah. I mean I'm not a fan of it at all to be honest. But I definitely don't buy as many video games as I once did in my life. But it's probably like once a year or so a new game comes out that I get and I do always get the physical version still. I know you don't. You are very much like a digital age person. I just like the idea of like buying a thing, owning the thing, being able to play the thing forever. I've got. I used to have a very large video game collection. I don't anymore but I've got like the games that are most special to me that I've. Some of them I've had since I was a kid. Like my copy of. I've got like a couple dozen PlayStation 2 games that I've had for several years. Some count of them ones from my childhood that like I am looking forward to someday sharing with my kids and stuff. Things that I will always have access to. But now age of physical media coming to a close perhaps. I don't know. I mean it was, it was. It's kind of like an inevitable thing I feel like. But basically right. Like DVDs and VHS like those have been gone for a While I guess DVDs was the last iteration. I remember a couple years ago like when Best Buy stopped carrying Blu Rays that kind of being a big deal. I think you can go still get them like online a lot of places right. It's not like Blu Rays aren't made anymore. Like they still haven't like Target and Walmart and stuff. But that was a big retailer to drop carrying them just because they people don't buy them as much anymore. But the PlayStation 1 is really interesting to me because such a high percentage of sales of first party titles are still. I feel like I remember seeing some information there was some big Insomniac leak or PlayStation. I don't remember what it was but that a super high percentage of The Spider Man 2 sales, which was one of their big first party titles of the last couple of years. I don't remember know these exact numbers, but a huge percentage of them were still physical, you know, so people are buying it online, but a bunch of people are still buying it in stores. I think a big part of it too will be like people buying them as gifts. That's a pretty common thing as well. Like grandma doesn't know how to go into the store to get little Timmy doesn't know how to go onto the PlayStation store to get little Timmy, you know, Spider Man 2 or whatever can get him a gift card, I guess. But like grand grandma wants to get Timmy the thing he wants. She doesn't want to get him a gift card, you know. Yeah, I didn't actually see anything about that. Are they, are they transitioning at all to like some kind of gift card system where you could like buy the game as like a card with a code on it or. No. Is it fully. I mean that's what you can do right now. They do that currently. Like if you go into a Walmart, there will be a section that you can. You're buying a license to the game in the Walmart right there, basically. Oh, but you're not actually buying like the disc. Yeah. And you're not. I didn't know that. You're not buying a gift card. You're buying like a code for. Yeah, yeah, basically. They already do that. Yeah. So I guess those are going to stick around then. Probably. I would assume they're not getting rid of those. That was interesting. I knew you cared about that. So I was like curious what your thoughts were because like you said. Yeah, I don't really care. It does feel a little dystopian, I will say. But if it's better for the environment, like that's also like one thing is hard to like be against. So I don't know. But I thought you're. I was interested about your take. So besides that disheartening news, what else were you up to the. The last couple weeks? Yeah, I actually went on a pretty big vacation the last couple weeks. My wife and I took a big trip for our 10 year wedding anniversary. We got married back in 2016. Kind of crazy to have been married for 10 years now. It was a very long time. But yeah, we did a big long trip. We flew up to, to Portland and then drove over to the Oregon coast and then we drove down the Pacific coast all the way down into la and then we drove from LA up to Vegas and then we stayed in Vegas for a couple of nights and then flew home. So did like a big road trip. Saw drove down like the Pacific coast highway, stopped at like a lot of really cool beaches, cool areas. The drive itself is like the journey as well for that trip because it's like windy roads, no service is a pretty cool experience, to be honest. It was a lot of driving. It was a lot of time in the car. And the way that we. The mountains as well. Right? Yeah. The. Let me see if I can pull it up because I've driven up to Vancouver and maybe Portland, where I'm at in California. And we have to go. Yeah, we have to go through the mountains every time. Yeah. Let me show here on. So we flew over to Portland and we drove from Portland down this way and then we stayed on the coast all the way down here. Did you drive on the coast when you went up to Vancouver, did you go up on the interstate? It was in the interstate, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean this. It takes a lot longer to do it this way, but it's like much more scenic. There's like cool spots along the way. We stayed one night in Newport, which is like up here. I want. Yeah, right up here. We stayed one night here. Then we drove further down, stopping along the way, and did the redwoods, which was really cool. And then this is where the trip really deviated. You can have a. You have a choice kind of here to go through, stay on the 101 all the way down into California or get off and get on the one. And this stretch right here from Leggett, California, I guess over this way all the way to the coast. This is like the craziest stretch of road I think I've ever driven on. Brooke was like, holding on to the car as we're driving through because it is just windy, curvy roads, mountains. It's like kind of hard to like. The pictures are definitely not going to do it justice. But some of the stretches through here, like, are so back and forth, windy, up and down. It's like frozen now here for some reason. But it was a very cool trip. We had a lot of fun. We were kind of like talking about, like, what we wanted to do for this trip. And we'd kind of always wanted to go somewhere like tropical, like a resort, all inclusive type thing. But ultimately we decided we wanted to drive this area of this. The country that we have never really been to before. That's one of the things we came to appreciate too. Just about The US as well is just like, there's so many different types of biomes and environments you can experience without leaving the United States, which is pretty cool. But Monterey right here, Carmel by the Sea, this was really cool areas that we went to. Really beautiful. This is where, like, pebble beach is the iconic golf course. So very fun, very cool, very cool. Grass on the 10 years. I don't know if you had mentioned to me before that was 10 years or not, but long time for sure. Yeah, definitely cool. A lot of those areas I've never even been to. I've been in California for like five years now. But. But yeah, I think a lot of people, like, this is a drive that people do, like from LA up to San Francisco on Highway 1, like Big Sur. This area was pretty cool as well. But this is the, like, from San Francisco northward. This is definitely like a much less driven stretch of it. And I don't know, it was pretty. It was. It was a cool drive, for sure. A lot of fun. All right, well, like you said, we got a lot of new cards to talk about. Some from Orm Emeralda and some from the 30th celebration. So I don't know where you want to start, but I think most recently is the Mega Malamar from Storm Emerald or like, I guess longest ago. Not most recently. Yeah. So kind of a couple weeks of cards here to. To talk about that we haven't dived into quite yet. There will probably be more reveals this coming up week. Yeah, into. Because the set release is on the 24th, I want to say, over in Japan. So we'll get the full set really well, actually, we should maybe get the full. Then I think we get the full set release this week. This week actually then. Because I think it's always the week before the set actually drops. They. They reveal everything. We've got Sableye here with Lure Out. Reveal the top five cards of your opponent's deck. You may choose any number of basic Pokemon you find there and put them onto your bench. Your opponent shuffles the other cards back into their deck. It's like a little bit of a control card. Yeah, I actually think this card is like, pretty good, and I think it can be used in a lot of different ways. You could play some kind of control deck with it, obviously, and I don't know, you can do like, it could be retreat lock base, it could be Elgin