TGP Dispatch: 7/22/25
This week at The Gathering Place, get ready to go to spaaaaaaaaaaaace!
Magic’s new set, a Spelljammers type beat where the Blind Eternities and the space between worlds is host to untold wonders and unforeseen dangers, Edge of Eternities is MTG’s foray into science fiction flavored fantasy and things are certainly taking off! Shocklands back in Standard, some of these cards sure look like they might have an effect on other formats, EOE has some real potential.
With all that hype on the table, you can preregister for a prerelease tournament at TGP online, and here’s the official schedule:
Friday, 7/25
2:30 p.m. (sealed prerelease tournament)
7:00 p.m. (sealed prerelease tournament)
Saturday, 7/26
12:00 p.m. (sealed prerelease tournament)
4:00 p.m. (sealed prerelease tournament)
Sunday, 7/26
4:00 p.m. (Two Headed Giant sealed prerelease tournament)
Again, registration for these tournaments is being done via the TGP website! Click here to snag your ticket for the prerelease event(s) you want to play in!
Other than big-mode MTG prerelease tournaments, we’ve also got a One Piece Box Break Tournament on Sunday! The event kicks off at 1:00 p.m. – it’s $25 entry per player and every six players who enter add another box of One Piece packs to the prize pile.
We’re also getting ready for August’s monthly CEDH Tournament, but there’s a whole lot happening in August. Check out our shop event calendar here, and expect to see a full August breakdown in next week’s announcement!
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!
TGP Dispatch: 7/8/25
This week at The Gathering Place, it’s week six of the Commander League Summer Session, Sorcery’s get-together is a constructed battle between rival wizards, we’re hosting a Biddie’s Night complete with BINGO and Scrabble, there’s an MTG Modern RCQ with one slot on the line and infinite TCG glory – it’s all happening at TGP!
Here’s some info, taken live and direct from the TGP calendar:
SUNDAY: MTG MODERN RCQ
starts @ 11:30 p.m. / $30 Entry
Tournament is Swiss rounds, rounds based on attendance. This is a single-slot RCQ, so bring you A-game and battle your way to an invitational qualifier to find your footing in Magic’s pro-player scene. With that in mind, decklists are required, and the event will be running at a competitive rules enforcement level.
SATURDAY: “Biddies Night” – TGP BINGO and a SCRABBLE CASH TOURNAMENT
6:00 pm
A special TGP event! Put on your finest orthopedic shoes and hold on to your hard candies, because we’re hosting a Biddies Night at TGP! We’re running BINGO with some fabulous prizes, and also hosting a limited-entry SCRABBLE cash tournament!
As many people who want can enter to play BINGO, but the Scrabble tournament is limited-entry. A maximum of 8 entrants, $5 entry each, all entry right back in the prize pool! Don’t spend it all in one place, sweetie!
Of course, the events keep on coming and they don’t stop coming, so here’s a look at the immediate future, as well:
Saturday, July 19: Pokéfest!
An opportunity to get together, look through binders, make trades, play games and have fun! TGP is digging through our stock of Pokémon cards to bring out some extra-special items for this event, and we’ve also got a line on a custom-made Pokémon TCG Cube for drafting!
Saturday, July 19: MTG THEME DECK CASH CLASH
We found a whole bunch of old-school MTG Theme Decks in the dungeon, and we had a hell of an idea: get ‘em all together, hand ‘em out randomly for $40 each, and players take those 60-card sealed theme decks and battle it out in an event with 16-player capacity across four rounds with direct payout to Top 4. Wanna clash for cash, schoolyard style? This is your chance!
Sunday, July 20: Summer Commander League Tournament II
You know what it is, another League tournament stacks with wall-to-wall EDH action, raffles, cool prizes, and plenty of packs to the winners. See you there, League players!
Sunday, July 20: Digimon BT-22, Cyber Eden Prerelease
Digimon. Digital monsters. Digimon are the champions. Prerelease, Digimon Card Game, Digimon Cyber Eden.
