TGP Dispatch: 3/3/26
This week at TGP, we’re saying goodbye to February, hello to March — and, soon, hello to spring in NC! There’s a lot on the calendar for this month, and we’ve already made a full post about it.
Click Here for the TGP March Event Guide
The finale tournament for our Beginner-Friendly Commander League is this upcoming Saturday, but there’s a slight amount of crossover as we kick off the Chaos League! Just like March events, there’s a full post about that here on the site, too:
Click Here for the MTG Chaos Commander League Details
In terms of the immediate, this week specifically, we’re hosting three other banner items: our revamped D&D Learn to Play session on Wednesday, Girlypop Commander Night on Thursday, and the first of two upcoming RCQ tournaments on Sunday. Here’s the details for each:
D&D Learn to Play
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, March 5, starting at 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!
MTG RCQ Lorwyn Sealed
Sunday, March 8 @ 11:30 a.m.
Details: $55 entry for each player, One-Slot MTG Sealed RCQ. Decklist required, rounds based on attendance. This is competitive Magic, and the potential first step on a path to the Pro Tour. Players will be expected to conduct themselves accordingly. Expect a cut to Top 8 in terms of scheduling / time.
If that text looks familiar, it’s because it’s taken directly from the always-updated TGP Events Page! You can check in over there any ol’ time for what’s happening in the shop, and it’s got a link to our Google Sheet monthly calendar for anyone who’d like a better sense of the “when” in terms of events.
For anyone and everyone who came out to hang during TMNT Prerelease Weekend, know that you’re welcome in our sewers anytime. We had some particularly notable pack-opens in the shop, prerelease sealed is always a good time, we gave away a bunch of free pizza slices as folks purchased TMNT boxes, and it is my solemn duty to inform you the “TMNT style” Alpha Pie is officially retired (for now). It was a celebration, a limited time offer, and we’re glad y’all enjoyed it!
We’ve always got new things happening in the shop, from events to homegrown lil’ packs, products and boxes. This past week, the “Trash Can Boosters” have been a huge hit. If you were on the fence about grabbing one, know they might be gone soon.
We’ve got plenty of other in-store stuff to look through, new inventory on the website and in the cases, and if you want to see something specific — all you gotta do is ask.
Feels wrong to end a weekly announcement post without plugging the TGP Discord server, so we’ll see you over there. It’s still the #1 spot to stay up to date on things, find folks to play with, all that jazz.
TGP Dispatch: 2/24/26
February 24, 2026
5:40 pm
This week at The Gathering Place, it’s Turtles all the way down. TMNT is breaking out of the panel, coming off the page, straight out of the TV screen and onto Magic cards and tabletops the world over. We’re no exception, but TGP has a couple plans to make us special. After all, not every local game shop has the good fortune to also run a kickass pizza joint!
Of course, the Gathering Place has prerelease events all weekend long (click here for details and preregistration!)While we’ve got prerelease events happening, every sealed MTG TMNT product — booster boxes, bundles, even the preconstructed Commander deck — will come with a ticket redeemable for a FREE cheese slice down at Alpha Pie!
As if that pizza-related promo wasn’t enough, Alpha Pie is also offering the most limited of limited time deals. For this weekend only — you can order your pizza “TMNT style”
“what does ‘TMNT style’ mean????”
it means a dumb, a stupid, a cartoonish, an irresponsible amount of cheese. we’ve gone past the limits of “A Goofy Movie” and far into uncharted waters. for anyone who wants to take the plunge, going Michelangelo Mode on your Alpha Pie is an experience you can have this weekend only for a measly three additional bucks on your order of a whole pie.
You can expect to hear from us more soon about tournaments, the March event roundup, in-store events, and a whole bunch of other fun and cool things. The March Madness Chaos League specifically is your next big announcement, and folks in the TGP Discord will be the first to hear all the details!
Until then, the TGP events page is still stocked with all the event information you’re looking for (listings are already complete through March!) and the Google Sheets calendar is where it always is.