Base. But just putting things on your opponent's bench that they don't want on their bench is good for any of those cards. But Also, like, I've been playing a lot with like a Mega Frost Last Monkey Dory deck. And if I would play one of this in that deck for sure, you know, force more things on the mental abilities. And it's like. It's also like an early game attacker for some decks that like might not have anything else to do anyways. So. Any reason you're not playing flute in that deck? Flu's just so much harder to find. Can't find the card only once. Also get item locked against Pult. But this card just seems super obnoxious. Like going up against this does not sound fun. Like imagine the catcher Meowth or something like. Yeah, catch your face and then retreat. Lock it. Like, I feel like this is going to be best in some sort of control deck for sure. I don't really see the vision for like outside of that. I can understand the Frost Last Monkey Dory deal for sure. But I mean that almost is like a. It's not a control deck, but it like similar aspects. Yeah, yeah. It's like slowing the pace of the game really. Right? Yeah, yeah. In some kind of like Prism Control, you play this, you play Cupchi, you play Elgym, play Prism Energy. I could see that being pretty good. Also another thing with this too. Remember we got Mue X coming out soon, so that's going to be like a Pokemon where it's like you can put your energy on the Mew and then you can disable Eye and then use the Elgium with like out committing your energy elsewhere. Yeah. I wonder if that will actually be a thing. I'd even think about that. I think the Mule, actually. I've been like seeing more and more like good ways to utilize Mew. I've seen people talk about or that I've thought about the museums. Like, it'll probably be pretty impactful card. Yeah, I think it's gonna be good for sure. It's definitely like a liability, right? It's a low HP2 prize Pokemon, but it's. It's one of those things where it's like the power potential of the card is worth the trade off of it being a liability in certain decks. Probably. Right. Not everything obviously, but definitely, definitely going to be a card that finds its place. And then We've got a NK Malamar Mega Malamar EX. The NK here. Not a bad attack. 10 damage Discard random card from your opponent's hand. I remember there was a time where there was like this. You would play like one of the Zarua that would Discard a card from your opponent's hand just in case they like weren't ever thinking about, you know, you could catch them off guard in certain decks that like played Darkness Energy around like the Zorg gx or it was like the Zork Break deck maybe. Is that what I'm thinking of? I don't remember the Sarua. There was like, there was one that confused your opponent's Active and then one that did this. You like discarded or shuffled in a card from their hand. And maybe not everyone did it, but I always played one of the Shuffle in one just like, just in case you ever got him lacking, you know, Keep them honest. And then. Mega Malamar EX 320 HP Stage 1 Mega Evolution Darkness type Pokemon for two dark psychic marionettes. 70 times this tech does 70 damage for each of your opponents. Benched Pokemon. And then Eerie Pulse 200. Your opponent's active is now confused. Yeah, I don't know about this one. It's. I mean, your opponent has so much control and this almost feels like a card where you'd have to commit more of the deck towards it to like make it function. It would be hard to like see this being played in like a Toxicity box as like a one of. And it feels like it has to be played with Toxicity. So. But I mean, I don't know. You can play flutes with it, right? I think the same light. You could also play the Sableye. Right. And that could be like your early game attacker. And then you go into the Malamar, they have like nothing for like the mid range. So this would just lose to any like two prize deck or a lot of two prize decks and one prize decks just because like then you have to play something for the middle like that, those matchups. So the card just kind of seems like. It seems like a Sharpedo or just like a little bit too awkward for it to actually ever function competitively. Unfortunately. Yeah, I think it seems okay, but it doesn't quite do enough. The second attack is like an okay thing to fall back on if they like have less of a bench. But it's three Darkness Energy. It's not. I mean, the fact that it's Darkness Energy, right. It works with Monkey Dory, works with Toxicity. Like there's enough decent Dark support out there, but like. Yeah, okay, yeah. Your opponent needs literally a full bench for you to hit the big numbers. Right. Otherwise you're just coming up short on. On everything. I used to play maximum belt hit for what, 330. You should do that. Force them to Play Terror Pokemon. Then put Area 0 in play. And then you can hit. Hit big. Yeah. Seems. Seems like it's too much. It kind of just feels like it's like another Sharpedo to me. And then we do have a couple of other cards. There was the jirachi ex from 30th celebration. A basic Ex Pokemon metal type Wish Granter for a colorless draw cards until you have seven cards in your hand. And then Swift 150 for three colorless. This attack's damage isn't affected by weakness or resistance or any effects on your opponent's active Pokemon. It just kind of feels a little too weak. 160 HP you're putting in the active. There's like other attacks you could do instead that probably like a call for Family Attack. Obviously it has like the. The Swift attack to go with it. Which means it can be like a Anti Wall card. Yeah. But that's where I feel like this is most likely to come up is like something plays it so that they have an answer to whatever wall is out there. The first attack is kind of just a bonus in that regard. That makes sense. But it. I think it's a very like metagame specific deck. Specific. Like if there is a deck that's all Ex Pokemon that there's some wall you need an answer to. Like some sort of Mui Xbox. Right now this is another. This is a card you can put with like a Mue X deck. And it almost feels like the first attack should let you. You should be able to use it when you go first. Like and even then it probably is not that good. Right. And we already have that I think in the form of a. Some type of Coco, I think. Discard your hand. Draw five for a single Lightning. So it's something similar in the format. But there was a Talon Flame V for a long time that never saw play. Yeah. I think the Coco literally has the same attack but it draws one less card. Yeah. We'll say with the Jirachi. It feels like they're giving us more draw to seven cards than they have previously. We have the Delphox that draws to seven. This thing draws to seven. I feel like five and six. We're using the numbers you're drawing up to. But they're giving us more draw power through. Or there's. I feel like the number seven for drawing cards. It just doesn't come up that often. But they're giving it. Giving to us. Giving it to us more on these cards recently, which is interesting. Cleffa drew to seven, right? Oh, that's true. Clever. Always had the seven. Maybe not then. Maybe not. I guess we've had Clefa for a long time. Or it's been in and out for a long time. Did the old. Did the E 2011. E have 2011. Okay. Okay. I guess with the clef. And maybe that's when the seven started. Yeah. OG EEK was seven back in 2000. So they downgraded it and then they upgraded it. Yeah, but they needed to downgrade stuff from that era, that is for sure. Go back and read some cards from Neogenesis and you'll see. All right, we've got a couple other cards here revealed. The big one being this Mega Golisopod Ex. Did you know Glyopod had a Mega aul? I don't think so, no. Well, he does. And there he is. Doesn't even look that different in the card, to be honest. He's got like a lot of the Megas look. More legs, more arms. Yeah. Yeah. A handful of cards here to read alongside it there's a cacturne with this punishing needle attack. 10 plus 50 more damage for each of your opponent's Pokemon in play that has an ability. So if you really want to Ko and in Zork, you can use this card. I feel like this card's pretty decent. There's a lot of. When you think about, there's a lot of abilities right now in deck, everything has an ability. I mean, then why wouldn't you play Ability Pokemon? Right. So get the Pokemon plus plus an extra thing. But we'll see. Might have to come through weakness where it becomes relevant. But there's a lot of abilities like in the current metagame. And who knows what the future holds. We got a Wimpod with the Punk out ability. Similar ish to the class classic Wimp out from the OG Wimpod Glycopod gx. If your opponent has any Pokemon Ex in play, this Pokemon's retreat cost is 0. Otherwise it is the printed 3 retreat cost. And then mega golisopod ex 340 hp stage 1 grass type mega Evolution Pokemon Ex with the finishing blow attack. 