June ’26 at The Gathering Place

Product Release(s) in June: MTG UB: Marvel Superheroes, One Piece TCG OP-16

D&D Learn to Play

Wednesday, June 3, 6:00 p.m.

The first Wednesday of each month, TGP’s own Ben Creed (a friendly face known for comedy, trivia, and TCG excellence in both One Piece and MTG) will be your guide as you take your first steps into the Forgotten Realms.

The Learn to Play session starts at 6:00 p.m. and players don’t have to provide anything but themselves. Well, themselves and also a general openness, a will to learn and the expectation that role playing might feel a little goofy at first — but, the knowledge that the more you lean into it the more fun you’ll have. If you’ve always been D&D curious, if you’ve seen it portrayed in popular media, if you’ve been watching actual play shows or listening to podcasts like Dimension 20 or Critical Role, this is your opportunity to start your own story!

Girlypop Magic Commander Night

Thursday, June 4, 6:00 p.m.

We are honored to be hosting local femme-forward all-stars Girlypop Magic the first Thursday of each month at The Gathering Place! Join us for a free and fun night of MTG Commander-focused events for femme, non-binary, and gender expansive folks!

GPM comes by TGP every month, so come back the first Thursday and play some fun games with some truly excellent people!

Check out the Girly Pop Magic page(s) for all the details and some truly wonderful posts

cEDH Monthly Dual Land Tournament

Saturday, June 6, 12:00 p.m.

Each month, The Gathering Place holds a CEDH tournament where the prize is based on attendance, and every entrant has a chance to battle it out for a Dual Land straight out of the TGP display case!

This month’s is on Saturday, June 6, starting at noon.

$30 buy in, Dual Land goes to first place, payout prizing to Top 4, and other / additional prizing based on attendance. Come battle it out for Duals, for glory, for love of the game!

Full proxy is permitted, all proxies must be clearly representative of the intended card and contain all information the official printing does in an easy-to-identify fashion.

Event registration is run through TopDeck. (https://topdeck.gg/thegatheringplace)

One Piece OP-16 Prerelease Event

Sunday, June 7, 1:00 p.m.

The Time of Battle is RIGHT NOW, One Piece TCG players! OP-16 prerelease is the new set, based on the Paramount War, and things are heating up with new Leaders, new treatments, and a boatload more from One Piece’s trading card game component.

Entry is $30 per player, TGP will have promos and Bandai-provided prizing as per usual. This event is capped at 32, so snag those preregistrations sooner rather than later!

Event Details + Registration

MTG Vintage Cash Tournament (Monthly MTG Series)

Saturday, June 13, 12:00 p.m.

The Gathering Place’s monthly cash tournament series continues in June with another Vintage Cash tourney!

Vintage is powerful, expansive and a popular way to play competitive MTG! Every card, every set, spanning decades of Magic and shaped by the future of the game itself.

At TGP, Vintage tournament decks are full throttle, and full proxy is permitted. All proxies must be clearly identifiable across the table and representative of actual MTG cards.

Entry is $30 per player to clash for cash in Magic’s most expansive and highest power format, and that entry contributes to the prize pool, along with bonus prizes added to the pot by TGP itself. For this month’s Vintage tournament? We’ve got a Demonic Tutor in the pool!

Every card, every era, possibilities and combos abound!

Event Details + Registration

MTG Five-Color Pride Tournament

Sunday, June 14, 12:00 p.m.

All decks have a mandatory mana base of five colors. All Legendary creatures and Commander-eligible cards have Partner, but your deck MUST include all five colors! $10 entry per player, half of that goes straight to charity. We’ll have raffles and all kinds of fun stuff all day long. All game changers are banned!

Event Details + Registration

MTG Universes Beyond: Marvel Superheroes Prerelease Weekend

Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 21

The next entry in Magic’s expansive Multiverse collides with another setting that’s continually racking up the cosmic scoreboard: Marvel Comics! We’ve seen glimpses of what’s coming in June through Secret Lair releases and Spider-Man’s MTG debut, and the release of Marvel Superheroes in MTG promises to be another set going bigger!

Marvel Superheroes sealed product will be available for purchase during prerelease weekend at The Gathering Place, no preorders for sealed product or singles are being taken at TGP.

Friday

2:30 p.m. Prerelease Sealed
7:00 p.m. FNM Prerelease Sealed

Saturday

12:00 p.m. Prerelease Sealed
4:00 p.m. Prerelease Sealed

Sunday

12:00 p.m. Prerelease Sealed 2HG

MTG Pauper Cash Tournament (MTGPunks Series)

Saturday, June 27, 12:00 p.m.

Pauper is the “oops! all commons!” format of MTG where low-rarity cards produce some interesting, fun, shockingly complex gameplay.

While TGP is proxy-friendly in a great many cases, all cards played in Pauper tournaments must be the real deal.

Entry per player is $30, entry goes back to the prize pool, and the MTGPunks tournament series continues with additional bonus prizing straight from the Dungeon for each tournament! For this month’s Pauper tournament, that prize is an especially pretty Dom! art Counterspell, the DCI Legend Membership printing!

Event Details + Registration

Riftbound Summoner’s Skirmish

Sunday, June 28, 1:00 p.m.

Riftbound continues to be a hit at TGP and beyond, and we’ll be closing out May with another Summoner’s Skirmish!

