TGP Dispatch: 7/15/25
This week at The Gathering Place, we’re hosting our monthly Mini Paint Night, an MTG Old School Thursday, a celebration of all things Pokémon on Saturday, a clash for cash starring some ancient Magic: The Gathering history, a Digimon TCG prerelease and the second tournament for Commander League’s Summer Session (can you believe it’s Week 7 already?)!
(all that in addition to our usual roster of events, conveniently located and listed on our full weekly/monthly calendar – and now featured in a ‘highlights’ section directly on the soon-to-be-overhauled event page on the TGP website!)
Here’s some event details, taken straight from the calendar:
MTG THEME DECK CASH CLASH, 12:00 pm, Saturday 7/19
EVENT CANCELLED
While combing through the treasure troves in the TGP basement, crawling the depths of the Card Dungeon, we found a box of some classic, vintage, aged-like-fine-wine MTG Theme Decks! If you’ve got fond memories of what Magic once was, nostalgia for when precon product was this weird, a curiosity to see what all the fuss was about back in the earlier days of the world’s most popular TCG — this is a great opportunity to play in a fun, environment!
Here’s the tournament details:
$40 entry, you receive a random, sealed 60-card theme deck. 16 player capacity, 4 rounds, payout to top 4, 50 minute rounds, best 2 of 3
Here’s a link to sign up for the Theme Deck Cash Clash!
EVENT CANCELLED
Pokéfest, 3:00 pm, Saturday 7/19
A few weeks back, The Gathering Place hosted a small event focused on meeting up, trading cards, and potentially jamming a couple Pokémon games. We want to continue to turn up that dial, so we’re holding another fun, casual, friendly day of Pokémon-centric stuff!
What’s special this time? Glad you asked!
We’ve put together a display, similar to the ones we make full of Magic cards for conventions, of nothing but super cool Pokémon cards! We’ll have all those illustrations, holos, rarities and more neat stuff upstairs and available for perusal and purchase. We’ll be putting aside space specifically for folks to talk, trade and play Pokémon AND we’ve lined up a friend of the store to come by with a custom-built Pokémon Cube for up to 8 players to draft! Here’s the details on the Cube which you should totally check out because it looks like it RULES.
Here’s a link to sign up to play the PokéCube!
Digimon BT-22, Cyber Eden Prerelease, 1:00 pm, Sunday 7/20
$30 entry gets you a slot in the digital world, six packs to play a prerelease with prizing and promos based on attendance!
COMMANDER LEAGUE SUMMER SESSION: TOURNAMENT 2, 3:00 pm, Sunday 7/20
The second in the series, smack dab in the middle of the Summer Session, it’s Tournament 2/II/Two! All Commander League players are cordially invited to battle it out once again, to continue field testing decks and strats in a competitive environment, all on the road to TGP’s final Summer Session Showdown.
We’ve got prizes for winners, raffles throughout the event, and entry was already covered when you joined League! So, we’ll see you there!
(here’s the link to the tournament signup)
That’s a quick roundup of what’s coming in hot this week! Other items of note, all the cases have been restocked with some fresh inventory, the Spicy Foils box is refreshed, and the air conditioning is FIXED and we are STOKED. See you around, have a great rest of your week!