60 plus. This attack does 160 more damage if your opponent's active Pokemon has any damage counters on it. And then Quattro hold 160 damage for three colorless. During your opponent's next turn, the defending Pokemon cannot retreat. Gotta keep those defending Pokemon locked up. Can't let them move. And also, yeah, for the Wimpod, it could still be called Wimp Out. Right. When we get the official transition translation, the wimp out might be back. But it's a different effect. I guess it is different. We've seen that in the past where it's like the same thing but a different. Slightly different. Right. Haven't we? I mean, we could look at whatever the Japanese version of the old Wimpod looks like. Oh, true. We could just like know right now. Yeah. And I don't think it is. Does it make a glissopod? I think it's like, okay. It's very like, compared to something like the Mega Malamar. You could easily splash like a 2.2Mega glissopod in a deck and have it be effective without having to commit as much to the card. So I think there's. There. I don't think it'll ever be like its own thing. Maybe it could be though. A lot of people are talking about like Mega Glossopod Frost Last. But at that point, why don't you just play Mega Frost Last. Frost Last. Yeah. Obviously like your opponent does have a little bit more control over what Mega Frost Last can do for an attack, but it's a little bit more efficient in terms of deck space. So. Also growing grass energy. 360 hp. Right. That's kind of cool. Wallies works really well with the card because it is a one energy attack. You will have to figure out some way to be. I do want to have to be mobile with it. But you'll. You'll only be hitting for potentially 60 damage if their activism have any damage on it. So. Yeah, I think there's hope for. Yeah. Team Rockets Venture Bomb. That could be the. That could be the answer. It's possible. Is now the time? Yeah. The Rockets Crowbat. I actually kind of like that. It might be time. It might be time. Bite back in the mix. And the Crowbat. Not bad either. Yeah. I think that this card is. I mean the numbers are just good. Right. High HP efficient attack. It's just about how you're getting the activator there. Right. Obviously there's nothing as simple as like a Galerian zigzagoon in the format. Which is probably for the best. Alongside this. Right. Might would be a little too efficient. I don't know if it would be like oppressive, but it might just like do too much for too little type thing. Yeah. But yeah, I think there's some cards out there that could work with this. Venture Bomb and the Crobat Golbat were the first kind of things that came to mind for Me some like math fixing stuff. I think. I think there's something here for sure. I think that. Yeah, it's just efficient. Yeah. Big Pokemon 3 retreat cost isn't great. This guy's gonna get stuck. Which is kind of annoying maybe in certain instances, but seems like a decent card. Yeah. I think you're just playing to be swinging with it anyways. But yeah, I like the. I like the Golbat and the Crowbat though. Maybe those will finally see some play. Because I think they. I think those are. I mean those are good cards. Like I think we'll eventually see them in action at some point. Dude, I just hope we never see as long as these stage one energy efficient mega Pokemon exist. Please Pokemon, just do not give us a print of super scoop up. Please don't. No super scoop ups. No, I'll play that. I don't want to play in that world. Please. Yeah, we have Wally. I think Wally is like a balanced version of like Healing, right? Yeah. Order for turn. Yeah, definitely, definitely. And then we got Wishy Washy Ex. Speaking of healing. 260 HP basic water Pokemon with this ability Ocean Game. You may use this ability once during your turn if this Pokemon is in the active spot heal 50 damage from this Pokemon and then Hydro Splash 220 for three water and a colorless. Yeah, this is like a pretty underwhelming card. I actually feel like the best way to maybe utilize this is like some kind of tank and run deck where you'd like take a hit, run to a new Wishy Washi and then this kind of cycle between them. But I mean bosses in the format it has only 368 or 260 HP. And we're about to read custom vests here which could boost it a little bit. But even then that feels like a little weak overall. So I don't see a bright future for the Wishy Washy. I don't think. Yeah, it doesn't seem amazing. Misty's coming out obviously, which this would work well with. Right. Where you can like Misty a bunch of energy onto this thing to get it powered up, ready to go and start attacking. But. And 220 does KO like a lot of the, you know, basic ex's right. That are running around out there. Which is nice. I didn't. I guess you have to. To use the ability you have to be in the active, which is kind of unfortunate. Like the only thing I thought of was like it could just be a bench sitter against spread decks when you need Pokemon on your bench to do more damage, but you can't even use its ability on the bench, so that wouldn't even like work. So. Yeah, I don't even. I don't see a spot for this in general. Maybe. I don't know, maybe there's something else that's going to come out with it though, eventually. I. I guess, like, the only thing I see is like, if the format's slow enough and everyone's just kind of two hitting each other in a meta game, then the witchy Washy deck, like you just run between wishy washis, take hits and heal. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it does have 260. Right. So it just kind of depends on the numbers out there. And then also we're gonna read the stadium card here, which can double the amount of damage healed, which works with jumbo ice cream. Right. So like you're healing 100 plus 140. Right. Like you can fully heal this thing basically as long as it doesn't get one hit. KO'd, but gotta be able to tank some hits for sure. We got the delicious rice balls with donuts crossed. Do you know the. The reference here? No. What's the donut lore? I saw people mentioning it in the Pokemon cartoon back in the day. Whenever rice balls would appear as like a food that they were eating in a restaurant or like out on the road or whatever, they called them donuts. It was like a translation. They called them donuts because they didn't think the kids would like care about rice balls exist. Like they wouldn't know what this was. Yeah. So they literally on the anime in the cartoon, back when we were kids, it was. They called them donuts. Interesting. So that's the joke here on Poke Beach. Delicious rice balls. He'll heal 30 damage from your active Pokemon. Heal 30 more damage for each delicious rice balls card in your discard pile. I mean, so it's like, okay, healing, it's better than a potion. It's not as good as jumbo ice cream, but jumbo ice cream only heals the active and you need 3 energy on it. But ice cream is just better. Like it's like jumbo ice cream is just like really, really good. So yeah, I don't know about this one. Maybe if there's some way to like more aggressively recycle them. But it kind of just feels like bad jumbo ice cream. But I get like. But once again, Jumbo Iceman requires only heals. The active has to have three energy. So it's kind of like the trade off There. Yeah. I think it seems like. Okay. But again, I agree, like Jumbo ice cream is probably going to just be better in most instances. But the potential to heal 90 for just one item. Yeah, it's okay. It's okay. Maybe we'll get like. It's a lot. It's a lot of work, I guess. Yeah. Maybe we'll get like enough heel cards where you could just play like a heal deck. Like Tank Kangasan might play for these. And four Jumbo ice cream. Right. Like just play it all. We've got Custom vest. The Pokemon this card is attached to is a Pokemon tool. Excluding any Pokemon Mega Pokemon EX. Take 60 less damage from the attacks of your opponent's Mega Pokemon. Exactly. Wow. So this card actually seems like pretty good. I'm a pretty big fan of this card. It's gonna be like super meta specific. Right. Megas are gonna have to be pretty popular or it could just be like a tech for a deck. For a Mega deck as well, so. But obviously we're headed towards like a Mega only format soon. Like we're not far from just Megas, right. Are we one rotation or two rotations away? One rotation. One rotation. Then we're into like only Mega sets. So early next year sometime April next year, I guess probably. Right. If we keep the same trend. Yeah. April next year will be Megas only or Mega Sets only. Obviously it's not only Megas for exs, but so yeah, I mean it's a good card. Right. Minus 60s a lot. So I think it'll see its moment for sure. And then Arun here, Arun around. I don't know how to say people calling his name. I thought people just calling it Aaron. It might just be Aaron. