The Gathering Place Events Calendar
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Monthly Calendar for The Gathering Place
The first section here showcases the Monthly and Weekly events we hold, scroll past it for the special stuff. Big tournaments, prereleases, specialty events, all that is down there.
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Recurring Locals/Tournaments/Events at TGP
Monthly CEDH Dual Land Tournament
The first Saturday of 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!
$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!
The “first Saturday” is pretty reliable, but make sure you check the TGP Event Calendar for details.
Event registration is run through TopDeck.
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.
Monthly Rotating MTG Multi-Format Cash Tournament (Modern/Vintage/Legacy)
Each month at The Gathering Place, there’s a different MTG cash tourney! $30 buy in for all players, all entry back in the prize pool. The format rotates month by month between Modern, Legacy and Vintage. Cash tournaments always start at noon, check out the TGP Event Calendar for details and to see what’s firing this month!
Monthly Rotating MTGPunks Cash Tournament (Premodern/Pauper/Old School)
The monthly MTG cash tourneys are getting a fan-made upgrade in 2026! The Gathering Place is expanding the Monthly Cash Tournament series from Modern, Legacy and Vintage to include what we’re calling the “MTGPunks” tournaments. Also on a monthly rotation, players can jam Premodern, Pauper and Old School formats month 0ver month in a clash for cash!
$30 entry per player, same as the traditional tourneys at TGP, with all entry right back in the prize pool.
Here’s a link to dates and details!
Commander / EDH Nights at TGP
What began with Adam Staley and Sheldon Menery decades ago as a fun way to play off-beat Magic has, over time, become the most popular way to play MTG. Commander, or Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH) if you’ve been around the block a few times, is the Magic: The Gathering format to beat, these days. Everybody plays it, it’s fun, it’s social, it has potential to be absolutely insane in all the best ways. For anyone who needs a primer, here’s one from Wizards.
Commander Nights at The Gathering place are three times a week: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays at 3:00 p.m.
Make sure to check in on the TGP Event Calendar to see what else is happening on any given day! Tournaments and such often happen on Saturdays, prerelease weekends can be a little packed, and it’s worth taking a look if you’re expecting to have space for large groups. That said, TGP does have a whole lot of tables and a whole lot of space.
Commander Meetups / Nights have free entry, free promos / prize support for all pods, so come by to jam some casual (or competitive, depending on the pod! remember, communication is part of the game!) MTG Commander, hang with your friends, make new friends, all of the above! (if you’re looking for a group / pod to play with, the TGP Discord is an excellent resource)
MTG Friday Night Magic Draft
Since 1996, Friday Night Magic has been a part of MTG’s community fabric. From the Pro Tour to the kitchen table, FNM is a huge part of how a whole lot of people play the game. Every Friday, FNM at TGP kicks off at 7:00 with a draft. Often, we’re drafting whatever is hot in Standard — but we’re not shy about pulling something cool out of the vault downstairs for any given Friday if that’s something folks are into. Keep an eye on the TGP site and socials for specialty drafts and FNM events, and expect $35 buy-in, two packs per win, and Swiss rounds across three pairings. See you there!
MTG Locals
Magic: The Gathering has no shortage of formats, fun ways to play, communities to contribute to and ways to get weird in your specific way. We’ve covered Commander and FNM on this page so far, so here’s the other MTG Locals you’ll find at The Gathering Place:
Modern Locals: Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.
Premodern Locals: Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.
Legacy Locals: Fridays at 7:00 p.m.
Old School Thursdays: The first and third Thursday of every month, the TGP Old School crew kicks it with Old School Thursdays, kicking back with some ’90s MTG, a slice of Alpha Pie pizza and a cold beer. It rocks. You should check it out. As far as format goes, TGP plays Eternal Central Old School.
Rotating Standard / cHaOs dRaFt: Sundays at 3:00 p.m. TGP holds an MTG draft, swapping week-over-week between Standard draft and a Chaos draft. Check the calendar to see what’s on for this week!
One Piece Locals
One Piece locals happen twice a week at The Gathering Place! Bandai’s high-seas TCG based on Oda’s rollicking saga of piracy and high-stakes high-seas tomfoolery has become one of the premier games played at TGP, so come play Constructed One Piece every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Come jam those decks with friends old and new!
$10 buy-in, all entry back in the prize pool, converted directly into pack prizing to Top 3 (based on attendance) — also, promos for participation and tournament winner!
Gundam Locals
Bandai TCGs have another winner with the Gundam card game! If you’ve played One Piece, some elements may be familiar, but the Gundam TCG plays out a little differently than you might expect. Pilots, Mobile Suits, shields, bases, it’s fast and furious mech-battling action! Gundam Locals at TGP are every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. — $10 buy in, all entry back in the prize pool, pack prizing to Top 3 (based on attendance) number of rounds based on attendance — also, promos for participation and tournament winner!
Riftbound Nexus Night (Locals)
League of Legends has become a great deal more than a MOBA — from eSports audiences to Netflix flagship TV, it was only a matter of time before a TCG got in on the action. Riftbound is that TCG, and so far it seems like it’s living up to the hype! TGP hosts Riftbound locals every other Sunday at 1:00 p.m. (check the calendar to confirm dates!) and these Nexus Nights have started to go toe-to-toe with One Piece in terms of sheer attendance. Prizes are most often offered in store credit at the moment, since Riftbound packs have been relatively hard to come by and we’d like to save as many as possible for folks to play the game. Check in on TGP socials for full schedules, prereleases, and everything else related to Riftbound at TGP!