It’s a pleasure being your local game shop, your neighborhood late-night pizza spot, and a place to play some of the games you love the most.
TGP Dispatch: 2/17/26
February 17, 2026
6:43 pm
This week at The Gathering Place, we’ve got a MTG Premodern Cash Tournament, a Sealed one-slot RCQ for any competitive Magic players in the hunt for glory, a Chaos Draft Friday Night Magic and a bonus round of Chaos Draft action for the especially adventurous firing on Monday.
A real highlight for us this week is how hard the team in the distro dungeon downstairs has been working. To directly witness their triumph and to peruse the wares they’ve worked to make available, cruise through the TGP Online Store Inventory sometime this week! There’s going to be a new batch of uploads every day this week, with some real bangers, sought-after staples, higher-end inventory and brand new cards from recent sets being sold as singles!
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles prerelease is nearly upon us, so before the turtles take over, we’ve got a few things on the docket for this week and the next. Here’s the breakdown, pulled directly from the TGP Events Page. (for the full monthly calendar in Google Sheets, click here)
MTG Premodern Cash Tournament
Date / Time:
Saturday, 2/21 @ 12:00 p.m.
Details:
Premodern MTG is a community-driven format consisting of the sets from Fourth Edition to Scourge. Classic, old frame cards printed between 1995 and 2003, which were standard legal at some point during this period. See the list of all legal sets here, check out the entire Premodern card pool here. Folks have been playing a lot of Premodern in the Triangle recently, and it’s been getting traction at events and tournaments we’re adding a cash tourney into the rotation at The Gathering Place!
Entry is $20 per player, all that entry goes back into the prize pool, and registration is still up on the TGP online store!
MTG RCQ (Lorwyn Sealed)
Date / Time: 2/22 @ 11:30 a.m.
Details: $55 entry for each player, One-Slot MTG Sealed RCQ. Decklist required, rounds based on attendance. This is competitive Magic, and the potential first step on a path to the Pro Tour. Players will be expected to conduct themselves accordingly. Expect a cut to Top 8 in terms of scheduling / time.
Event hosted via Companion / EventLink
MTG Old School Cash Tournament
Date / Time: Saturday, February 28 @ 12 pm
Details: $20 entry! All Buy in goes back into the prize pool!
Play Magic the way that Richard Garfield intended; with a nostalgic card pool from Alpha to Fallen Empires. Iconic cards and strategic depth from ’93-’94, the charm of old-school gameplay, and the format that is actually your grandpa’s Magic.
TGP plays with the Eternal Central ruleset, Iconic art required, and always proxy-friendly. Come out and see what all the fuss is about!
MTG: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Prerelease
For all the details on TMNT Prerelease at The Gathering Place, click here
Friday, February 27
Saturday, February 28
Sunday, March 1
Friday, March 6
- TMNT Draft for Friday Night Magic (not prerelease weekend, but related)
Also very much worth noting, TGP will have a booth at Greenville Unplugged! If you’re around during the show, come by and say hello!
Otherwise, as always, thanks for reading and we’ll see you around!
TGP Dispatch: 2/10/26
February 10, 2026
8:16 pm
This week at The Gathering Place: February continues, the Beginner-Friendly Commander League gets cooking good and proper, we talk tournaments and shows this weekend and we prepare for the arrival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
As always, make sure you check out the Events Page and the TGP Calendar Sheet for everything happening in the shop now, later, and through the rest of the month / year!
Here’s what’s running this week, outside of the regular weekly locals and recurring events, in rapid-fire:
The prerelease of Riftbound’s Spiritforged set was something a lot more folks were looking for than we were able to take care of, so we’ve got another Spiritforged event happening this Wednesday! Here’s the details we put on Instagram:
Friday’s FNM Draft will be Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty! A perennial favorite, folks tends to be pretty excited when we get a couple new boxes of NEO in from distro. And, wouldn’t you know it, we’ve got a couple this week! See you on Friday, Kamigawa enjoyers!