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Apparently this guy, this character is in the Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire games, which is a remake of Ruby and Sapphire. And he like appears once to teach you about this like niche mechanic in the game called Secret Bases, which I don't even remember this guy and I played those games a ton back in like 20, 15, 16, whenever they came out. I don't remember exactly when I was. I played those games so much. Yeah. And I do know it sounds like. I mean he like shows up one time and that's it basically. Yeah. He said he teaches. He's gonna be helping you set up some niche cards, I feel like as a niche supporter in the tcg. And here is the effect. Search your deck for up to three supporter or stadium cards in any combination. Reveal them and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your Deck. Yeah. So it has obvious synergy with the new Double Stadium cards. Another one got revealed, but overall it's also a reprint. Yeah. What was the card called? I forgot what it was called. Scott. Yeah. Shout Out Scott. Replaced now by Aaron, who is also a niche character from his respective game. Yeah. And Scott was like solid, right? It wasn't anything crazy, but I feel like it was solid back when it was when, like we're playing old decks. It was in some of the older decks. It was definitely play. This was a like, good card. It was not like. Well, I guess like there was also the. There's Battle Frontier though, in the format, right? Yeah. So that makes Scott way better. We don't have a. A Battle Frontier in the current form, but we do have the double stadiums currently. What do you mean, do we. I mean we have Watchtower, Team Rockets, Watchtower, Battle Frontier, Shut down, Metal Dark. It's not like a path to the peak. I feel like that was a path to the peak level card. Right? You're right. Yeah. We don't have like. There's no power plant Path to the peak. Yeah. I guess Watchtower could become that though, eventually, Right? Will the Dunsparce be around after an extra rotation and Noctowl? No, they both. No. And neither will Watchtower. Oh, it also rotates. Okay, well, it's. It's time is now, I guess, for Watchtower to be its path. It's pat to the peak moment is right now, I guess. And it's not being that so though I do think. I think this card is very okay also. Yeah, I do think that this now is the type of format where a card like this is more likely to succeed because there is not great hand disruption. Like you're gonna get to stack your hand with whatever you want for a couple turns. Obviously it also works nicely with the Double Stadium. So if you're playing the double stadiums and something, this guy seems pretty solid to pair alongside that. But this seems like a very decent card. I would not. I don't think it's like incredible. Definitely going to be played in a lot of stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised for it to be played as a one or two of. In like a handful of decks. Like it seems. It seems solid. I could also see like control decks specifically or like Crustal maybe, like if you can find more value from your stadiums, but then just like stacking good supporters for a couple turns in a row. And who knows, maybe this is what Mega Floette was missing. Right. With the Prism Tower Stadium. I haven't even tried that deck myself. I haven't even given it a shot. But no, that deck is missing, like a Nine Tails or something to keep that stadium locked in play. That's what that deck's missing. They did finally give us a proactive double stadium here. Yes. Legendary Ocean Trench. Again, it's a double stadium. You gotta have both halves in your hand to put it into play. And its effect. When a Pokemon in play is healed, both yours and your opponents, double the amount of damage healed, not limited to just Water Pokemon, which you might expect by looking at the artwork on the card. It's any thing that is healed by any effect. Double the amount of damage healed could be the effect of an attack, a supporter, an item, whatever. Actually don't know the. Is Monkey Dory moving damage, healing a Pokemon, or. No, no. Right, right. It, like, specifies. Okay, okay. I remember, like, some previous confusion with Cresselia and Jirachi because Chrisalia doesn't say what Jirachi says, but it's like the same thing, so it stops the damage placement correctly. If I'm remembering correctly. Do you know what I'm talking about? No. I mean, I know what cards are, but I haven't. Like, I don't remember this interaction. Yeah. Chris. Yeah. The Cresselia that people play in the Guard War. Which one was it? Yeah, there we go. Move two damage counters. Yeah, you're moving damage counters. It's the same as I think Jirachi says place, but it's. It's the same thing. I still stopped it. I'm pretty sure Jirachi still stopped it. Even though the wording was different, the intention is the same. Yeah. I mean, no, that's what I was wondering. Oh, Move versus place. Okay, sure. Yeah. Yeah. So like with Monkey Dory, it's moving damage, which isn't the same as healing. So, like, it wouldn't like Monkey dory when heal 60 and then move 30 is what I'm saying. Yeah, but like all the other heel cards, the wishy washes healing 100. This card could actually. It's still tough. It's still the double stadium. I know, I know. We're getting Aaron here. Like some kind of tank deck. That's like not trying to draw price cards too quickly, not putting yourself in special red card range. Also, like, another thing to think about. Unfair stamp does rotate eventually. So, like, you won't have to worry about, like, when you take an aggro prize card, your hand's not going to immediately get shuffled back to your deck. So I can see it's being okay. We'll see. I don't think Wishy Washy is going to be the move, but some other kind of Tank deck in the future. Some psychic deck with jacinth, you know, heal 300. Calm down. That's a lot of healing. Anything with jumbo ice cream, all of a sudden you're healing 140 for an item card. What? Yeah, it's not bad. Just have to have it all work and also be able to win the game somehow. Like that's a lot of cards committed to like healing your Pokemon. How are we doing damage? How are we joining prize cards? Or like. Yeah, maybe this is more a more control style deck. Like I could see that possibly. Tank Kangaskhan, here we come. Yeah. Control Tank Kangasan. You actually just don't draw prize cards. You just sit there and Tank hits. Nah, dude, we're swinging. I know. Swinging. No. Swinging. No. We just Tank hits and then Monkey Dory. The damage draw to their side of the field. That's it. And then we heal when we need to at the stadiums. Broken. Yeah. I think this one seems much better than the Rayquaza one. But I also do wonder. We've seen Rayquaza. We've seen this one which feels a little Kyogre esque. Are we gonna see something for fire slash fighting Pokemon with a Groudon? Are we gonna see Kyogre and Groudon get cards? Eventually. Have to wonder. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I wonder how also. This feels almost like a one set mechanic though. I think like they're gonna print two or three of these in this set and that's gonna be it for these double stadiums. I don't think it's gonna be an ongoing thing. They do that a lot. Yeah, it always just. It always feels bad. It always feels like you'd like. Like to see like a. I mean it's not a block, but like a. I don't know where they usually do something for like four sets. It would be nice to see this like expanded over four sets with a bunch of different ideas. But feels like a. And then last couple cards revealed here. These just revealed today, I believe, or yesterday. Tornadus, Thunderous, Landerous and Enamorous. All basic Pokemons with this incarnate union ability which says if you have all the guys in play, you ignore the colorless energy and the attack costs of the Pokemon. The thunder is here for a lightning and two colorless thunder. Edge 90 damage ignoring effects. Enamorus 2 psychic two colorless 100 plus. If the opponent's active is an EX, it's 100 more. The lander is for fighting. For just one fighting and two colorless. 110 Discard a stadium in play. And then tornadoes here. Corkscrew dive, which you can use for free. Zero energy. 