Ancient Wisdom: A Pokemon Podcast: Recent Episodes
Corey Rausch
DJ Keener and Corey Rausch get together to talk about the latest news and trends in the Pokémon TCG.
DJ and Corey dive DEEP into spreadsheet talk as they continue to evaluate the Stellar Crown meta going into Dortmund and Joinville.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the results of Baltimore and how their test of Stellar Crown has progressed.
DJ and Corey are back to preview the first regional of the season while also discussing their continued testing of the Stellar Crown format. Also, this week's Pokemon Trivia of the Week is one of Corey's favorite VGC picks.
Corey and DJ ramble about the current state of the Shrouded Fable format while looking ahead to next week's new set. They also debut a new podcast segment!
Corey and DJ are back to do their favorite thing: review new cards! Stellar Crown is almost here and the boys are excited for the changes it brings.
DJ and Corey are back to recap the results and controversies of the 2024 Pokemon World Championships.
Corey and DJ are back to talk about all of the best decks ahead of the 2024 World Championships.
Corey is back for a solo venture. After discussing his recent League Challenge win he dives deep into rambling about the new miniset Shrouded Fables.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss a tier list that got the community talking. What are some of the best cards of all time? What is good for the game, and what is bad for the game? And do people just have to get over cards being good?
After two weeks unintentionally off, Corey and DJ are back to discuss the drama. While the focus is on the announcement of the changes on how to qualify for Worlds, it boils down to what is wrong with people on Pokémon Twitter. Then, they dive into Base-Fossil format and the Pokémon TCG Gameboy game.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss their year in review as well as the best decks, events, and players of the season.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss an interesting NAIC. How wrong were we? Did we get anything right?
Recorded the first day of the event, Corey and DJ are back to discuss the Japan Championships and preview NAIC while it is happening.
Corey and DJ are back to look at the first few weeks of online Twilight Masquerade play heading into the Japan Championships.
DJ and Corey are back to briefly discuss the results of Stockholm and Puerto Rico before diving deep on the Twilight Masquerade expansion.
Corey and DJ are back to quickly discuss one of the most bizarre North American top cuts in recent memory.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss São Paulo Regionals and Charizard’s continued dominance. Will anything change this weekend in Indianapolis?
DJ and Corey are back. They cover EUIC, Orlando Regionals, Perth Regionals, and Singapore Regionals. DJ details his run at Orlando and Corey explains his disappointing league challenge. They wrap the week by previewing São Paulo
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Corey and DJ are back to catch on the online data as they finally prepare for EUIC weekend.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the Vancouver Regionals and dive deep into the first week of Temporal Forces online data.
Corey and DJ are back to catch up. They cover the Brazilian Regional event and look to Vancouver this weekend as the format wraps up. In that vein, the boys go over some of the most impactful cards rotating.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the Utrecht Special Event before diving into a weekly City League update.
Corey and DJ are back to recap the first major post rotation event in Japan. Lugia and Arceus came out on top, but what about the rest?
Corey and DJ are back to discuss a bizarre Dortmund Regional Championship. Gholdengo AND Chien Pao in the finals feels strange. How did this happen?
Corey and DJ are back from their first event of the year. They go over their results with Kyogre, the tournament overall, and touch briefly on the other events of the weekend. Then they quickly touch on the new cards in Paldean Fates as a way to preview Dortmund this weekend.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the results of the Liverpool Regionals and dive deep into what it means for the event they will be attending and previewing: Knoxville.
Corey and DJ are back after a week off to recap Charlotte Regionals. Tina wins again, what is the world coming to?
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the results of the Portland
Regional Championship. They finally have to acknowledge Giratina VStar is good.
After the holiday break, Corey and DJ are back to go over the results from Kyoto to preview the Portland Regional Championships.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss an interesting top 8 cut at the largest regional event of all time!