After a lot of talking about it and a delay due to snow, this weekend is finally time for FINAL FINAL FANTASY. It’s been discussed a bunch, you can still check out the post we made for it with all the details, but the elevator pitch is it’s a $50 Final Fantasy Draft tournament where prizing is pretty out of control. The foil promotional posters Wizards sent the shop, the Chocobo enamel pins from the “Chocobo Racing” event, the Squall promos, the Yuna promos, we’re including them in prizing, we’re raffling them off, we’re celebrating Final Fantasy and Magic and having a great time. You should come by, it’ll be rad.
Saturday is also this month’s scheduled MTG Legacy Cash Tournament, which starts at noon. $20 buy in, entry back in the prize pool, all the usual cash tourney rules apply.
The Lorwyn League finale is this Sunday, good luck to all Lorwyn League participants and we’re going to line up some bonus prizing for y’all. See you there!
Speaking of League, the second week of the Beginner-Friendly Commander League kicks off tonight at Commander Meetup! For anyone who’s hesitant, on the fence, considering joining — honestly, this League is for you! We want to bring new(er) people into the game, help people who played Magic years ago come back to the game, and we want to introduce players to TGP’s favorite semi-limited format, Commander League!
The BFL is a great way to get started with MTG, or to learn more about what you’re trying to get out the game. It’s a place to play with new folks, in a competitive style that’ll introduce you to a wider world. You don’t have to be a “beginner,” necessarily, but the Beginner-Friendly league is an opportunity to expand beyond playing precon decks or borrowing someone else’s deck and learn a lot about the game, deckbuilding and what it’s like to shuffle up and play for real. At the end of BFL, the goal is to go home with a built-out Commander deck that’s uniquely yours, that you know inside-out. A foundation you can be proud of and play in pods from then on. Here’s the page with all the BFL details, we hope you’ll consider joining if this proposal sounds interesting to you!
Which brings us to another Magic: The Gathering line item for the week: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles prerelease weekend! It’s at the end of the month, which is sooner than it feels, so here’s the page we’ve put together for it! There’s links to preregister, we’ll have all the product Wizards sends us on shelves, and we’ll see you in a couple weeks to see what TMNT looks like on tabletops. ‘Till then, be cool, stay safe, and we’ll see you around!
TGP Dispatch: 2/3/26
Hello, friends! It’s time to talk about what’s happening at The Gathering Place! It’s the first week of a new month, so there’s a full boat of announcements to make and happenings to go over. Best we start with what kicked off literally today: the Beginner-Friendly Commander League!
For anyone who’s not acquainted, Commander League has been a staple at TGP for a long time. When the sun set on Commander League Season X, we decided after ten iterations it was worth changing things up a little bit. We began 2026 with a set-specific League squarely focused on MTG’s return to Lorwyn, but we’re opening up our next League this week for anyone who’s been a little on the fence about getting heavy into Magic: The Gathering!
The Beginner-Friendly League is meant to be a fun and hands-on way to take the next step into playing Magic, a soft launch into tournament play and an ongoing exploration into deckbuilding best practices as well as a primer for the Leagues yet to come. Commander League play is a whole different animal, as any League player can tell you, and the Beginner League is a great way to get to know the process as a first-timer without getting throw in the deep end and told to swim.
Each player starts with a precon, just like League. Each player begins with a prerelease kit of their choice, taken from a selection of Lorwyn: Eclipsed, Outlaws of Thunder Junction, Core Set 2019/20, or Spider-Man. From there, it’s a flat $20 a week to receive three packs of MTG boosters, hand-picked literally just for you by TGP staff. The event is limited to 32 participants so we can keep track of everybody and provide guidance on what you’re looking for, who might have trades for you, whatever you need to streamline your League play and understand the landscape. We’re here to help! Also, participation in the TGP discord channel (specifically, the newly-created private Beginner League channel!) might also be a boon when it comes to getting you on the path to glory come tournament time.