70 damage. You may draw cards until you have six cards in hand. Yeah, I mean the tornadoes is definitely the best of them. Like tornadoes. If there's gonna be a reason this is good at all. Like tornadoes is the reason. I don't know. I guess the enamorus does hit for 200. So you're like two hitting most things. This one does require two attachments though, compared to the others which just need one. I don't know. Fighting is usually a good type to be able to hit for weakness. Right. We have wonders patch for the Enamorous. I maybe. Yeah. I didn't realize the tornadoes attacked for free. That's like the thing that's actually making me come around on this a little bit. Definitely seems like a bit more of like a gimmicky for fun thing. Like I think this is. The game designers have talked before how they want to make cards that are not just like good competitively, but like interesting and fun. Right. Like, this is like very much a kitchen table type of deck. Right. But there's interesting stuff going on here also. Like, I think the way it would work. Yeah. It's the attacks used by this Pokemon, you know, you could use. I guess all the teams rotated, didn't they? So never mind. I was gonna say like blindside or crisis punch, but those things are all gone. Yeah. I guess if they come up with something in the future that would be able to combo with them as well. Yeah, probably. Probably not good. It probably is the. The kitchen table style deck. But yeah, I wouldn't 100 write it off actually. Just be able to like attack aggressively with the tornado and like drawing cards taking knockouts. The Enamorus does hit pretty hard. Like 200 damage on a1 prizer is not bad if you get the prize lead especially. So that's kind of how you start to clean things up and take two. It kills from there. So yeah, we'll wait and see. But yeah, probably more of a meme deck than anything. Well, that's all the new cards revealed. Our next topic this week. We were going to talk about the season information. Well, we're not going to talk about it. We're going to talk about the lack of it because there has not been a reveal yet of the information about the first couple of regionals. By this time last year, we had kind of a lot of information. We knew the first couple regionals. We knew what the world's qualification process was going to look like. We knew numbers for prize pools, we knew tournament structures. And we know none of that currently. What. What time last year did they put the information out? Was like, at the. It was the end of June, right? Like June 29th or something. I think it was the first, like, end of June, beginning of July. Okay. Yeah, I want to say. Okay. I don't remember exactly. I remember it being, like, pretty timely, though. And like, I think it was like the community in general felt pretty good about that. I mean, there's a couple things. I mean, world's a little bit later this year than it was the last two years or so. We actually don't know when the date for the first event is going to happen. Right. I think that's like, the one thing is, like, I think they're pretty consistent with this. Last year is like, registration on RK9 was available about eight weeks before each major tournament. So, like, as of right now, the first major tournament would be the second weekend or third weekend in September. Right. And I don't remember what was the first event we had last year. When was. It was in September, right? Yeah, it was the Pittsburgh Regional, September 19th. I went back to look. So, I mean, we're still kind of on track for like, that eight weeks out type situation, but we might. I mean, maybe we're not gonna get a September event. I would kind of be surprised if we did at this point because. Yeah, I think the last couple years we've always had a. The first tournament has always been four weeks or so after worlds, at least. Like, it's not been earlier than four. Four weeks last couple years. Yeah, yeah, historically it has. But yeah, you're right. I think it's been out a little ways out, which I think is like, that would put us at, like, missing September completely. Sometime in October being the first regionals of the season. Who knows, though? Yeah, I mean, I. I would be surprised if it was past October. I have a feeling we're definitely gonna get an event in October. I guess the last weekend of September is the fourth week after world, so there's a chance that there could be regionals then, I guess. Yeah. So, I mean, those are like, all factors into it being a little bit later than last year. World is later. The first event might be later. So maybe we're still in like, a similar time frame, but it's got to be soon, right? It's got to be like this week or next week. I feel like otherwise at that point I'm getting like, when, where, why is there? I'm hoping the reasons are that we are having a later start. So then time frame wise it still kind of lines up similar to what historically we've had the last couple of years. Or they're going to give us all the information at once and maybe that's why they're taking a little bit longer because they want to like get everything out there, which would be pretty cool. I. I mean, I'm hopeful for that. I doubt that's gonna happen. Of course they usually announce the events later in the year as the event progresses. So hopefully comes out sooner than later though. It would be. Yeah, definitely a shock if it doesn't come out the next two weeks though. Yeah, yeah. Hopefully sometime soon. Azul and I do not know. Despite what people may think, we genuinely do not know. So yeah, hopefully we do get word of that soon. I think one of the big things is like. Because like I don't think anyone should book travel necessarily this early. Like travel. I think flights and stuff generally are cheapest. Like five to six weeks before something like you basically just want to avoid booking like within 10 days, I would say of like when you want to travel usually. I don't know, there's definitely a sweet spot of like a month out usually is like a good decent time frame to work with for. Same thing with hotels. Hotels don't really get that much more expensive until like maybe two weeks before. It depends if like there's other big events happening in the area, of course. But like two months out is usually more than. Yeah, you could get lucky and if there's nothing else happening, like they go down in price. But yeah, yeah, that is a risky game to play, I will say. Yeah, the big thing is definitely people getting time off work to try and attend the events and trying to get that in as soon as possible. So that would be nice to like see that those people be accommodated, be able to like, you know, put that into their work. So families as well, planning like around school and fall activities and you know, I mean a lot of kids who play Pokemon are also very involved in other aspects of school. Sports events, you know, band concerts, you know, all sorts of different things happening that people need to try to plan around accordingly. Right. Yeah. So a little bit behind this this year, but those might be the factors as to why. Hopefully they are. And hopefully it's not like Second week of September, we have a regional or something like that, so that'd be pretty quick. Yeah, it is feeling like we might not have or it might be the last weekend of September for the first. The first major coming up. Actually thinking about it, the first major this year wasn't even in North America, was it? I don't think so. Which I feel. Is it. It's not usually though, is it? Is that I don't know if there's like a super consistent thing to pull back from there. Oh, yeah, it was. It was. It was Monterey. Monterey. Yeah. Monterey. Frankfurt took place the same weekend and they were about a month after Worlds. Yeah. And then the week after that was Pittsburgh. Yeah. Yeah. It's got to be coming up soon. It's got to be this week or next week for sure. When they drop, did they. Do they consistently drop, like updates, like on a certain day of the week? I don't haven't like paid attention to that either. No. I think that last year was on a Monday though. So maybe this coming Monday we can keep our eye out. But I don't think, who knows, maybe we're gonna post this episode and then like happened before where like a big information drops literally the day. The day after we do the recording, which is always unfortunate. But we'll talk about it next week then. Of course. Yeah, maybe an emergency 0.5 episode or something later this week if that happens. Yeah. But up next we got guess that flavor text. This week Chip picked a card for me to try and guess which Pokemon belongs to the flavor text. If I get it right without using any lifelines, I'll get four points. I currently do have a lead, but it has shrunk to just a three point lead. For each lifeline I use, I get one less point. Like I mentioned, there's three lifelines. What set the card is from, what stage of card is, and then read an attack name. Chip. I'm ready for this week's flavor