Sunday, July 27: One Piece Box Break Tournament ROUND 2!!!
Every six players who enter add another box of One Piece packs to the prize pile, and we’re going BIG for this tournament! Magic ain’t the only TCG in town, and One Piece is coming in HOT with heat in the packs and fast-paced games on the table.
TGP Dispatch: 7/1/25
This week at the Gathering Place: we’re hosting a block party cookout on Friday afternoon, special Red/White/Blue Commander pods for Friday Night Magic, Comedy N Dice is back in town for this Saturday’s comedy night, and the next CEDH Dual Land Tournament is this Sunday!
It’s also week five of Commander League: Summer Session, and things are certainly COOKING over in Commander League. As summer continues to heat up, so do the decks in play. The next tournament is Sunday, July 20, best of luck to all League players on the battlefield and in their pulls!
In place of the usual First Saturday TGP Comedy Showcase, this week we’re delighted to announce the return of Comedy N Dice! Here’s what you can expect, straight from the dice’s mouth:
Comedy N Dice is a live role playing game where local comedians Tyler Wood, Grant Janik, Mark Brady, Shane Smith and their friends take you on a one of a kind, fanciful roleplaying adventure.
Will they succeed? Will they perish? Either way, you’ll laugh until you 20 sided die
Content warnings: This is an adult show with adult language. There will likely be fantasy violence and some adult content.
The show is FREE!
And, of course, CEDH is here again! Come out on Sunday July 6 at 12 for the Dual Land Tourney.
$30 entry, with a Dual Land going to 1st place! Pay out to top 4 with more prizing based on attendance! Sign up at topdeck here:
https://topdeck.gg/event/cedh-dual-land-tourney-2
This week’s banner news is the officially unofficial Gathering Place / Alpha Pie block party cookout taking place on Friday, July 4. We’re cooking up a whole lot of excellent summertime classics, and we’re cordially inviting all our friends and neighbors to come by and grab a plate for free. We want to provide a place for folks to feel welcome, to get fed, to hang out with friends, and to feel like things just might be alright. We’ll see you there!
Also — we’re in the process of getting calendar sorted out through November (!!!) so keep an eye on the usual spot between now and next week’s announcements, and we’ll see you around!
TGP Dispatch: 6/24/25
This week at The Gathering Place we’re celebrating Pride with an MTG Commander Event on Sunday, Sorcery is playing Constructed this week, FAB is still sailing the High Seas, there’s a whole lot happening!
Here’s some details for the Pride event on Sunday, taken live and direct from Instagram:
Come celebrate Pride with us here at The Gathering Place and close the month with TGP’s Pride Celebration on June 29!
We’ve got a full day of events planned:
MTG Pride Commander Pods: 3 p.m.
All commander-eligible creatures have the Partner ability, signups start at 2 p.m., play begins at 3. Everybody who signs up will be entered into raffles for MTG Pride cards, including some one-of-a-kind TGP staff-made alters!
D&D one-shot: 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.
TWO time slots open for our Pride D&D one-shot! Answer the call to adventure, and begin a quest called “Curse of the Salamancer!”
A spellcasting salamander accosts an adventuring party on a Very Important Quest, and curses them to be approximately his size. He won’t turn them back from being tiny until they get his Very Important Item back!
The D&D table is a capped event at 8 people for each of the time slots. So, sign up in advance on our website to reserve your seat! The ticket includes a seat at the one shot and a $5 drink ticket!
12 p.m. ticket
6 p.m. ticket
Crafts at the Bar: 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Supplies for bracelet making and coloring books will be available at the bar. Come join us at the bar to craft, drink, and yap!
What else is happening at TGP in the near future?
- Friday, July 4: FNM Red, White and Blue (Jeskai Constructed Decks ONLY, jank ENCOURAGED)
- Sunday, July 6: CEDH Dual Land Tournament
- Sunday, July 13: MTG Modern RCQ
- Saturday, July 19: Pokéfest!