For all the details on the Beginner-Friendly Commander League, click here!
There’s a lot of other events happening this week too! Girly Pop Magic is making a triumphant and femme-forward return to TGP for another Thursday night session! GPM comes by TGP every month, so come back the first Thursday and play some fun games with some truly excellent folks! Check out the Girly Pop Magic page(s) for all the details and some truly wonderful posts. If you’ve seen the Prerelease Primers for Lorwyn that were in the shop, that was GPM’s doing! They’re very cool!
This Saturday, TGP is hosting the monthly CEDH Dual Land Tournament, so we’ll see all our competitive Commander player out there on the battlefield come the weekend. Good luck to all, and know registration is still available if you haven’t locked in your slot just yet.
Sunday, 2/8 is looking pretty popping as well. Two prereleases in the form of Gundam GD03 (rescheduled due to snow) and Riftbound: Spiritforged. Both are starting at 1:00 p.m., signups are in person and online at the respective TCG spots, carde.io for Riftbound and Bandai for Gundam.
Next week, the ball keeps rolling up with the [rescheduled] FINAL FINAL FANTASY tournament (which is going to be very cool and fun, not to mention an excellent opportunity to take home a sweet FF promo or the Sephiroth poster right off the TGP wall) and then the Lorwyn League Finale on Sunday!
As the month gets rolling good and proper, keep an eye on the TGP Events pages for changes and updates, be expecting a few more posts about what’s going on, and we’ll see you around!
TGP Dispatch: 1/27/26
This week at The Gathering Place, we’re defrosting just enough to get ready for another potential round of snowfall this weekend and – in the meantime – we’re getting ready for the end of January and the beginning of next month!
Perhaps the most immediate news to highlight is the rescheduling of the Final Final Fantasy event. Originally slated for this upcoming Sunday, 2/1, we’ve made the decision to preemptively reschedule it. We’ve heard a good bit about folks traveling a ways to come out for it, and we don’t want anybody to either miss out or put themselves in even the smallest amount of danger to play Magic: The Gathering. No matter how good the prizing might be.
So, the new date for Final Final Fantasy is Saturday, 2/14. We also made a couple other changes: since some folks might have dinner plans on that particular Saturday, we’re still starting it at noon, but now it’s running it as a Draft event instead of sealed, as well as ditching the Comp REL component. Draft has potential to be a shorter event, no decklists need to be written down or anything, and it has the pleasant side benefit of cutting the price of entry literally in half.
Entry for Final Final Fantasy is now $50, but the prizing is still the same. We refunded all previously reserved ticked through the TGP online store, and there’s a new ticket option now for the $50 buy-in. The tournament will cut to Top 8, and prizing will scale directly with attendance. All 16 Yuna promos, the posters, the pins, and everything we had set aside for the event remains unchanged! We’ll just add more sealed FF to the mix: packs, Collector Boosters, and if enough people show up we’ll start throwing FF foils from the case on top of existing prizing.
For all the details, click here.
For the Final Final Fantasy registration link on the TGP site, click here.
We’re still very much on for the Premodern Cash Tournament on Saturday, however. Starting at noon, $20 buy in, a cash for clash in the Premodern format of MTG. Premodern is still gaining traction and steam, and looks like it might just be one of the new favorite ways to play Magic. We’re kicking off Premodern locals on Wednesdays in February too, so be on the lookout for those!
Speaking of next month, that’s also when you’ll see the kickoff of our Beginner-Friendly Commander League! For anyone looking to get into Magic: The Gathering but not sure where to start, this is the place for you.
Buy in is $30 plus the cost of a preconstructed MTG Commander deck. Players will choose their own preconstructed deck to start with, and receive sleeves + starter packs like usual. The main difference is size, personal attention and the week-over-week pack slot mechanics.
