Battle Frontier - A Pokemon TCG Podcast

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. Follow the show on socials: @BFPTCGPod @_Aaron_Curry @JohnOrgel.bsky.social

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. Apologies for audio only this week. Had some technical difficulties (that you may have heard mentioned in the episode)! Video will be back next week hopefully. Follow us on social...

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! Follow us on socials: @BFPTCHPod @...

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. Remember your Shaymins this weekend! Follow us on socials: @BFPTCGPod @_Aaron_Curry @JohnOrgel.bsky.social

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. As always, we want to hear from y...

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. Follow us on socials: @BFPTCGPod @_Aaro...

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. Follow us on socials: @BFPTCGPod @_Aaron_Cur...

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 he...

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. Follow the show on socials: @BFPTCGPod @_Aaron_Curry @JohnOrgel.bsky.social

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 pl...

Aaron and John are joined by Johnny Rabus to go over decks from the 2012 and 2013 seasons in an extended Time Capsule episode. HGSS – NVI Decks – Pokemon TCG Archive Johnny Rabus’ Cities and Regionals Run + A Look at Probopass/Garbodor — SixPrizes Darkrai Sableye by Jason Klaczynski – Limitless Plasma Kyurem by Simon Narode – Limitless Blastoise Keldeo by James Good – Limitless Plasma Kyurem by Jo...

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 sche...

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 ce...

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. Check out the VOD(s) of the Master's Cup over on LimitlessTCGs Youtube: https://ww...

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. @BFPTCGPod @_Aaron_Curry @JohnOrgel.bsky.social Check out the Master's Cup coverage...

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...

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. Follow us on socials: @BFPTCGPOD @_Aaron_Curry @johnpaulorgel @johnorgel.bsky.social @CurryTCG.bsky.social

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. Follow us on socials: @BFPTCGPod @_Aaron_Curry @JohnPaulOr...

This week we go over the Destined Rivals set list and give our opinion on the stand-out cards from the set, John talks about a retro deck with a similar strategy to Rocket's Mewtwo/Spidops, and Aaron attempts to stump John with some miscellaneous trivia during Blaine's Quiz Show. Follow us on socials: @BFPTCGPod @_Aaron_Curry @JohnPaulOrgel @JohnOrgel.bsky.social @CurryTCG.bsky.social

Aaron provides a short discussion on the evolving Pokemon Pocket metagame with the release of the new Celestial Guardians expansion before John attempts to thwart his attempts at widening the point gap during Blaine's Quiz Show. Then the guys check out the action that took place in Milwaukee over the weekend including a recap and the results of their predictions heading into the event. Follow us o...

This week, Aaron and John take a look at the results of the Seville SPE as well as a few select lists from the event and a couple of other major events around the globe from this past weekend. Blaine's Quiz Show returns as a palate cleanser before the guys dive into a discussion of what they expect to see success in Milwaukee this weekend. Follow us on socials: @BFPTCGPod @_Aaron_Curry @JohnPaulOr...

This week, John and Aaron review the results of Monterrey Regional Championship and go over a time capsule of a deck reminiscent of the deck played by reigning world champion, Fernando Cifuentes. Rounding out the episode, the guys talk about how they think the meta is developing and expectations from the events this weekend. As always, thank you for listening and be sure the follow the show, and h...

Aaron and John review the results of the Pokemon TCG Atlanta Regional Championship and give their thoughts on the calls for Budew to be banned. We take a trip back to 2010 to explore a deck that item locked better than Budew could ever hope to before getting into thoughts on how the meta will shape and evolve heading into Monterrey Regionals this weekend. Episodes are now available on YouTube as w...

Aaron and John drop a first for the show: a tier list of decks heading into Atlanta regionals this weekend. Even United Wings makes an appearance so stick around to find out how your favorite deck stacks up. Dragapult is a strong contender so John pulls out its predecessor in this week's Time Capsule segment. Get more plugged in to the Battle Frontier on socials: @BFPTCGPod @_Aaron_Curry @John...