- Sunday, July 20: Summer Commander League Tournament II
- Sunday, July 20: Digimon BT-22, Cyber Eden Prerelease
- Saturday, July 26: MTG THEME DECK CASH CLASH
- Sunday, July 27: One Piece Box Break Tournament ROUND 2!!!
Got questions, concerns, wanna talk card shop? Get in touch! We’ll see you around!
TGP Dispatch: 6/17/25
This week at The Gathering Place, we’ve got an MTG Vintage Cash Tournament, a One Piece TCG BOX BREAK Tournament, a meetup for Pokémon fans and TCG players, and a whole lot more!
It’s Week 3 of Commander League’s Summer Session, shoutout to each and every League player who showed up to play at the first tournament this past weekend and a congrats to our first final table. The next tournament is Sunday, July 20! See you then! (and hopefully before then, too)
It’s also the third week of the month, which means we’re holding another Old School Thursday AND it’s time for our monthly mini painting party! Friday Night Magic is going to be another shot at racking up points for Chocobo racing, same deal for Sunday’s draft, and there’s still some Final Fantasy in stock for folks looking to snag some real neat pieces of cardboard.
Of especially interesting note this week, we’re holding a special little event squarely focused on Pokémon. Saturday, starting at 4:00 p.m., we’re specifically opening up space for Pokémon TCG players and aficionados to meet up, bring binders, trade cards, play some games of Pokémon and take a little time to get to know other Pokémon fans in the community. TGP is also using this event to gauge interest in a potential, larger, more organized Pokémon-centric event in the future — so if you want more Pokémon at the shop, come out and say hi!
As always, you can find the full list of events right here.
Quick things to keep on the calendar:
- Sunday, 6/29: MTG Commander Pride Event
- Saturday, 7/5: CEDH Dual Land Tournament
- Sunday, 7/13: MTG Modern RCQ
Thanks for checking in, and we’ll see you around!
TGP Dispatch: 6/10/25
This week at The Gathering Place, things are looking pretty stacked! The first Commander League tournament, Chocobo Racing, high-seas Flesh and Blood action, a CEDH tournament this Saturday for a Dual Land – there’s a lot on the docket!
With the Final Fantasy prerelease firmly in the rearview and Square’s powerhouse IP rotating into MTG’s Standard landscape, thing are about to get a whole lot wilder in Magic. For those who haven’t yet had a chance to play, good news is TGP is participating in the Chocobo Racing Series!
Each limited event you attend and play the new hotness that is Final Fantasy – like this week’s Friday Night Magic, for example – you accumulate points that eventually earn you Chocobo-based prizes, with the end goal being a limited-edition Chocobo pin! These prizes are only available while they last in-store, so it truly is a race! There’s another Chocobo Racing event this Sunday as well, if you want to double up.
This Saturday, TGP is hosting its CEDH monthly tournament, this go ‘round all our competition-level players are gunning for a Dual Land! $30 entry with all going to the prize pool, additional Top 4 prizing based on attendance. Here’s a TopDeck link, good luck!
Of course, CEDH isn’t the only tournament in town. Commander League’s Summer Session has its first tournament this Sunday, starting at noon. We’re only in week two, so decks are still very much in their early phases, and this is a great opportunity to test your precon out in a live environment, meet fellow League players, and hopefully make some choice trades. See you there!
Other events of note, Flesh and Blood’s Friday event is a draft of High Seas, the Digimon Evolution Cup Vol. 1 event is on Sunday, you can see everything happening this week (and this month, and further into the future) on the TGP event calendar, right here.
