TGP Dispatch: 3/31/26
TGP Events Page
Monthly Calendar for The Gathering Place in Google Sheets
It’s the last day of March, spring is in full swing, and The Gathering Place is getting ready for a brand-new month replete with tournaments, new releases, shop events and more. If you haven’t checked out the “April at TGP” post yet, now is the time to do so!
Before we get to the rest of today’s post, here’s what’s happening this week:
- Monthly D&D Learn to Play session at TGP / Wednesday at 6:00 p.m.
- Take your first steps into the world of D&D with a guided session led by our own Ben Creed!
- Girlypop Magic Commander Night / Thursday at 6:00 p.m.
- Come play Magic in a femme-forward, highly inclusive, overwhelmingly welcoming environment. Girlypop has quickly become one of the biggest things running monthly at TGP!
- Old School Thursday (MTG ’93-’94) / Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
- It literally is your grandpa’s Magic, and it’s really cool and fun
- MTG FNM Draft: Theros Beyond Death / Friday at 7:00 p.m.
- It’s all Greek to everybody this Friday, as our Draft heads to Theros for some Heroic Age action
- cEDH Invitational Tournament / Saturday at 12:00 p.m.
- You’ve heard about it quite a bit, expect this to be a BIG tournament. It’s a qualifier for the Black Lotus Invitational, this Saturday’s prize pool includes a Beta Wheel put up by TGP, and the competition is looking fierce.
- D&D Combat Arena Session / Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
- A new addition to the TGP lineup, Sunday sessions are combat-focused, crunchy D&D! There’s a six-player cap per DM and registration is in-person only.
This is the last time you’ll hear about the April cEDH Invitational because it’s this Saturday, but one last time: there’s a guaranteed Beta Wheel in the prize pool. If you’d like to sign up on TopDeck, click here. You have have noticed we’ve taken all other Saturday events off the calendar for 4/4 — that’s because preregistration for this cEDH tournament would suggest we’re not gonna have a whole lot of spare space at the shop. If you want to come hang out at TGP, plan for that amount of attendance. Come grab a drink, pick up some cards, crack some packs, hang at the bar — but don’t plan on being able to secure a six-top to play Catan.
The TGP online store continues to be added to, with more inventory now than ever before. Precons, singles, higher-end MTG, there’s so much in there these days. Go give it a look!
Next week’s schedule is looking stacked, as well! Obviously, all the event information and listings are on the TGP Events Page and calendar, but now’s a great time to consider signing up formally for the MTG Modern RCQ or next Sunday’s MTG Team Trios Tournament!
MTG Modern RCQ Preregistration
MTG Team Trios (Premodern, Legacy, Vintage) Tournament Preregistration
(signups on the day obviously still welcome, but it can be nice to have a spot secured in advance!)
That about wraps it up for this week! Secrets of Strixhaven comes out real soon, April is set to be a fun month at The Gathering Place, and we’re excited to host so many great events for a great community. See you around!
TGP Dispatch: 3/24/26
TGP Events Page
Monthly Calendar for The Gathering Place in Google Sheets
This week at TGP we’re getting ready for a fully-stacked end to March as we host a bunch of events and get ready to start April off in a big way. Tournaments, prereleases, there’s a lot happening!
This week, you can be on the lookout for:
- Friday Night Magic draft of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, Friday at 7:00 p.m.
- The next MTGPunks tournament, a Pauper Cash Tournament showdown, Saturday at 12:00 p.m.
- The Finale Tournament for our March Madness Chaos Commander League, Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
- Gundam TCG ST09 Release Event, Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
- One Piece TCG OP15 Prerelease Event, Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
All of that’s on the calendar and we’ve been doing our best to get info and promo out there, so you probably know all about all that stuff by now. To that end, we’ve already formally planned and listed all the way through April, and published a whole post about it! Check it out here!
April is positively popping with a whole lot of fun stuff, and we’ve specifically arranged to have preregistration on the TGP online store for as much as possible. So, give it a look, and we’re excited to see you at some of those events and tournaments next month!
Speaking of the TGP online store, the Distro Dungeon has been hard at work! There’s literally over a thousand new cards added to online inventory. A slew of singles, a cavalcade of cardboard, a bevvy of beautiful cards to peruse. Go give it a look if you haven’t noticed already.
Last on the list of housekeeping items for this week is the cEDH Invitational scheduled for the first Saturday in April. Saturday, April 4, is a date worth everyone’s time to remember.
(and not just because there’s a guaranteed Beta Wheel in the prize pool for the tournament! If you’d like to sign up on TopDeck, click here)
You may have already clocked, we’ve taken all other events at TGP off the calendar for that day. This pretty much had to happen, because preregistration for this cEDH Invitational is HUGE. If you’d like to sign up and come play cEDH, we’ll see you on April 4! If you’re not planning on playing in the tournament, it may be a good idea to plan another day to come hang out at The Gathering Place. It’s going to be packed, and non-tournament table space is going to be tight. Come grab a drink, pick up some cards, crack some packs, but don’t plan on being able to secure a six-top to play Catan or jam a game of Commander.
also, say hey to Chris, he works here now.
