TGP Dispatch: 1/28/25
As we move out of the first month of 2025, The Gathering Place has plenty going on!
This week, Sorcery is back to Constructed play, FAB is drafting The Hunted on Friday night, Victor makes a return to the TGP Friday Night Trivia spotlight, and we’ll have our last Innistrad Remastered draft as this week’s FNM event.
As always, you can find the full weekly+monthly event calendar here.
Our two big spotlights this week are a special D&D comedy show on Saturday night and our Lorcana Store Championship tournament on Sunday!
Happening this Saturday at 9:00 p.m. – Comedy n’ Dice is a fantastical and altogether hilarious live show full of thrills, laughs and genuine peril! Will they succeed? Will they perish? Either way, you’ll laugh until you 20-sided die!
As for our Lorcana Store Championships, we’re sailing the Azurite Sea on Sunday, 2/2! $20 entry, prizing in the form of sealed product, gift sets featuring everybody’s favorite lovable little blue guy (Stitch!), and other goodies. Truly, a store champ worth fighting for. Find all the details on the calendar, the Facebook event listing, and call the shop directly for anything further queries.
Looking a little ahead, there’s a lot coming up in the immediate future. Commander League signups begin on Tuesday, 2/4, Aetherdrift’s prerelease event launches off the line on Friday, 2/7, continuing through the weekend. Then we’ve got an MTG Legacy cash tournament on Saturday, 2/15, and an RCQ event in Sealed format (Aetherdrift) on Sunday, 2/16!
There’s so much more happening soon, so have a great rest of your week and we’ll see you around!
TGP Dispatch: 1/21/25
The Gathering Place is finishing the first month of 2025 strong with a stacked week – tournaments, new releases, a whole lot of stuff is going on! As usual, you can find the full calendar of TGP events right here.
To get specific about it, let’s start with Thursday! The monthly mini painting party is back! We’ve got a rack of Army Painter paints you can avail yourself of for a modest fee, we’ll have discounts on our in-stock minis if you’d like to pick up and paint something new, and we’ll see you at the bar to paint at 6:00 p.m.
Friday is where the rubber really hits the road – alongside the usual cEDH pods for folks looking to test their MTG mettle, we’ve got TWO releases: Innistrad Remastered drafting as this week’s Friday Night Magic and Flesh and Blood’s prerelease for The Hunted!
Innistrad Remastered is drafting starting at 7:00, FAB gets going at 7:30, and both events are anticipated to be pretty lively, so it might be worth your time and effort to get to TGP a little early to secure your spot!
Saturday, the hits keep on coming with another draft event for Innistrad Remastered, really putting in the Gothic horror hours and getting going at 5:00 p.m. so things at TGP this weekend stay bloody, based and ghoulcaller-pilled. Then, another specialty draft on Sunday as we crack open a box of Phyrexia: All Will Be One for a Sunday afternoon draft beginning at 3:00 p.m.
Looking ahead a little bit, Lorcana Store Championships are going to be held at TGP on Sunday, 2/2, Commander League Signups begin on Tuesday, 2/4, and MTG’s new Fast and Furious set “Aetherdrift” drops the following weekend!
There’s events scheduled all the way through April right now, so give that flagship TGP event calendar a look at your leisure (here it is again), and we’ll see you around!
TGP Dispatch 1/14/25
This week at The Gathering Place, we’ve got most of the usual suspects on the docket. Commander meetups, free play sessions, Sorcery is back on that Constructed grindset, FAB taking in one last week before The Hunted hits, a nice second full week of 2025 in our future.
Standard RCQ went off this past Sunday, a big shoutout to everybody who came to play! Don’t forget to mark that calendar for the MTG Regional Championship Qualifier (sealed, Aetherdrift), happening on Sunday, 2/16!
This week, the Modern Cash Tournament is happening at noon on Saturday. $25 entry, payout and prizing to Top 8 and dependent on attendance. Modern has changed quite a bit here in the last stretch, and this is a good opportunity to see what works and what doesn’t in a brand new landscape and a brave new world where Faithless Looting and Green Sun’s Zenith are officially back in play. The Ring is dead, long live the Mox.
Next week we’ll be gathering for our monthly Mini Painting Party, so we’ll see you at the bar to paint some little guys then, Commander League is kicking off official signups the first full week of February and MTG’s Fast and Furious Death Race 2000 Redline set “Aetherdrift” has a full prerelease weekend February 7/8/9!
TGP Dispatch 1/7/25
Big news this week is a single-slot MTG RCQ, a great opportunity to hit the ground running in the new format and get a handle on the brave new world the MTG Standard landscape. Decklists are required for this event, cost to enter is $30, and if you’d like to know where the Companion app code is, it’s right here: YQR7V3R
Sorcery is still drafting, One Piece is still firing, the TGP board game shelf is back open for business and free for you and your folks to grab a game and find a table. We’re back for our first full week of 2025, and in celebration of UNC’s FDOC, we’re opening Alpha Pie for a little early pizza action. If you’ve got the time and the inclination to come grab a slice, we’d love to see you!
As far as planning for the future goes, here’s some important dates to go ahead and jot down:
- 1/24: FAB The Hunted prerelease
- 1/25: MTG Innistrad Remastered Release Weekend AND Draft
- 2/2: MTG cEDH Invitational
- 2/4: Commander League signups begin (first week kicks off 2/11)
- 2/7-9: MTG Aetherdrift Prerelease Weekend
- 2/16: MTG Regional Championship Qualifier (Sealed, Aetherdrift)
Preorders for The Hunted and Innistrad Remastered are online on TGP’s store page, and the window will be fairly limited to get those advance orders in, so don’t hesitate if you’re the type who wants to go ahead and get your box reserved.
Of interest to Commander League players and potential aspirants, we’ll be holding Commander Meetups on the normal days (Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday) but we’ll have tournaments this season on Sundays. There’s a lot of tournaments and big events happening, and we want to make sure there’s space for League players to fully participate. But, to keep things abundantly real, a big reason for this is because parking in the Rosemary parking decks is free on Sunday.
We’ve also already gotten started on our monthly calendar planning through April, and we’ll keep you updated on things as they get added week-by-week! There’s a lot of rad stuff in the works, and we’re excited for another year well-spent at TGP. See you around!
TGP Dispatch 1/3/25
Hello and good afternoon! Friends, welcome to 2025. We, The Gathering Place, are so literally officially back.
We’re celebrating the new year by being open – so come on down for a drink, a slice, a game or two. Not a lot has changed around here since the last time you saw us, and honestly I think we can all agree that a little consistency isn’t the worst thing in the world.
Other things we can agree on? 2025 is off to a STRONG start in terms of upcoming events. The TGP monthly calendar has been updated with all the big events we’ve already got scheduled and locked in, and we’re going to keep planning things as we settle back in to our respective grooves at the shop. So keep an eye out for more announcements!
This weekend, this Saturday, tomorrow, we’re hosting a big style cEDH tournament! No proxy limit, $30 entry, and a dual land to the winner. Get those decks ready, come ready to play at 11:30 a.m. – we’re getting started early so hopefully our competitors can still see a little daylight when the dust settles and the spoils have been allocated to the appropriate victors.
See y’all next Tuesday for a full week’s worth of announcements and a larger look ahead. Until then, happy new year and welcome back!