TGP Dispatch: 6/3/25
This week at the Gathering Place is lined up to be a busy one: there’s new Flesh and Blood out there as Gravy Bones and company take to the High Seas, the Summer Session of Commander League has officially begun and, not to bury the lead on this, but Final Fantasy’s trip down MTG memory lane is hitting this week like a truck. We’ve got sealed prerelease events all weekend, so here’s the official days/times:
(all weekly + monthly events are available on the TGP Event Calendar, of course)
Friday June 6th @ 2:30 pm and 7:00pm
Saturday June 7th @ 12pm and 4pm
Sunday June 8th @ 12pm – Two-Headed Giant
Entry to each is $35 per player, and registration is available online to any and everyone who wishes to secure their spot in advance. Just head over the TGP preorders page, and search for “Final Fantasy.” You’ll see the events right there.
Of course, there’s also the rest of the month of June to consider, so here’s what’s cooking at The Gathering Place:
- June 6/7/8 – Final Fantasy Prerelease Weekend
- Saturday, June 14 – CEDH Dual Land Tournament
- Sunday, June 15 – Commander League: Summer Session Tournament One
- Sunday, June 15 – Digimon Evolution Cup Vol. I
- Thursday, June 19 – Monthly Mini Paint Night
- Saturday, June 21 – MTG Vintage Cash Tournament
- Saturday, June 21 – Pokémon Trades + TCG Gathering
- Sunday, June 22 – One Piece BOX BREAK Tournament
- Sunday, June 29 – MTG Commander Pride Event
TGP Dispatch: 5/27/25
This week at The Gathering Place: COMMANDERJAM might be the banner item, but don’t think that’s all we’ve got cooking!
It’s a Constructed week for Sorcery, Flesh and Blood is hitting the High Seas in a swashbuckling prerelease on Friday, and One Piece is moving on up with an OP-11 prerelease on Sunday!
You’ve obviously been hearing a great deal about both COMMANDERJAM and the Summer Session of Commander League, but if you’d like to learn more about either (or both!) here’s two links to details over on the TGP website:
Commander League: Summer Session:
https://gatheringplacegames.com/2025/05/20/commander-league-summer-session/
COMMANDERJAM (includes link to signup form):
https://gatheringplacegames.com/2025/05/20/commanderjam-2025/
Worth noting, pods will be put together for COMMANDERJAM on Thursday afternoon – online signups for the event will be closed at noon. If you want to get on the list (and in for the deluxe raffles we’ll be doing during the event!) get your registration in sooner rather than later!
Here’s some dates to keep in mind:
- Tuesday, 6/3: First day of Commander League, Summer Session
- Friday, 6/6 – Sunday 6/8: Final Fantasy MTG Prerelease Weekend
- Saturday 6/14: CEDH Dual Land Tournament
- Sunday, 6/15: Digimon Evolution Cup
- Saturday, 6/21: MTG Vintage Cash Tournament
- Saturday, 6/21: Pokémon Trades + TCG Gathering
- Sunday, 6/22: One Piece BOX BREAK Tournament
- Sunday, 6/29: MTG PRIDE EVENT
TGP Dispatch: 5/20/25
Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s happening this week at The Gathering Place:
(of course, you can find the full schedule of events posted here)
Commander meetups continue on the usual days, Tuesday+Thursday, and signups for the short Commander Summer League are still very much open.
Wednesday Night Sorcery is Drafting this week, so we’re cracking packs and assembling piles starting at 7:30 p.m.
Victor hosted trivia on Friday night last week, so this week Friday Night Trivia at TGP is a Ben Creed joint. Come out and answer some questions, check in over on the trivia discord channel for details+categories, if you’re so inclined.
Saturday, the second One Piece Treasure Cup is happening at the shop. The event starts at 1:00 p.m., entry is $20, and the competition is fierce, if this past Sunday’s sessions are any indication.
Speaking of competitive tournaments, this Sunday is the long-awaited Dragonstorm Sealed RCQ. Entry is $55, Swiss Rounds with top cut to draft, and a path to the Pro Tour on the line in addition to the obvious prizes and promos.
There’s more to come today, specifically posts about the Commander Summer League and CommanderJam, so keep an eye out and I’ll see you around!
