Vector Sigma:

 Dan talks about his Top 16 finish at Gen Con and the importance of being able to trust your teammates to pick up the slack when real life has you busy before a big event! 

Guest writer Joel Grizzelle tells us about his deck and EIQ win from Texas with an interesting deck build that uses both a Micromaster and Battlemaster to great effect!  This deck shows how a concept can adapt over time and improve when given new tools to work with!

Vince hosts Scott while he goes over his Top Four deck profile: General Optimus Prime/Barrage/Firedrive

Hot off the heels of Wizards own Scott Van Essen loving the deck and featuring it on the main Facebook page, find it here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/transformers-trading-card-game/gen-con-deck-profile-with-scott-van-essen/2299433336845145/

We go card by card for both the Characters, Battle Deck, and the sideboard ran at Gen Con.  

This deck remains well positioned in the Energon Invitational Qualifier metagame, so give it a try!

Join Top Eight teammates Scott Landis (Top 4) and Vince DeGulis (Top 8) as they recap the general feeling of Gen Con and how the experience was for them.  Sure to be only the first time they discuss the exciting weekend!

Today Vince gives us his full Breakdown for his Top Eight Gen Con finishing deck: Four Wide Blaster! This deck utilizes the exciting new Autobot cassette strategy, full of nostalgia (how many of you ever even played a tape!?), fun, and effectiveness!  Highly suggest you take this deck for a spin, and make your own improvements for your local Energon Invitational qualifier metagames!  Note: Yes, we know they are not "spells"...old habits die hard I guess ;-) 

Vince gives a short synopsis of his self-reflection playing the Transformers TCG during the RotC meta and how it affected his mental toughness and desires to compete

Drew Nolosco, brand manager of the Transformers TCG, was kind enough to sit down with Scott and Vince of Tech Talk again before his trip to San Diego Comic Con!  We discuss all things Organized Play, and admittedly Drew dodged no difficult questions.  Make sure you check out this honest and exciting conversation! 

Note: there were some technical difficulties around 40-50 in that persisted due to sensitive Mic issues, sorry about that, we did not want to edit out any of the really great content!

Scott and Vince sit down EXCLUSIVELY with Drew Nolosco to discuss "Rise of the Combiners" as well as the exciting future of the Transformers TCG!

Join Scott and Vince as they go over the recently spoiled Soundwave vs. Blaster product, including its legality at the upcoming Gen Con open, and the SDCC Omnibots!

Vince takes a look back at the various iterations of Megatron that failed to make a splash on the competitive front, and looks forward to the new General Megatron who may succeed where others failed?!

Dan Arnold takes a look at using Siege  to update two of the major players in the RotC metagame:  Aerialbots and All Hail Optimus 

Scott and Vince discuss the Siege cards they are most excited about sleeving up and testing this coming weekend for the first playtesting bonanza to get ready for Gen Con!  

 Scott continues our Sealed Deck focused week with a Primer on the "rules" of Siege Sealed deck! 

You've read and watched us all week give advice on how to build decks from six packs of Siege, now try it with us!

Scott Landis introduces us to a new Micromaster who mirrors a very popular Orange Battle card!

Collaboration with Cameron of Arbitrary Hero!  

Scott and Cameron talk about some of the thoughts that need to go into building a competitive deck . They discuss overall strategies in deck building as well as some ways to assess the value behind character and battle cards!   No matter you experience level in deck building or playing in the Transformers TCG, everyone can get a lot of out this discussion...enjoy! 

Scott and Vince go over some Origins information and then deep dives into the remaining characters and battle cards revealed for Siege: War for Cybertron I (Two Part Podcast)

Part 2 of the latest Tech Talk, the only weekly Transformers TCG Podcast. Today we go over the plethora of Siege: War for Cybertron cards previewed over the last few weeks and how they may fit into existing strategies, or spawn their own new ones!

It's a long discussion since there were a lot of cards spoiled while we were on a one-week vacation hiatus, so enjoy!

Due to Scott's Vacation, we had many Siege: War for Cybertron to go over and some other news so we decided to split the podcast into two "more easily digestible podcasts"..for the first one we go over recent Transformers TCG news: the potential information dropping over the summer convention series, the RotC metagame, and some general Wave 3 info.

Stay tuned later in the week for part two where we go in depth over the new Siege Spoilers!

 Dan Arnold takes a look of how the powerful aggro-control Sentinels deck has evolved since the start of the RotC metagame..a must read to understand this powerful deck! 

Stay tuned daily for Wave 3 info: if it releases it will be here!

Scott and Vince break down the exciting "Organized Play" program with WPN in store support for events  and then start a lengthy discussion on the new set: Siege - War for Cybertron, including a deep dive into each card and card type spoiled so far!

Jon Palmer, inspired by last week's internal look at mistakes does a deeper dive on a Dreadwind deck he played competitively...poorly

Top 4 Decks are in Decklist Section!

 Dan sits down with two other members of the the Top Four from Showcase Comics and Games in Swathmore, PA (outside of Philadelphia), Steffon and Jon Palmer to discuss their tournament  day! 21 players, five rounds cut to a top four! Lots of Combiners in attendance! See how the top four shaped up and which decks ended up on top! 

This week Vince and Scott discuss the current state of the competitive metagame, the power and weaknesses of the various "Combat Tribes" (Melee, Ranged, Specialist) and then dive further into a discussion of a deck they intended to play over the weekend (which we did) but had little experience prior to this conversation in playing: Predacons.

Tech Talk: your only WEEKLY Transformers TCG Podcast!

We had to keep this deck under wraps until the metagame developed a bit, but the VectorSigma meta breaking Tank deck is finally ready to be revealed! Be careful though, if you play it in your local metas it may simply be too oppressive...Slammer is just too game breaking of a four drop!

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