This tournament will be run at a competitive rules enforcement level. 32 player maximum, $20 entry per player, Swiss rounds followed by a cut to top. If you’ve ever wanted to give serious competitive Riftbound play a shot, now’s your chance!

Event Details + Registration

Castaway Commander League: Week One

Tuesday, June 30 – Saturday, August 22

Last year, we laid down a solid foundation – Commander League: Summer Session was a surprise smash hit, and became the inspiration for so much more we’ve been doing at The Gathering Place since.

To that end, for 2026, we are delighted to introduce something entirely new for the Summer League at TGP: Castaway League.

If you’d like to know everything there is to know about Castaway League at TGP, here’s our post with details:

https://gatheringplacegames.com/2024/05/14/castaway-league-26-at-the-gathering-place/

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MTG Drafts at TGP in 2026

The Gathering Place is changing how we run our weekly Draft events for Magic: The Gathering starting in June of 2026, and we’re excited to outline the roll out of our new Draft plans for any established enjoyers of Limited play and any newer folks who’d like to give cracking packs and playing cards a go.

Friday Night Magic is a long-standing tradition in the MTG community, and here at TGP we want to do our best to continue cultivating a strong Magic community. Part of that is making sure Friday Night Magic (FNM) is a big deal with a firm focus on what’s currently happening in the game.

Starting in June, Friday Night Magic Drafts will be whatever we have in stock that’s the newest Standard set in MTG. Price for entry will reflect that, as will pack prizing and the promos provided by Wizards. We’re going to kick FNM firmly into gear when it comes to running events live and direct with what’s fresh off the presses.

Of course, The Gathering Place doesn’t just run MTG Draft events on Fridays — we’ve been hosting Sunday Draft events for quite a while! Since Fridays are now exclusively for what’s new, hot and happening with MTG we’ve opened up some space for fun stuff on Sundays! To prove the point, here’s what we’re drafting in June on Sundays:

LOTR / Week 1 – $50 , 24 player cap

Conspiracy: Take The Crown / Week 2 – $35, 24 player cap

Ikoria / Week 3 – $35, no cap

Mystery Booster / Week 4 – $55, 16 player cap

Prizing for these TGP Draft events on Sundays will also be handled differently. Instead of packs, prizing will be given in the form of store credit. $10 per win for anyone with a winning record across three Swiss rounds, with a Foil Promo Pack for the top / undefeated player.

You’ll see signups for these Sunday MTG Drafts posted online over on the preregistration section of the TGP Online Shop soon. Thanks for reading, and we look forward to hosting some great Draft tournaments in the immediate future!

COMMANDERJAM 2026 (Saturday, May 16)

(this post has been edited from its original version, since Commanderjam is happening NOW. if you’d like to take a look at the TGP Parking Guide, it’s right here.)

The second annual Commanderjam is set to include a Commander Legends draft, special pods for Two-Headed Giant EDH as well as a return of Planechase, a huge convention table setup run by none other than the Mohawk Man himself, artists and friends of the shop, door prizes all day, Alpha Pie pizza slinging slices from the downstairs service window, another round of deckbuilding workshops — it’s all here, it’s all happening, it’s all COMMANDERJAM and it’s on Saturday, May 16!

We’ve got a luxury variant of the Magic Hole, we’ll have discounts and deals all day long in celebration of Magic’s most popular format, there’s a lot happening in-store all day long!

Signup sheets for each event will be posted at the bar, all events are first-come, first served. We’ll be firing pods as we get four players to play, so don’t worry too much about timing!

Folks who filled out the Commanderjam Form prior to the event will already be listed / included on each sheet.

Most events don’t have a cap involved! It’s more about podding players together, and we’ve got a bunch of table space and the entire day reserved for nothing but MTG. We’re trying to make as much space as possible for folks to play Magic’s most popular format, all day!

Here’s a the schedule of events:

11:00 a.m. — TGP opens

12:00 p.m. — Commander Legends Commander Draft event (Commander Draft guidelines according to WotC)

$55 entry, best of 1, single elimination. Event prizing to pods, additional prizing to winners + Top. Registration for the event is on TopDeck, right here!

2:00 p.m. — 2HG and Planechase pods in-person signups open, first door prize drawings of the day!

 2:30 p.m. — 2HG and Planechase pods formally fire

3:00 p.m. — Door prize drawings continue for everyone in-store, Commander pods form + fire as table space allows with special Commanderjam prize support. For folks interested in playing unaltered preconstructed decks and exhibition cEDH games, we’ll pair you up accordingly!

Space on Commanderjam Saturday might be a little tougher to come by, and TGP staff are going to prioritize finding seating for groups playing MTG. We’re going to make sure there’s some additional space outside on the Alpha Pie patio for anyone who’d like to hang outdoors and play MTG al fresco, as well!

4:00 p.m. — Deckbuilding Workshop sessions with Preston “Ironworks” Stevenson + friends open on a first-come, first-served basis. Possible guest-star inclusions for cEDH learn-to-play and other topics!

For any Alpha Pie aficionados, a note from the Pizza Lord himself:

tomorrow, during Commanderjam, Alpha Pie will be offering a special slice: ExtraExtraExtra Pep (it’s more pepperoni than you bargained for, I’m trying to tell you) also, a limited edition brand new hot sauce, straight out the kitchen

Sunday Community Dinner Series Continues: Free Food This Sunday, 12/7, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.