BFL will feature a fixed $20/week structure, which comes with curated packs for each player and personal knowledge from staff. To keep things manageable and provide the experience we want, the Beginner Friendly League is capped at 36 players, or, nine full pods of four.
Beginner-Friendly Commander League Registration Link Here
For those curious about the details of other League events at The Gathering Place throughout 2026, you can check out this post right here.
There’s more to cover about what’s happening in February, some fun news about tournaments in-store and more, but this Dispatch is already close to 600 words. So those will be in other, separate posts so they get the attention they deserve instead of getting lost in the sauce. They’ll be posted on the TGP site, and put in the #announcements channel on the TGP Discord, so stay tuned tomorrow and Thursday.
Until then, stay safe, stay warm, and we’ll see you around!
(also, Slab Game is back if you feel like taking a shot at owning a piece of Power, y’know, if that’s something you’re interested in)
TGP Dispatch: 1/20/25
This week at The Gathering Place, we’re still positively buzzing in the shadow of the Lorwyn: Eclipsed release!
All the prerelease tournaments were popping, we’ve seen some stellar stuff cracked in-store already, and the events focused on Lorwyn’s unique set and setting continue on TGP tabletops this week. FNM Draft will be Lorwyn: Eclipsed [ECL] and we’ll keep packs on the shelves as long as we’ve got ’em! Boxes are still for sale, and Collector boosters of [ECL] are $40 at the time of this post.
Of course, Lorwyn activities go beyond prereleases and drafts. There’s also Lorwyn League, which is kicking off today! For all the details, check out the post here.
There’s also a ~private channel~ over on the TGP Discord for Lorwyn League players to trade and talk shop, so if you’d like to be granted access send Victor / Ludovician a DM or tag @staff somewhere relevant. Whatever’s clever, really. If you’re not in the TGP Discord…. I mean, why wouldn’t you be in the TGP Discord?
Relevant events for the rest of the month include:
Saturday, 1/24
Gundam Starter Deck ST07+ST08 Event @ 1:00 p.m.
Digimon Evolution Cup Tournament Volume III @ 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, 1/25
Riftbound Nexus Night @ 1:00 p.m.
Saturday, 1/31
MTG Preemodern Cash Tournament @ 12:00 p.m.
Gundam TCG GD03 Prerelease Event @ 1:00 p.m.
The Gathering Place’s event calendar is the most up to date and best place to get a feel for what’s happening at the shop and when, as always. Worth noting, another CEDH Dual Land tournament is coming up on the first Saturday of February, and we’ll be publishing breakdowns for the FINAL FINAL FANTASY event and the Beginner-Friendly Commander League tomorrow!
See you then, have a great start to your week, and be safe as temperatures drop and the chances of wintry precipitation rise.
Also, of major importance: ALPHA PIE IS NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH. 11 IN THE MORNING PIZZA, BAYBE
TGP Dispatch: 1/13/25
January 13, 2026
12:13 pm
This week at The Gathering Place, obviously the big banner item is the Lorwyn: Eclipsed prerelease!
All the details and everything you need for that are in one convenient post, which you can find here.
As a quick reminder, here’s when the tournaments are happening:
Friday, January 16
Prerelease Sealed 2:30 p.m.
Prerelease Sealed 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 17
Prerelease Sealed 12:00 p.m.
Prerelease Sealed 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 18
Prerelease Sealed Two-Headed Giant @ 12:00 p.m.
Worth noting — and it’ll be talked about in the trivia channel on the TGP Discord, as well — that trivia this Friday will be bumped back to a 10:30 start time, but it’ll stick with the same six-question rounds format. All other trivia rules and regulations apply, as do the usual prizes. See you there.
Other important news, a whole lot of new inventory has been added on the TGP Online Store! There’s a bunch of hot singles in your area, including some heat from the Avatar: The Last Airbender UB set, so check ’em out if you’ve got anything on your list to grab!
