Perfect Guard Podcast: Recent Episodes
Cole Herman-McCune
A weekly (normally) competitive card game podcast, focusing mostly on Flesh and Blood TCG and Pokemon TCG. Co-hosts Cole and Andy provide their new card "hot or not" takes, meta observations, listener submitted questions/decklists and more!
Possibly our worst audio ever! Will and Cole discuss recent One Piece TCG meta changes and top decks while Alan questions what he is doing on the podcast. Alan boasts about winning the X-Wing world championships. We enter the dungeon with Carl and Donut. Also, escrow talk!Join the Ban Hammer Games Discord for more book discussions! https://discord.gg/xxdGdGXE
Cole talks about his adventures at Gen Con, Will talks about One Piece, and Alan talks about his toy soldier collection. Then everyone talks about American Gods. Trigger warning if Neil Gaiman gives you the ick.
One Piece regrets. Battletech regrets. Reading books - no regrets. We discuss weird gaming stuff and then go deep into Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Is it a haunted house story? Is it a witchcraft story? Is it just about how people can be mean?
We're back at it again with the listener book selection The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim. We also discuss the usual TCG and miniatures and life stuff.
New Premium Vanguard ban list! Much needed reprints (lots of the most used dual nation cards)! And then - book club discussion of why do cis hetero white men have to suck all the time and cause more problems than they solve aka Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.
Will, Cole, and Alan are back to trash talk TCGs and then get into our book club discussion for March - The Martian by Andy Weir. This is a long episode because we had a lot to say both about TCGs and the book - but none of it is actually worth listening to.
Will, Alan, and Cole discuss new Vanguard card reveals, Alpha Clash, Beyblade, Flesh and Blood, but no Magic the Gathering. Maybe some Ashes. Books too but NO MOVIES. Oh, Elestrals and One Piece but NO DIGIMON.
Cole, Alan, and Will Discuss Transformers One, Scythe, 1984, 1Q84, Cardfight!! Vanguard, Alpha Clash, Flesh and Blood, and Best Buy.
Alan, Cole, and Will really missed recording together so decided to sit down and talk for a few hours. Yes, they DO talk about Cardfight!! Vanguard, amongst other things.
PLEASE LISTEN TO THE VERY END!! This week, Cole and Andy are back, after the unexpected hiatus, to talk about how they did in the ProQuests they played in!! There is also a very important announcement at the end of the program!
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This week, Cole and Andy are back to chat about the first week ProQuest results for Flesh and Blood! Why is "Bravo, Star of the Show" sweeping the competition?? We discuss this and more this week!!
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This week, Cole and Andy are back to talk about the highly anticipated new Pokemon set, Brilliant Stars! This set has a lot of gems, and a sweet new mechanic called "VSTAR Pokemon"!
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This week Cole and Andy are back to go over what is happening at these SCG Cons and why you should be excited to play in them if you play Flesh and Blood!
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This week, Cole and Andy are back to gush about the new Everfest set for Flesh and Blood! There area a lot of great cards in this set, and we basically go over them all!
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This week, Cole sits down and talks to our buddy Simon about some alternate Pokemon TCG formats, like GLC (Gym Leader Challenge) and a couple Retro formats!
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This week, Cole sits down and talks to our buddy Ed the Crimson about how we both did that weekend! One of us did pretty well, one of us not so well!
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Now that we have our feet wet in the Flesh and Blood basics, Cole and Andy take a little bit of a dive into Classic Constructed format and learn how to convert our Blitz format decks into CC versions!
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Cole and Andy are back, finally, and talking about some Vanguard!! This week is Probably the last time we talk about Vanguard, and what a note to end it on, Grade 4s in Standard! But.....why though.....?
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This week Cole and Andy answer some burning questions by our listeners, such as is "mayonnaise and instrument?"
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This week is a huge treat! Cole and Andy are joined by their friend Kyle to really delve into why deck building in MtG is so unique and sometimes difficult to comprehend! We also go over the evolution of Dredge in Modern!
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It's Flesh and Blood week!! This week Cole, and Andy are joined by a local friend Justin to talk about Flesh and Blood. Unfortunately not so much on the deck building, so we'll have to come back to this.
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This is the second part of the Vanguard Deck Building episode, and this week Cole, Andy, and Luke continue to discuss deck building, but in a different way.
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This week Cole and Andy are joined by their buddy Luke to actually build a Vanguard deck LIVE on air!
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Cole and Andy are back this week to talk Pokemon TCG with out buddy and resident Pokemon Judge Simon! We talk about the 2 Big tournaments that happened over the weekend and also a little bit of a deep dive on Meta and deck building decisions!
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This is the first in a new series on how to build a deck! We cover 4 games (Flesh and Blood, Pokemon, Magic, and Vanguard) and break down the 3 basic deck building criteria categories for each game.
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