Security Checkpoint
The Digimon Trading Card Game is a disease. Most of us are immune to it's tricks, but, some of us are begging for a cure. We, JB and Nolan, navigate what it's like to be infected by the gripping claws of the memory gauge, the evo system, and Marcus Damon. Some weeks we are really good at dealing with this plague and are ready to talk about every other tcg you've never heard of, and Goku. Let's talk cardboard baby
Episodes
42 episodes
Security Checkpoint 41: They Want to Kill my Kids, Jerry
It's a mess over here. AI wrote the cold open and we did a theatrical reading of it. Numeon kills my children and then me. I put Quantumon down for one second and now she's worse. So what's up with you, viewer? I heard you're playing the weird ...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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33:53
Security Checkpoint 40 - Lightning Rod of Hate (ft. Peter Franqui)
Holy shit, World Champion Peter Franqui is here!!! Pete takes us through his path to ruling the entire world and the good word of of never attacking your opponent! This podcast is so about the Digimon Trading Card Game right now. Pete gives us ...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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1:02:57
Security Checkpoint 39: Instant Transmission
hey how are y- SEC CON WINS WORLDS BABY USA USA USA WE'RE NUMBER ONE PETE NATION i'm fine thanks for asking. Let's go over the neatest Dragon Ball characters, falling out of love, dead mechanics, and killing your own Myotismon...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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34:04
Security Checkpoint 38: World's Tallest Greymon Enjoyer
What if this very moment is the beginning? What if your life has just started? What if you just kept evoing into agumon over and over? Is that the peak of Bandai's mountain? When I see the top, will I be happy? also: quantumon baby hell...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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33:22
Security Checkpoint 37: Rhymes with Wonton Pong
Did you figure out my rhyming puzzle? Here's a hint, it's the best god damn 6 in the game. She's SICK. Nolan is here to talk about his descent to madness that is making Quantumon work. JB is here to talk about the brrrrrrr shhhhh DING DING soun...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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33:48
Security Checkpoint 36: Please Don't Name it "Quantum Mechanics"
We're back from Nationals and one of us is so dang hype to build in this BT15 world!! Quantumon is HERE and you GOTTA hear about it. Please? Everyone keeps abandoning my games. We talk about what we're brewing, the state of deckbuilding, and sh...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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31:44
Security Checkpoint 35: Tournament Check Out (ft. Noah of Errata Sonata)
This one's a frankenstein of an episode.In Act I we see our heroes already at their lowest, scrambling for a lifeboat in the tumultuous sea of competition.In Act II, those heroes are struck down to clear the way for even greater heroes ...
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59:54
Security Checkpoint 34.5: Tournament Check In
This week is a halfsie, next week we'll post another! Okay? It's not weird. We've finally made decisions, we've finally done some testing. We're locked and loaded. Let the chips fall where they may, for luck belongs to those with h...
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31:20
Security Checkpoint 34: Mitamamon and You
The conclusion of the 2023 competitive season of the Digimon Trading Card Game is in fifteen days. We're both playing yellow probably! We both might be playing Venusmon! I'm so tired. We talk about what we're thinking for Nationals, the unforgi...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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58:20
Security Checkpoint 33: Five Nights at Fenriloogamon's
BT14 is now!! It's here!! There are purple puppies and new security control cards!! DIGIMON IS BACK. Or at least we've been playing it more recently. Lets talk about the newest regionals tops, the hottest secret discord takes, and a deep hatred...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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1:00:27
Security Checkpoint 32: Rectangles and Traitors
We're here this week to tell you that no matter what you do, BWG doesn't care. We go over some regionals, an announcement of announcement, and another in depth review of another random episode of yugioh. Kaiba can't keep getting away with...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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1:03:49
Security Checkpoint 31: Outraged and Deplaned
I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it!! Cards got restricted and I really liked some of them!!! NO ONE HAS A WORSE LIFE THAN ME. We talk about how to deal with anger, greymons, and The Boy Who Lived (tommy himi). After ou...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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49:38
Security Checkpoint 30: Baggage Claim
This time is different. How? Okay, you got me. It's mostly regular. We do some meditation on tournament play, dream up an alternate digimon format, and take a glimpse at the game's bright future in yellow/green level 6s. But then we talk ab...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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52:35
Security Checkpoint 29: Ragnarok
Odins breath is so close to being the best card okay dude holy hell uuuggghhhhhh. On this episode we talk about Digimon cards, reading them, and our deck choices for the recent Regionals tournaments. We also talk about Baldur's Gate and, just.....
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55:45
Security Checkpoint 28: He Was a Tamer Boi
Good Morning! We're back from nationals and the crippling grip of real life! Let's catch up on the news: Avril Lavigne is here now, motherfucker. I guess also nationals happened, Bandai has given us the same mulligan rights as One Piece, and AC...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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54:15
Security Checkpoint 27: Everyone Loves Deltamon (ft. Mtggirl)
Beckmon herself is here to talk nationals thoughts and the importance of casual play! JB and Nolan are also here to talk about the normal topics of a Digimon podcast: if dogs can have an existential crisis, is truly nothing holy? other ...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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1:05:50
Security Checkpoint 26: Everybody Hates Willis
Hey! How are you? We're back, sort of! We recorded this episode a few weeks ago (oops) so we go over some older news, talk about JB's terrible taste in movies, and question what archetypes are waiting to pounce as BT11 draws near. other...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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43:57
Security Checkpoint 25: Security Control Freaks
This episode is split into two parts. In the first part, we lament the slow start of the bt10 format. In the second, we do a little tournament report. JB turns to the dark side and plays Nolan's sec con list. We argue about that for a while.
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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58:22
Security Checkpoint 24: BT10 Forecast pt. 2
Hey, listen, we're friends right? You wouldn't hold our mistakes against us? There's a non zero percent of this episode where we don't read the text on our digimon cards. Just roll with it okay cool We haven't been playing a lot of digi...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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52:06
Security Checkpoint 23: BT10 Forecast pt. 1
They announced the delay the day after we recorded this. This happens every time.This episode we're starting our look ahead at the new archetypes introduced in the next set BT-10: Xros Encounter and make a guess as to how they'll fare a...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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1:14:17
Security Checkpoint 22: Starter Decks, Multi-Check Madness
Hey! The BT9 format marches forward. We look ahead at the new starter decks, question how to make a podcast, and make some mistakes along the way.Some stuff we need you to know in order to enjoy the first few minutes of the episode:
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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52:57
Security Checkpoint 21: Ban List, Store Champs, and Some Spoilers
We recorded in California, where the laws are different. But what we didn't expect is that the Digimon are different too! This episode we recap our runs at a store championship, go over the new ban lists and engage with the discourse surr...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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57:15
Security Checkpoint 20: GenCon Adventures (ft. Dan Vang)
GenCon is over, we didn't do great. But maybe the real nationals invite is the friends we made along the way? Probably not. But we did bring along one of those friends we made, so Dan Vang is here to talk with us about what we saw at GenCon!
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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58:56
Security Checkpoint 19: Please Check the Description
OKAY FULLY this episode starts out with a few uninterrupted minutes about the sexual activity of flies and that's kind of a lot. If you might not be cool with that you should jump to 3:20, it does not come up again. This episode we've g...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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54:16
Security Checkpoint 18: We've Made Some Mistakes (and a BT9 Pre-Release Look-Ahead)
The newest set is coming out soon, so it's a season of retrospection here at Security Checkpoint Studios. Specifically the things we got really wrong about the EX2 meta. And then we talk about what cards we want to play in our BT9 Pre-Release e...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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50:00