text. This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome, that's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50 page restoration duration block. Or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini and Chrome is here for it. Ready to make anything online make sense. There's no place like Chrome. Check responses set up required compatibility and availability various 18 plus. All right, I've got it picked out here for you, Azul. Here we go. It races through narrow caves Using its sharp claws to catch prey. The skin on its face is harder than a rock. This is like. I don't even know it. This is like. Say it again. It races through narrow caves using its sharp claws to catch prey. The skin on its face is harder than a rock. I feel like this could be, like, some kind of lizard. Pokemon, like a Sandile or Slandit, races through dark caves to catch prey. Read to me one more time. I'll probably do some lifelines. It races through narrow caves, using its sharp claws to catch prey. The skin on its face is harder than a rock. It could be one of the bats. Oh, hey, give it to me one more time. One more time. Give me one last time. It races through narrow caves using its sharp claws to catch prey. The skin on its face is harder than a rock. I don't think bats have claws, technically. They would have talons, actually. I don't even. They have feet. They have feet. What do they got? They have. I don't know if they technically have claws. All right, let's do some lifelines here. Let's just go with what set the card is from. It is from Legendary Treasures. I mean, as far as I know, there could be a Salanded in that set. All right, give me an attack Name. Clutch. Legendary Treasures. That's an older set, right? It's black and white set. Black and white set Clutch. I don't think it's a land. It has clutch. Gonna be Yveltal. Yveltal has. I can't fully picture your votes on my hand. Could have claws Sevel. Racing through narrow caves to catch. Let's see. The clutch is throwing me out. What Pokemon has clutch? All right, what stage is the card? It is. It is a basic. Okay, Basic Legendary Treasures Clutch. Yeah, yeah. Is it, like. No. I was, like, thinking, like, Zigzagoon or Zangoose. They don't have skin on their face, so. Well, everyone's got skin on their face. Yeah, but that's not. Like, I don't. But, like, I mean, I guess under the fur, the skin on their face could be as hard as a rock. I guess under the fur, the skin on their face. I give it to me one more time. Give me the lifeline one more time. It races through narrow caves using its sharp claws to catch prey. The skin on its face is harder than a rock. Man, I don't know. This is. This is. Now I'm kind of, like, out. Races through narrow caves. Doesn't make me think that it necessarily, like, lives in the cave. But it could. What I say, Salandits. I could just go, no. Is this land. It was Slander. No, no Slander. Want to be a Pokemon in black and white. Good job. Good boy. Yeah. So claws, Lutch. Darker, colorless, Probably a dark. I mean, most dark Pokemon have clutch. I'm trying to think what other Pokemon have clutch besides dark Pokemon that I can think of. I can't really think of any. Let me think of dark Pokemon real fast. Oh, maybe. I mean, no, that doesn't have claws. So it has to have clause. Just go with Sandile, I guess. I don't. I don't think Sandile is clutch. I was supposed to go, Sandile, lock it in. Yeah. Azul, it is not Sandile, unfortunately. One more hint for you. Perhaps its ability could help you. It has the ability. Rough skin. It doesn't help me. I mean, it takes less damage, right? Oh, is it Druddigon? It is Druddigon. And yeah, it does have the clutch. It does have clutch, yeah. Yeah. I can't picture this thing racing through caves. He's zooming. But yeah, apparently at the clutch, it was colorless. I was, like, pretty sure it had to be callless or dark, so I had that much correct, I guess. But yeah, I don't think I'd ever gotten to the. To the Druddigon. Maybe if you've given me the ability name, then I would have. Then I probably. You got it pretty quickly. Yeah. Yeah, dude. I remember on ptcgo back in the day, whenever there was like. Like, dude, I would see this card in Legacy decks so often, and it's just so bad. It's like, not a good card at all. But I feel like I would. Anytime I would cue Legacy, there was, like, a decent shot. Someone was playing this Druddigon in their deck. I think it was, like, from the Legacy deck builder. The Legacy deck builder just loved, like, if you did, like, auto build or whatever. It just loved this card for some reason. Yeah. Big fans of the Druddagon. Was it ever good? I can't remember it ever being good. Maybe it was, like, talked about, though. No, not this Druddigon. There's some other. Okay, Druddagons. Yeah, there was the one that killed Black Kirum. Right. Revenge. This guy. Yeah. Yeah, that was a good one. This card got played. Other than that, I don't really think so. Not that I remember, I think. No. But the. The other artwork, the first artwork looks super familiar. I feel like this was. Maybe it wasn't good, though. Maybe it was like. I think it was one of those cards where people talked about playing it but no one ever actually played it. It was like more of a theory card than an actually being good card. Yeah, well, no point sizzle. That's okay. That's just what we want. You run out of time, Chip. You run out of time. I've got plenty of time. I've got. Well, maybe not plenty of time, but I've got enough time which is all that matters. That's enough. All right, we'll keep it rolling and talk about the release of Pitch Black this week. It'll be out Thursday, correct aul and you're going to be doing a 12 hour stream. There will be. It does seem like this set, I don't know, impactfulness wise. Like how there's a couple of pretty interesting cards. It seems like Excadrill is definitely getting a lot of talk. Gladian a big card it seems like for the festival lead deck specifically that people are thinking of. Yeah. What are you excited to give a shot whenever the set drops? What's going to be the first thing you queue up? You think? Yeah, I mean the top two are definitely exadrill and hide and sneak stuff. But then there's like the Toucanon. I mean there's like a lot of cool things to try to cannon. The slow bro Rampardo, the fossil stuff in general. Make a chandelure. Yeah, I think, I mean it's gonna. Those are the top two extra drill, hide and sneak. Obviously a bunch of different ways to play the hide and sneak deck. Or I guess like there's maybe two ways it's gonna be spread or delmise focused. Those would be the ways that people will be playing the playing the decks. Yep. This set was legal for the Japan Championship so I'm sure some people will be kind of like referenced that a little bit when deck building Gwyn also I mean hey, that's a card that's like. It's a lot of draw power potentially. It does obviously I think make the most sense in this deck but for sure, yeah. Hide and sneak probably gonna be up there but I mean if we look at the decks from the Japan Championships set didn't really have a huge splash besides the hide and sneak deck. Yeah. And we saw some extra drills on stream throughout the tournament. I remember but and looking at like the most recent like meta and success breakdowns on the the Pokebook Twitter, it looks like Dragon Balls. Like there was a moment post Japan Championships where like things are evening out a little bit with like Hide and Sneak hype. And I think like the most recent meta breakdowns that I've seen have been like Dragapult still like. Yeah, yeah, there we go. I mean there's Dragon Ball Blazing is on everybody's like 25 of the meta game and there's like a tier separating it and all the other decks and Hide and Sneak's not even there anymore. What? No, Snuck away. It's hiding. These are just gym battle results. So nothing major, nothing crazy. You know, basically like league challenges or even just like locals basically. So there's not too much to like. There's nothing that's too concrete to take away from it. But this is a funny one. Dragapult and then Dragapult also. And also Dragapult and then everything else. So I mean. Yeah, that's kind of. Kind of sad looking. I think we are. The more. The more new sets come out. Dragon Ball continues to dominate. I think we are just kind of waiting for Dragapult to rotate to hopefully unlock a bunch of the cars that have potential. But it does make me wonder, should they just ban Dragapult and just get. Is there. Would it be that bad to just kind of get it over with and not wait till rotation hits? So it's kind of like freshen things up a little bit preemptively. I don't think they'll do it, but yeah, I don't think they'll do it. The only time they've ever banned stuff in the standard format is if it's been like toxic slash game