TGP Dispatch: 3/17/26
This week at The Gathering Place, the banner item is — without a doubt — our monthly cEDH Dual Land Tournament! Of course, there’s plenty of other things happening at the shop, and you can find all our happenings on the Monthly Calendar we maintain on Google Sheets and on the TGP Events Page.
There’s not too much time left in March, and we’re already working to get April fully booked and listed on the TGP Events Page. For what’s left in this month, here’s the final three big events (including the Dual Land tournament!):
MTG CEDH Dual Land Tournament
Date / Time: Saturday, March 21, at 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, 3/21, 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.
Link:
Event registration is run through TopDeck. (https://topdeck.gg/thegatheringplace)
MTG Pauper Cash Tournament
Date / Time: Saturday, March 28 @ 12:00 p.m.
Pauper is the “oops! all commons!” format of MTG where low-rarity cards produce some interesting, fun, shockingly complex gameplay. Entry per player is $20, all entry goes back to the prize pool, and the MTGPunks tournament series continues!
Gundam TCG ST09 Release Event
Date / Time: Sunday, March 29 @ 1:00 p.m.
$40 entry per player, 16 player capacity as limited by Bandai-supplied promos. Each player receives a copy of ST09 – Destiny Ignition to play with across Swiss rounds in this release event tournament. Promos, packs, prizing, Gundam!
One Piece TCG OP15 Prerelease Event
Date / Time: Sunday, March 29 @ 1:00 p.m.
$30 entry, 32 player capacity, a One Piece TCG prerelease event celebrating the release of OP15: Adventure on The Island of The Gods! A return to Sky Island with all the rambunctious Devil Fruit powered action players and fans expect from One Piece! The Gathering Place will have promos and packs as prizes for players, so we’ll see you there!
The March Madness Chaos League continues in-store, especially relevant as the NCAA tournament kicks off proper elsewhere. Packs have been cracked, decks have been made, pivots have been pivoted, and we’re excited to see how it all shakes out in the immediate future. Don’t forget, League players, Sunday 3/22 at 12:00 p.m. is the League Party and pre-tournament — that’s for seeding in the finale — and then the Finale Tournament itself is on Saturday, 3/28 @ 1:00 p.m.!
As always, thanks for hanging out with us here at The Gathering Place. It’s a privilege and a pleasure to be your local neighborhood game shop, and we’ll see you around.
TGP Dispatch: 3/10/26
This week at The Gathering Place, March continues in fine fashion! The weather is warming up The Pollen Times are nearly truly upon us, and we finally turned the heat off and the air conditioning on for the season.
Events-wise, this week is a big one: the Friday Night Magic draft for this week is Dominaria Remastered, we’ve got the Standard Constructed MTG RCQ on Saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. Also on Saturday, one of our Monthly Cash Tournaments, MTG Vintage firing off at noon. Perhaps most importantly it’s a BIG weekend for the One Piece TCG!
Saturday and Sunday, we’ve got back-to-back big time One Piece events! The Treasure Cup on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. and the Heroine’s Battle Tournament on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. – prizes, promos and all the usual fun stuff on tap for both.
All the details for these events, and the rest through the month of March, are over on the Events Page of the TGP website! We’ve also got our Monthly Calendar done up far further in advance over on Google Sheets. Check ‘em both out.
Also a big announcement, you might have seen it on our socials earlier today, but TEAM TRIOS is officially ON THE BOOKS! Check it out:
TEAM TRIOS TOURNAMENT AT THE GATHERING PLACE
You asked for it, we organized it! MTG Trios with Premodern, Legacy and Vintage at TGP!
- The tournament is on Sunday, April 12
- It kicks off at noon, 12:00 p.m.
- Buy in is $30 per player
Team Trios has come a long way from 2011, and this triple-header format features what folks have asked for the most: Premodern, Legacy and Vintage! All format rulesets apply, we’re going to enforce rules at competitive level, Prizing and Rounds will depend on attendance.
If you’re familiar with TGP’s typical cash tournament structure, that’s what we’re working with here. All entry back in the prize pool, AND this Team Trios Tournament is Full Proxy Friendly! (all the typical TGP rules apply there, too. Make sure those proxies are easily identifiable across the table!)
**Trinity Assembly Required! Come with your team filled out, TGP will not be able to provide teammates for solos or duos.**
That’s about it for this week, beyond the fact that Chaos League continues, the TGP Discord is still our #1 place for you to interact with your favorite local game shop, and we hope you’re having a great week so far. See you around!
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)