TGP is also in the process of restructuring how our in-house D&D events work, you might have already noticed we’ve shifted the D&D Learn to Play events to a monthly event. We’re revamping signups, process, and we want to make it as cool as possible. Stay tuned for all that action, and if you’ve got any suggestions or things you’d like to see, send us a message here.
For the convention-curious and Charlie’s Collectible Show-minded, TGP is coming back to CCS because it’s fun and we like doing it!
Moving back to events and such, we’re just about halfway through January, so here’s a quick hit reminder of the events yet to come:
Sunday, 1/18
Digimon Time Stranger Prerelease Event @ 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, 1/20
Lorwyn League Begins
Saturday, 1/24
Gundam Starter Deck ST07+ST08 Event @ 1:00 p.m.
Digimon Evolution Cup Tournament Volume III @ 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, 1/25
Riftbound Nexus Night @ 1:00 p.m.
Saturday, 1/31
MTG Preemodern Cash Tournament @ 12:00 p.m.
Gundam TCG GD03 Prerelease Event @ 1:00 p.m.
The Gathering Place’s event calendar is the most up to date and best place to get a feel for what’s happening at the shop and when! Check it out at your leisure, come hang out and play some cool games sometime, and we’ll see you around!
TGP Dispatch: 1/6/26
Hello and, formally, welcome to 2026 from The Gathering Place. It’s our first full week back and January is already shaping up to be an incredibly busy month. There’s a lot to talk about, we won’t get to all of it today, you’ll see more updates here on the TGP site and through our various channels of communication (chief among them, the TGP Discord). So be on the lookout for all that action. Here’s what we’re focusing on right now, in the immediate.
1. 2026 Changes and Updates
We posted this on the site a little while ago, and it’s relevant to also include in the Dispatch for the week. Long story short — TGP is changing our policy regarding outside food, we’re changing up the Discord a little bit, and we’re going to be more active in monitoring and maintaining our private lot’s parking situation to better prioritize folks who are actually coming here.
The full post, all the details, it’s all right here.
2. The TGP Parking Situation
Related to the above, worth noting in its own separate category, check out the new TGP Parking Guide. Hopefully it’s useful.
3.The Events Calendar / Page
You may have already noticed, the Events page is a little different. There’s also a little widget on the homepage as well, but some kinks are still getting worked out there. More on that in a second.
First, and most importantly for now, is the brand-new TGP Events Calendar on Google Sheets. The change we made last year was pretty successful and seemed to be positively received, and we have incorporated feedback to make the new calendar hopefully even better at its job of telling people what’s happening in the store and when.
Check out the MONTHLY / YEARLY calendar for The Gathering Place here
The Events Page on TGP’s site has a link to that Google Sheet calendar, which is nice, but it’s also got a link to a more in-house solution. We’re currently building out a calendar directly on the TGP site, things are getting added as fast as we are able. It’ll be substantially more built out this time next week, check it out then. Or now, if you want, I’m not your supervisor. It’s just not done yet.
4. Events currently on the aforementioned calendar
Lorwyn is releasing this month, we’re doing a little special “Lorwyn League” alongside that. We’ve got a “Beginner-Friendly League,” we’ve got an “Expert-Level League” we’ve got the flagship TGP Commander League XI, we’ve got specialty tournaments and fun stuff and all kinds of things happening soon, and happening all year. You’ll see more information, breakdowns and elevator pitches in the coming days. It’s just a little too much to break down today, in this announcement. We’re already four topics deep, and we haven’t even covered —
This Week at The Gathering Place
Thursday, 1/8 — Girlypop Magic @ 6:00 p.m.
TGP is delighted, absolutely and positively hyped, to be part of Girlypop Magic‘s ongoing takeover of the Triangle! The first Thursday of every month, we’re hosting Girlypop for an evening of femme-forward, non-binary-friendly, gender-expansive and all-around fun session of MTG with a focus on Commander play and good times.