breaking. Yeah, I mean, you could argue Dragon Ball is kind of toxic. It's just annoying though. It's like annoying more than anything. Yeah, it's pretty annoying. So, yeah, we're stuck with it for quite a few more months, unfortunately. Actually. It's a long time. Is it like eight months? We're stuck with it for like eight more months. We got a little while. We got a little. A little bit of time. Three more sets including, I guess four more sets including. Because we got this Abyssai. We've got. Or Pitch Black, I should say. We've got 30th celebration, we've got storm emerald and then one more before rotation. Maybe two more. Question mark. I guess one that'll come out alongside the rotation sets, right? Or rotation. Yeah, it'll be a special set and then the rotation set. Right? Yeah. Everything will, I think will line up. So honestly, that's actually kind of unfortunate. Dragon Ball is going to be played for a majority of next season still, right I mean it gets its full, full time in the sun, whatever, full three years or whatever. I guess not every card gets fully three years, right? Depends on where in its letter number letter it gets. Oh, I feel like this is a good opportunity for me to get on my soapbox and talk about how much I dislike the mid season rotation compared to what we used to have in the past where we rotated after worlds. Because I just really enjoyed that time frame of the game which is what really the entirety like the entire history of the game up to 2018 was that rotation happened after the World Championships because you would have a whole season. You know, you talking about like dragapult being played through most of the season made me think about this time frame. Like just like being able to follow a deck's story and players being able to have a deck that they kind of worked with through a year and then it all come culminating at the world Championships and then it was like a great send off to whatever the format was. And like another thing that made me think about this recently is I saw people were building like apparently people now build battle styles to Paradox Rift decks, which is the format before rotation at EUIC in 2023. So it's like people are building these like whenever people are building retro, they're now choosing to build these formats that didn't. They weren't world championship formats, which is like what always we did in the past because that was the premiere format of the year. It's like what people worked for and got to. But now people are choosing to build these kind of like more complete formats. More complete formats? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's like now you go back and you try to build like for retro and this is like I don't think that the way people are building retro deck should impact how Pokemon does their rotations and stuff. But it's like just maybe it is a good indicator of like how people feel about it in general. Like people enjoy the more complete formats. Would it not make more sense for the premiere event of the year to take place in the complete format? I don't know. I mean I feel like a lot of competitive players probably agree, like, I agree, I think like, but we've talked about like one. One of the reasons being like marketing, right? Like the most people watching the game for the first time is worlds and then they want to get into the game. So then being able to play with the decks that they just saw on stream, marketing wise makes sense, right? We've always talked about that. So that is like a Reason? I don't know. A set always comes out right after Worlds anyway. So like it changes anyway. Yeah, it changes, but you can still basically play a lot of the same decks you just saw. For sure. Yeah. I don't know how much that matters though for like people still not wanting to just get into the game. Right. And it'd be a good way for them to like at the Worlds they can advertise the new set and rotations happening what remain, like, you know what I'm saying? Like they could do a lot of advertising for the new format after Worlds concludes. Right. Put people in the right direction if they want to get into the game. So yeah, I mean, I agree, like we should want to rotate after Worlds, but I think with that we'd also want to rotate. We'd want Japan to rotate at the same time as us after Worlds and we'd want to then have to be at the same point with sets or we could still be a little bit removed, I guess, but still rotating at the same. I guess Japan could rotate pre Worlds like after Naic when they, when they got like pitch black like right now. Well, like Japan doesn't have any tournaments between. Yeah. Japan Championships and then like after Worlds. Right. So they could rotate it. There's no reason they couldn't rotate at the same time because they also do this like half baked format thing anyway. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean, yeah, they would like rotate like what is it next week or the week after when Storm and Marauder. All the releases. Right? Yeah, we rotate one store member all the releases after Worlds. So. Yeah, I mean that would be. I would. I think that's ideal because then you get to see like the full arc of the decks kind of build up to the World Championships and then they rotate after that and then we start and if you'll like, it's like a fresh start going to the new season as well. Right. So everything is like, it's a conclusion, it's a better bookend to the season and. And those cards being played throughout the season and then it's a fresher start going into the new season for everyone playing the game. I wonder what Japan's reason is for rotating in the middle of the year like they do. They rotate that in January so it's the beginning of the year. So maybe that's. I guess so, right. New year. But it's like not the beginning of their season, right? Yeah, it's not. Yeah. Why wouldn't they rotate in the beginning of their season? What's their reasoning? It's a good point because their first tournament's already confirmed. September, I believe they already have a. A champion. I think their, their first tournament is two weeks after Worlds, I'm pretty sure. So, yeah, they usually have a Champions League like in the middle of September. So it makes sense that because like they don't schedule the World Championships. Right? Like, that is also weird. I feel like that, like, I don't know when, I mean, like it's so long ago now that that came about. But it's not their turn. It's not TPC's tournament, it's TPCI's tournament. Yeah, but why isn't it TPC's tournament is the question. Right? Like, I don't know, bro. Someone that. No one at TPC had the ambition to make a World Championships, I guess maybe like in 2004 and someone at TPCI did. Yeah. And they're like, all right, we're gonna do it then that might just be the reason. Yeah, a lot of things that probably won't happen or if they do happen, we're still feels like we're very far away from them happening. But yeah, I'm with you. It'd be cool to have that rotation happen. It'd be cool for sets to be roughly synced up as well. Instead we're about to get thrown into a fake format with an actual synced up set release. That just feels unnecessary. I don't even understand the reason for this. Like, I don't think collectors care. All it does is kind of screw over the players a little bit. I feel like more so than anything. I know. I know a lot of players probably don't care as well. Like it's a new set, the player basically small percentage. I don't think the collectors do the collectors care that they're synced up release for Japan. And I don't know if anyone who's like more in the collecting side of things, I guess let us know in the comment section down below. I would assume. No, but maybe I'm wrong. Was it you? Did you talk about this on the podcast? How like maybe now that the English set comes out the same day as Japan, they maybe won't have as big of a deal like problem with like foreigners scalping in Japan. I don't think so, but that might be. Might be a thing. Maybe saw that on Twitter or something like that where it's like, that could be a thing now where like if they're synced releases, I mean such a big part of the issue with the scalping in Japan is like fomo. Well, it's people getting them out of the country. Right. Exporting them to other parts. Want the new cards. But if they had English new cards, they'd be fine with that. But because they don't have English new cards, they want the Japan new cards instead. And those come out at different times. I mean that might be solved part of their supply issue for sure. Maybe that's one reason they did that with the 30th. The 30 year anniversary set specifically though is because it is going to be a more sought after, more scalped set than most. Right. It's