After a two week hiatus involving sickness and a burning laptop, DJ and Corey are back. The duo goes over the international results before trying to figure out what this means for the San Antonio Regional Championship.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the surprising results of LAIC. Entei and Miraidon in the Finals? Roaring Moon flopped? So much to discuss this week.
Corey and DJ are back to go over their spreadsheet for the 2023 LAIC. Is it block time?
Corey and DJ are back to talk about their first-week testing Paradox Rift. This is all about what has stood out in the first week: the good, the bad, and the block.
Corey and DJ are back to quickly tie up Toronto Regionals/151 Format before doing a deep dive on everything Paradox Rift.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the results of Lille and preview Toronto as the 151 format winds to a close.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss Sacramento Regionals being swarmed by Colorless Lugia. How did this happen and how will this affect Lille Regionals?
DJ and Corey are back in the midst of a busy regional month to cover the results to predict how one will mold the next. With such a quick turnaround will the lack of Lugia/Charizard change things? Will LZ Kyogre continue to dominate?
DJ and Corey are back to preview Peoria Regionals. They look at the results of the Yokohoma Championship and online events to try to predict the way the 151 meta will continue to adapt. Then, they make predictions sure to go wrong.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the final two regionals in the Obsidian Flames format to determine how Charizard is growing as a strategy and what to look forward to with the 151 format.
Corey and DJ are back to review the Pokemon 151 set. Mew is the the talk of the times, but what other cards are the guys pondering a new format dawns? They also briefly touch on the results of the Barcelona SPE.
Corey and DJ are back to do one of their favorite things: talk about when they were right. The cast's favorite deck took down Pittsburgh Regionals. However, there was still plenty more to discuss, including the exploding popularity of Miraidon ex and the never-ending complaints of the TCG community.
Corey and DJ are back to make their final predictions for the first regional championship of 2024 season. What will win? What will top? Is Charizard ex good?
Corey and DJ are back after playing some Obsidian Flames decks in person. Between that and updated meta data, they decide it is time to collect their thoughts on the top decks in the format before the season starts in earnest.
Corey and DJ are back to talk about the new breakout decks from Obsidian Flames, namely Charizard ex. What does the deck look like with the set only being out for a week?
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the results of the 2023 TCG World Championship. From the highlights to the missed predictions, there was plenty to discuss.
Corey and DJ are back to give final thoughts and predictions hours before Worlds 2023. What will win? What will top cut? What will be the Worlds 2023 collectors decks? All this and much more.
Corey and DJ are back in theory talking about the worlds meta. They touch on Arceus, Giratina, and plenty of other things in a free-flowing conversation.
DJ and Corey are back to review their favorite cards from Obsidian Flames. While the most sought-after card is already well-known, the set offers plenty of other gems to pursue!
Corey and DJ look at the results of the Late Night Invitational and ponder a question they have put off for far too long: Is Arceus VSTAR just better than they give it credit for?
Corey and DJ were at the North American International Championship. They go over their tournament run as well as the overall event results.
Corey and DJ are back with their closing thoughts heading into NAIC. The boys have landed on Lugia VSTAR. What does their final meta-breakdown and predictions look like?
Corey and DJ are back to give their updated thoughts on testing the NAIC format and how things are starting to solidify going into the biggest tournament of their year.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the evolving metagame of Paldea Evolved. Chien-Pao continues to rise? Is Colorless Lugia the new way? Can anything beat Gardevoir? Have we been too hard on Lost Box?
DJ and Corey are back to go over the regional results from the final weekend before Paldea Evolved hits shelves. Then they dive into the major Japanese and Taiwanese tournaments to preview the format ahead.
Corey and DJ preview Paldea Evolved in the only way they know how: having more than 20 cards on their top 10 lists. With so many cool techs, new strategies, and staple cards, there is plenty to look forward to.
DJ and Corey are back to Fusion Mew, of all things, taking down both regional championships of the weekend. They also go over the results overall and look at what they can glean as the format progresses.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the meta shifts heading into the Hartford Regional Championship. How good is Arc Tina? Is Lost Box still the deck to beat? Will Lugia return to conquer? All this and more this week.