Friday, 1/9 — One Piece TCG OP14 Product Release
The Azure Sea’s Seven comes out this weekend, the prerelease event for it is on Saturday, but we’ll have product on the shelves when we open on Friday.
Saturday, 1/10 — MTG Modern Cash Tournament (@12:00 p.m.) + One Piece OP14 Prerelease Event (@1:00 p.m.)
The Modern Cash Tournament is the same as it ever was, $20 entry, high-level MTG gameplay in the Modern format. All entry back in the prize pool, and a no-holds-barred skirmish for supremacy.
One Piece continues to sail the TCG high seas, and OP14’s prerelease at TGP is this Saturday starting at one. The event has already capped in signups over on Bandai, but we’ll have a waitlist day-of if you want to try and snag a spot from somebody who didn’t show.
Sunday, 1/11 — Riftbound Summoner’s Skirmish (@1:00 p.m.) + cHaOs BoOsTeR dRaFt (@3:00 p.m.)
TGP literally just expanded the cap for this Sunday’s Riftbound tournament from 16 to 32, so signups are back open literally right now. Event information and registration here.
Also, MTG Chaos Draft at 3:00 p.m.! It’s the first one of the year, feels like we could make it a little something special if enough people show up. Just saying. See you there, maybe.
Also also, did you know Lorwyn: Eclipsed is releasing soon? Did you know you can sign up for prerelease tournaments at TGP right here, right now? Click here
Like I said, this is already a lot of information and things to throw at you, so we’re calling the Dispatch for the week here. Already just about at 800 words, sheesh. More things will be talked about, posted about, and expounded upon soon.
For now, thanks for reading, thanks for hanging, thanks for playing, and we’ll see you around.
TGP Holiday Dispatch: 12/23/25
December 23, 2025
2:32 pm
Hello, friends!
Today, Tuesday, 12/23, is The Gathering Place’s last day of business for 2025. We’ll be closed for nine days — Wednesday, 12/24 through Thursday, 1/1 — and reopening with normal business hours on Friday, 1/2.
To that end, here’s some stuff to know as we wrap up the year:
- TGP online orders and systems are being cleared for the new year. Any unpaid orders will be returned to our inventory over the break. If you would like to reorder those items in the future, our online inventory will reflect what is available from TGP.
- We’re clearing out the informal TGP “lost and found,” so any items left unclaimed will be donated and moved out of the shop.
- Today is the last day, obviously, of the in-store and online sales. If there’s anything you’ve been waiting to snag, from single cards in the case to board games on the shelf, today’s the day to do it.
For updates to what’s happening in-store, both in January 2026 and the rest of the year beyond that, look for the TGP Dispatch on Tuesday, 1/6. It’ll be posted here on the TGP site, an announcement will be made in the Discord server, all the usual channels. We’ll have some big news, announcements and certainly a great deal to look forward to in the coming months.
Until then, here’s a quick breakdown of what’s happening in January:
- 1/3 — CEDH Dual Land Tournament (link for details and registration here)
- 1/10 —ONE PIECE CARD GAME OP-14 Release Event @ 1:00 p.m.
- 1/18 — DIGIMON CARD GAME Booster Pack -TIME STRANGER- [BT-24] Release Event @ 1:00 p.m.
- 1/16 through 1/18 — Lorwyn Eclipsed Prerelease (details, registration and more here)
- 1/24 — GUNDAM CARD GAME ST07/08 Release Event @ 1:00 p.m.
- 1/24 — DIGIMON CARD GAME Evolution Cup 2025 Vol.3 @ 1:00 p.m.
- 1/31 — GUNDAM CARD GAME GD03 Release Event @ 1:00 p.m.
To all, we wish you a pleasant, merry, bright, warm and happy holiday. May your pulls be incredible and your top deck draws immaculate. We’ll see you in 2026, and we’ll keep doing our best to be the game store, card shop and local bar North Carolina needs.