gonna be nuts for the 25th anniversary when celebrations came out. I remember because it wasn't a very big set. I went out with the goal to try to like open and complete the set myself. Like I bought a bunch of the products, opened the packs and tried to like because there's only a 25 card set plus like a 25 card classic collection set. So I bought all the different products and tried to complete the set. And it wasn't super cheap, but it wasn't that hard to do. I did it with, you know, the products I was able to go find and buy at Target, Gamestop, whatever. And that was a fun time. There's no shot I'm gonna be able to do that for this set. One, I think the set is way bigger and two, you're not gonna be able to find any of the dang cards on the shelf in any store. Yeah. What is the. I actually forget what is the release date for it? It's in September. September 30th. So it might not even be legal. Oh, I mean 16th. 16th. 16th. Okay, so maybe it would the the first majors at the end of the month then it would be legal for it. I guess. Wait, if that's when the world does that mean it won't be legal for the first Japan Championships or Champions League? It their cards become legally immediately. So it would be. But they would get the cards that Friday which would be. No, it comes out on like a Tuesday or something. Oh, okay. Yeah. So yes, it would be legal. That seems like a problem. Yeah, that kind of sounds like a problem. Especially because they like some of the players have one less day because apparently Champions Leagues now are there's two day ones on on Friday and Saturday to both play into day two. So like the players playing on Friday have one less day. Yes. Wednesday, September 16th. So is the first Champions League is it the September 11th or is it September 18th? I think it's 18th. Okay. So you got two days, buddy. Yeah. Get your cards. You're playing on Saturday and you're hoping your homie bombs on Friday so you can use their muse or something. Bother. Are there Silviani X's? A true, true Silviani X's. Maybe put a mu in there as well. You might be a little bit too hype on that one. We were gonna look at some of the decks that have done well at battle or city leagues. Recent. Not city leagues. What are these called? Gym battles. Battles. What is that first deck? And you know, it's the Pixie. It's a pixie deck. You got Nukesy as Elf, Mesprit and Diancie, of course. How much does Mess red hit for? 160. I think that sounds right. And then this one does like, more damage for damage counters in play. Right. The Azelf. Something like that. Little toolboxy deck rolling here. Yeah, this 10 plus 10 more damage reach damage counter on all of your opponent's Pokemon. The Pixies. The best Pixie deck there ever was. Wasn't even that good. It was back when we had the. Yeah, the level X's. What if they'll ever give us a good pixie deck? Well, we did. We had. It was Reggie Gigas Level X, buddy. I mean, to use the Azov's ability. They were all in there, bud. Yeah, but that's not a Pixie deck, like, where it's like an attacker. They did. Those are like the most broken they've ever been. But they're all support Pokemon, basically. Yeah. There was a Mega Dark ride deck here I did see. Yeah, the Dark. There is like a lot of Dark supports. I don't know. That Mega Darkrai, like, as its own thing is good enough. Like I said, I do actually think there is merit here to like Zor in Zork decks, including a Mega Darkrai to just clear something right. As like the big attack. If they're like. Well, we saw Liam playing a Mega Absol Ex for basically that reason. Right. Where you could just clear whatever your opponent's active is. Yeah, we could see it. I don't think, like, this might just be aggressive enough to like, like your guy on the small stuff. Viper can ko like the. The fez and stuff. I mean, in Dark Rice. First attack Chaos Fez Chaos Meowth. Second attack 1. It kills everything. Like, if you're just always killing your opponent's active Pokemon, you're not put in a situation where it has to be a Mega to Ko like a Dreepy or like something small then I don't know. Maybe there is like enough here for a dark reduct to actually be good. To be honest, there could be enough. This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Listening to this podcast instead of doom scrolling Smart move. Another smart move getting help from one of State Farm's 19,000 local agents when you choose to bundle home and auto bundling. Just another way to save with the personal price plan. Prices are based on rating plans that vary by state. Coverage options are selected by the customer. Availability, amount of discounts and savings and eligibility vary by state. It could happen. It could happen. And then a couple Greninja decks. I'm trying to just find stuff that has new cards in it basically. And it's really just a lot of. Yeah, there we go. Hiding the sneak. We got that guy. That cruise like a spread build as well. It's got the 4. 4. There's four Del Mites alongside a 4. 4 poltergeist. Why not? I mean it just seems like if we're going in on the poltergeist and there's four banette. Oh, you need that to fuel the. The spirit tomb, right? Yeah, you gotta have it. It's just the one spirit tomb. Yeah. It just feels weird to have that many dumb eyes if you're going that. That heavily into the spread. Well, it's. Maybe you just have the option of either, I guess. Right. Going all in on Del Miser. All in on the spread. And then like you're never upset to just have like if you're going with Delmise, you're never upset to just have more of this stuff to be able to discard. Right? Sure. Sure. I could see it. And then a lot of stuff we're used to seeing here's like dark box decks that don't even have Darkrai in them or anything. Sharpedo Hydrapple still hanging around. Raging Balls. Hold on. A little sneak peek at what we may see at the world championships, Azul. What? Hydra Apple and Raging Bolts. Just these decks in general. Here's one though, that may make a big splash of worlds. The Gladion, the festival lead. We didn't really talk about this too much, I guess whenever we first talked about the set. But you've as someone Azul, who's been pretty hype on festival lead, how do you feel about its position with Gladion? Like how big of a difference in impact do you think this Gladion has on the deck? I think it makes a pretty big difference and it might actually Make. I mean the question is still like how much better is the Pulp matchup or how or is it even better? Because if it's not, then the decks is still just pretty bad. But as long as you can get the Pulp match up to like like a 45 win rate, maybe even 40, I think the Gladion like smooths over so many of their matchups to just like make them auto wins now basically. Also it means your your Sea King can do a lot more seeking has become quite a bit better because he can actually KO like a Dragon Bolt now with Bangle and Gladion. So I feel like that's a pretty big deal. Although trying to go back to back Gladions through a Sea King is pretty tough if you draw four extra cards so you didn't have to get out of your hand. But if you're content to not Gladion on the next turn, Sea King's pretty chill to use. Oh yeah, that's what I feel like it does more so for it. If you can somehow get the Pulp match up close, then Gladion makes it so you basically just don't lose to anything else. Because now that you like one hit ko even stuff like, like what was something actually that came up recently for me. I mean just being able to 1k on monkey dories. Like any deck that just. They can't just shove a monkey door in your face, you're gonna go knock out knockout and just like swing through. And that's like one thing Pulse can't do against you anymore as well. They can't leave a monkey dory in the active for you to only get one prize that turn so you can put a lot more pressure on them. Of course they want to be probably getting into Badoo anyways, but you know, you'll have more aggressive options to take, so it's a pretty big upgrade for the deck. I think we'll have to see how the the Pulp matchup pant pans out now if it's that much better or not. Well, Zool, I think that's all we've got to talk about this week. A little bit of a shorter episode for us, but hopefully very soon we'll have a long episode which has to do with season information being revealed. You got anything else you want to say, Azul, before we get out of here to the bonus episode? No, send us out. All right, well, thanks so much to everyone for listening. As always, we do appreciate the support. It does mean a bunch. And if you do enjoy, be sure to leave us a like review rating comment subscribe those things do help us out a bunch. Let us know you're enjoying the content. 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