Corey and DJ are back to recap the results of Portland, Singapore and Sao Paolo Regional championships. Arceus VSTAR/Giratina VSTAR ended up winning two out of the three so deserves more attention. They also go over the missing Gardevoir ex, the Lost Box return and much more.
Corey and DJ jump back in to discuss how the meta continues to develop and what to expect to see at the Portland Regional Championships. They discuss the waning Lugia presence, where Gardevoir and Lost Box go from here, and more.
DJ and Corey dive deep as the format progresses following EUIC. The pair go over recent online events and check in on SableZard, Turbo Lost Box, Kyogre, Giratina and Goodra.
Corey and DJ pat themselves on the back for having a good set of predictions going into EUIC and discuss the results overall. Then they look at how the online metagame has developed since.
Corey and DJ preview EUIC together. Then, on the back end, Corey brings on Demetris Eaton (@DemiPTCG) and Shai Burton (@BurtsPTCG) for the first-ever guest spot to preview EUIC from a more local perspective.
Corey and DJ go over the initial impressions after playing online with Scarlet Violet and rotation for a week. They also go over the major online event results to get caught up on the new format.
Corey and DJ look at the most recent events overseas in the initial Scarlet and Violet format. They get to go over everything involved in the new decks like Gardevoir ex, Single Strike Lugia, various Lost Box decks and more.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the never-ending standard format that came to Utrecht before getting a taste of the future by looking at the Champions League Aichi results.
Corey and DJ discuss the results of the Vancouver and Natal Regional Championships. Then, looking ahead to the start of pre-releases, they go over their favorite cards in the new set.
Corey and DJ are back to discuss the top cut of Perth Regional Championships before going over their lists of the biggest cards to miss from the upcoming rotation.
After a corrupted file caused the boys to miss a week, Corey and DJ are back to go over all the results from OCIC and look ahead to Knoxville Regionals.
DJ flies solo to recap the top-performing decks from the Orlando Regional Championships.
DJ and Corey look into what little changes Crown Zenith has brought to the meta before making their predictions for the upcoming Orlando Regional Championship.
DJ and Corey go over their initial takeaways from a week of getting to mess around with the new Crown Zenith cards online. Then, they discuss the top 8 results of the Liverpool Regional Championships.
Corey and DJ preview their favorite new cards coming in the Crown Zenith expansion. They then make their predictions for the Liverpool Regional Championship.
Corey and DJ get back together to discuss the emergence of Vikavolt, Rayquaza Lost Box, Aerodactyl Mew and more at San Diego regionals.
Corey and DJ dive deep on the meme that is Lugia/Gengar after Corey fell into playing it at locals. Then, both share what they would play at San Diego this weekend and what they think the top 8 will look like.
Corey and DJ are back to put a bow on the online scene, the tournament scene and the year that was 2022.
Corey and DJ go over the results of the Arlington Regional Championship, including Lugia's return to dominance, VikaDactyl debut, and where is Mew?
Corey and DJ catch up on a quiet few weeks in terms of online events and make their predictions for the looming Arlington Regional Championship.
Corey and DJ cover everything from Toronto, Stuttgart, and Brisbane regionals. New decks. Corey's flops. DJ making day 2. Surprises abound.
Corey and DJ react to the dominance of Lugia at LAIC before looking ahead to their first regional of the season.
Corey goes solo and previews the upcoming Latin American International Championship. He reviews the meta before diving deep into his top 10 plays for the weekend.
Corey and Dave touch on Warsaw regionals and the news. Also, they dive deep into their initial week of testing Lugia VSTAR against the gauntlet.
DJ and Corey convene to say goodbye to SSH-LOR format by previewing the upcoming Warsaw Regional Championships.
DJ and Corey look back at the online week that was before diving deep into their top 10 cards in the upcoming Silver Tempest expansion.
Corey and DJ get the show started by introducing themselves, discussing the news around the game, Lille, the online scene, and more.