Flesh and Blood Armory
Flesh and Blood is the one-one-one fighting game inspired TCG that’s found some real footing at The Gathering Place. The local FAB community is active, competitive and whole lot of fun. FAB Armory is the FNM equivalent: every Friday night at 7:30, FAB players gather at TGP for a recurring mix of casual and competitive gameplay. Armory events are known for special prizes, cool promos and big swings for a TCG so relatively young. $10 buy-in per player, two packs per win, and more! What’s not to love about a card game with a format called “Ultimate Pit Fight”?
Sorcery: Contested Realm Locals
Sorcery: Contested Realm is a strategy-based TCG with a board constructed more akin to chess than a traditional TCG battlefield. Placement matters, along with resources and spells, and it’s a throwback to early card games in more ways than one! Gorgeous traditional art, wild chases, one type of booster pack, Sorcery is a great time for anyone who looks at these cards and goes “yeah, I be that game is pretty cool” — which, to be fair, is everybody!
Sorcery locals at TGP are every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. and have a strong community organization component. Constructed or Draft, depending on what the people want and what’s in stock at the shop. $15 entry for Constructed, $25 entry for draft, pack-per-win prizing and bonus promos and prizes as we have them and depending on attendance.
Dungeons and Dragons and TTRPGs at The Gathering Place
The Gathering Place has a steady cohort of travelers, adventures and campaigners across all skill levels and more games than just D&D. The TTRPG community at TGP thrives in the TGP Discord server, but for anyone looking to start their journeys we offer a couple curated events that don’t require hammering out specific details with a playgroup before even showing up for the first session.
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!
D&D One-Shot Campaign(s)
Thursdays are D&D one-shots at TGP! Starting at 6:00 p.m. and open to all, these free events welcome players of all experience levels, figurative and literal. Our grab bag of Dungeon Masters, our colorful rotating cast, is here to guide you through a one-shot session where you can play something new or continue your own anthology with your character. If you don’t have a character, you can show up and make one! Just arrive a little early to allow the extra time for that. Check in on the TGP Discord for details and introductions, and sign up day-of on the in-store event sheet!
D&D Combat Arena
Sundays at The Gathering Place are leveling up! Thanks to the wonderful work our DMs do, we’re delighted to announce something new: combat-focused D&D on the first and last Sunday of each month!
Sessions start at 2:00 p.m. and are weekly combat-focused one-shots. Arenas, gauntlets, anime tournament arcs, think fist meeting face and blade meeting bone. Crunchy combat with real consequences, where nobody’s safe and everything is fair game!
There will be a physical sign-up sheet at the bar on the first and last Sunday of each month, and each DM running a combat session will have a six-person limit for their table. Spots are first-come, first-served. Come with a Level 3 character prepared, or show up a bit early to roll up a new one alongside your DM and other players.
See you there, brave adventurers!
Other TGP Happenings
Trivia, karaoke, comedy, board games! There’s plenty at The Gathering Place that doesn’t hinge on windmill slamming pretty cardboard onto tables or dice rolling and role-playing with friends old and new.
Check in on the TGP Calendar to see what’s happening when, and for any special one-offs we might be hosting!
Monthly Event Calendar for The Gathering Place
June
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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/
July
Product Release(s) in July: Riftbound: Vendetta, Gundam TCG GD-05
D&D Learn to Play
Wednesday, July 1, 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, July 2, 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, July 4, 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.
Link:
Event registration is run through TopDeck. (https://topdeck.gg/thegatheringplace)
MTG Modern RCQ High Roller Tournament “Ocelot” (Monthly MTG Series)
Saturday, July 11, 12:00 p.m.
Modern is a tight, quick, cohesive way to play competitive Magic. Encompassing decades of MTG history and comprised of the landscape born from experiencing Magic: The Gathering’s growing pains, Modern is a slower format in terms of cards added and lack of rotation, but much faster in every other way.
Monthly cash tournaments at The Gathering Place rotate between Modern, Legacy and Vintage, and June it’s clearly all about Modern! Cash tourneys, RCQs, the works! While Legacy and Vintage are both full-proxy friendly at TGP, Modern is zero proxy. All cards are required to be the real deal.
For this tournament, entry is $30 per player, entry contributes to the prize pool, so more players means bigger payouts. TGP will also continue adding bonus prizing to the cash tourney series, since folks have been AMPED about that recently and there’s certainly plenty to choose from when deciding on Modern-relevant prizing! For this tournament, that extra prizing comes in the form of the special Store Champ full-art Ocelot Pride!
MTG RCQ: Sealed
Sunday, July 18, 11:30 a.m.
$55 entry per player, MTG Marvel Super Heroes packs. Six packs per player, Top cuts to a Draft. This is a one-slot RCQ at CompREL, so come prepared to play!
MTG Premodern Cash Tournament (MTGPunks Series)
Saturday, July 25, 12:00 p.m.
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 this year, and The Gathering Place is no exception. It’s been a great entry into our MTGPunks series, and that continues in July!
Entry is $30 per player, entry goes into the prize pool, and bonus prizes from the TGP Dungeon are certainly still in play! For this month’s Premodern tournament, the extra prize is a foil FNM printing Mogg Fanatic!
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Riftbound: Vendetta Prerelease Event
Sunday, July 26, 1:00 p.m.
$30 entry per player, promo kit provided, pack per win.
Event Details + Registration
Gundam TCG GD-05 Prerelease Event
Sunday, July 26, 1:00 p.m.
$30 entry per player, promo kit provided, pack per win.
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