Memory Capsule - A Pokemon TCG Podcast
Welcome to the Memory Capsule Podcast, where we interview members of the Pokemon Trading Card Game community. Our goal is not just to focus on the current meta or the most recent tournament results, but to take a deep dive into the history of the TCG and its players with some laid-back conversation. Every episode we’ll learn how our guest got involved in the Pokemon TCG, and give them an opportunity to share their love of the game with our listeners.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 29
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
Fixing the Pokemon TCG's Tournament Structure
We have a special episode for our listeners! Kyle Sabelhaus, Ciaran Farah, and Mo Ideis joined Rafal to help diagnose the issues with the Pokemon TCG's tournament structure, how it could be improved,…
#28 - JW Kriewall
Today’s guest is JW Kriewall. While many of you may know him as a member of the Pokemon Trading Card Game's premier podcasting trio, JW is also a three-time Regional Champion, having taken the gold a…
#27 - Cyrus Davis
Today’s guest is Cyrus Davis. Cyrus is an incredibly talented player, who is perhaps best known for winning NAIC 2023 with Urshifu Inteleon. They also have several other incredible achievements, incl…
#26 - Rahul Reddy
Today’s guest is Rahul Reddy. Rahul is a player and content creator who has been playing the Pokemon TCG for over 10 years. Rahul has several incredible achievements as a player, including multiple I…
#25 - Kyle Sabelhaus
Today’s guest is Kyle Sabelhaus. Kyle is a veteran player who has seen success in the Pokemon TCG for two decades. Today he is best known as one of the incredibly talented members of the Pokemon TCG …
#24 - Lucas Xing
#23 - Toine Lay
Today’s guest is Toine Lay. While Toine may be best known in the Pokemon TCG community as the first Twitter that players go to check for translations of cards coming out in Japan, they are also a ver…
#22 - Aneil Saini
Today’s guest is Aneil Saini. Aneil has played the game on and off for over a decade, returning in the past few years without missing a step. Placing top 16 at two regionals with Mew Vmax as well as …
#21 - Alex Schemanske
#20 - Kevin Clemente
Today’s guest is Kevin Clemente, also known in the Pokemon community as Mellow_Magikarp. Kevin is an incredibly talented player, achieving a Worlds invite in 2019 - just his first season playing comp…
#19 - Mike Fouchet
#18 - Steffen Eriksen (Part 2)
Today’s guest is Steffen Eriksen. Steffen is a player from Denmark with almost 2 decades of Pokemon TCG experience, and he will be joining us for the next two episodes. He has multiple Regionals fini…
#17 - Steffen Eriksen (Part 1)
Today’s guest is Steffen Eriksen. Steffen is a player from Denmark with almost 2 decades of Pokemon TCG experience, and he will be joining us for the next two episodes. He has multiple Regionals fini…
#16 - Mateusz Laszkiewicz
Mateusz Laszkiewicz is a player from Poland who recently won the Stuttgart Regional Championship with an incredible innovative Palkia/Vikavolt deck. He has also had strong finishes throughout the pas…
#15 - Alessandro Cremascoli
Alessandro Cremascoli is a player from Italy who has has success in the Pokemon TCG for over 20 years. He is a multiple-time Regional Champion, Italian National Champion, and World's competitor. He h…
#14 - Mo Ideis
Today’s guest is Mo Ideis. Mo is a player from the Chicagoland area who is a member of the Nerd Rage Gaming Pokemon TCG team and is well on his way to his first Worlds invite. Mo achieved his first b…
#13 - Harrison Burch
Harrison is a worlds invitee who has recently become known as an expert on deck involving Arceus Vstar. Harrison has half a dozen day 2 finishes, playing both meta and innovative deck archetypes. He …
#12 - Zander Bennett
Today’s guest is Zander Bennett. Zander recently got top 4 at Ft Wayne Regionals and is on the cusp of locking up his Worlds invite for the year. Zander has over half a decade of success in the Pokem…
#11 - Christian Fontenot
Today’s guest is Christian Fontenot. Christian is a self-described Regi expert, a deck whose loss we will be mourning during our talk today. After getting top 64 at Indianapolis with Rapid Strike Mal…
#10 - Drew Allen
Today’s guest is Drew Allen. Drew is a player, streamer, Youtuber, and overall expert on the history of the Pokemon TCG. He is the host of the Snowpoint Cast, a Youtube channel dedicated to showcasin…