The Gathering Place Events Calendar
If you’re looking to book space for an event and host your Gathering at our Place, get in touch using this form.
If you’ve got any questions, feel free to get in touch via email, ask a question on our Discord server, or call the shop directly during business hours at +1 (984) 999-4548
For the visually-inclined planners among us, here’s our always-updated Google Sheets calendar, in friendly and familiar visual calendar format.
Monthly Calendar for The Gathering Place on Google Sheets
The lion’s share of this page is devoted to a details-based breakdown of the special events happening month-over-month: big tournaments, prereleases, specialty offerings, all that.
Click the link below this for details on everything regularly happening: weekly locals, regular meetups, that sort of thing.
Weekly, Monthly and Regularly-Occurring Events at TGP
September
Product Release(s) in September: MTG Reality Fracture
D&D Learn to Play
Wednesday, September 2, 6:00 p.m.
The first Wednesday of each month, TGP DM extraordinaire Kelly Trusdell 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!
Girly Pop Magic Commander Night
Thursday, September 3, 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
MTG Friday Night Magic Special Edition: MTG x The Hobbit “The Heart of The Mountain”
Friday, September 4, 7:00 p.m.
Heart of the Mountain is a casual Commander event that pits players against one another as they battle for control of the Heart of the Mountain, the legendary Arkenstone. The first player to deal combat damage to another becomes the first owner of the Arkenstone. Players may then claim the Arkenstone emblem for themselves by dealing combat damage to the owner, gaining bonuses while in possession of it—and also becoming the primary target at the table!
Each turn that a player controls the Arkenstone, during their upkeep phase they increase their ownership count by one (they do not lose this count if someone takes the Arkenstone from them). If a player’s ownership count reaches three, they win the game.
Here’s all the details for the event, straight from WotC!
cEDH Monthly Dual Land Tournament
Saturday, September 5, 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 tournament is on Saturday, August 1, starting at noon.
$40 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)
MTG Vintage Tournament: Back 2 The Academy
Saturday, September 12, 12:00 p.m.
Tournaments at The Gathering Place rotate between Modern, Legacy and Vintage. This September, it’s all about the Vintage format of MTG!
Entry is $30 per player, contributing to the prize pool. More players, more prizing! This go ’round, you’ll have a shot at a classic Tolarian Academy straight outta TGP high-end inventory as part of the prize pool!
Vintage play at TGP is full-proxy permitted! (proxies must be clearly representative of the intended card and contain all information the official printing does in an easy-to-identify fashion).
Registration and More Information
MTG x The Hobbit: Two-Headed Giant Commander Event
Sunday, September 13, 12:00 p.m.
Play The Hobbit bigstyle, and all your Commanders better be from a LOTR set! We’re running the WotC 2HG Commander event, but with a TGP twist: all Commanders MUST be from either The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) or The Hobbit (HOB)!
Two-Headed Giant Commander Night is a Commander event in which players can earn promo cards by pairing up to battle other two-player teams. Each player has their own 100-card Commander deck, but they share a 60-point life pool. Play follows the normal Two-Headed Giant rules.
Here’s some details from Wizards of The Coast, in their official post for the events series: click here
MTGPunks Series: Pauper Tournament “Falling Petals”
Saturday, September 19, 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 $30, entry goes back to the prize pool, and the MTGPunks tournament series continues in Pauper this month with a playset of Tempest-era Lotus Petals from TGP inventory as part of the prize pool as future property of the Pauper King!
Registration and More Information
Gundam TCG: First Anniversary Event
Saturday, September 19, 1:00 p.m.
The Gundam TCG has taken off, and now after one calendar year of collectively getting in the robot, Bandai is celebrating with an anniversary tournament and the first-ever serialized cards in Gundam! Here’s details on the event from Bandai!
Registration and More Information
Riftbound Summoner’s Skirmish
Sunday, September 20, 12:00 p.m.
Another shot at competitive local Riftbound, another chance to continue fine-tuning your deck and playstyle! 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!
Registration and More Information
The Gathering Place MTG Commander League XI
Begins Tuesday, September 22
The eleventh season of TGP’s signature event arrives this fall! Literally, on the Autumnal Equinox!
We haven’t posted all the details yet, but when the announcement post goes up, it’ll be linked right here along with all the other details.
MTG: Reality Fracture Prerelease Weekend
Magic: The Gathering’s next big event set is squarely focused on what’s been going on in-universe: namely, Jace’s ongoing issues with how the world(s) work, and his attempts to crack the firmament wide open and create a new, “better” reality. Colors shifted, alignments and allegiances altered, so much is so different throughout Reality Fracture’s set of cards, and a great deal of Magic won’t be the same once some of these possibilities are brought into colors where they’ve never been before!
Here’s Wizards’ breakdown of the set, and the prerelease event schedule at TGP will be the usual deal:
Friday
- 2:30 p.m. Prerelease Sealed
- 7:00 p.m. FNM Prerelease Sealed
- as part of the FNM offering, TGP adds all 3-0 players during the FNM prerelease to a special raffle for a Booster Box!
Saturday
Sunday
Expect more details in the near future, as we’ve got ’em, and we’ll see you there!
October
Product Release(s) in September: MTG Reality Fracture
MTG Planeswalker Party and Tournament
Sunday, October 11, 12:00 p.m.
Functionally two events for the price of one, a party, a celebration of all things MTG, of planeswalkers old, new, and otherwise! Come one, come all, for the TGPlaneswalker event of the season!
On Sunday, October 11, starting at noon, the MTG Planeswalker Party (and Tournament!) provides a playground for either of the wolves inside you to hang out and play some Magic: The Gathering. If you’re casually inclined, we’ll have tables and pods for you to try out some weird and wacky decks helmed by any Planeswalker card you’d like. If you’re more into the competitive side of things, we’ll also be holding an official tournament at the same time!
The base rules for each are simple: the Planeswalker Party is full-proxy friendly, follows the typical rules of Commander (and its associated banlist) with a couple notable exceptions to those rules.
- Your deck must have a Planeswalker as its Commander
- this does not include creates that flip or transform into Planeswalkers
- The following cards are banned, in addition to the standard Commander banlist
- Teferi, Time Raveler
- Dihada, Binder of Wills
- Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
- The Immortal Sun
If you’re playing in the casual zone of the party, that’s it! We’ll have a signup sheet, we’ll have prizing for all pods, and we’ll be doing raffles throughout the day for any and all Planeswalker Party attendees, tournament players and casual enjoyers alike.
If you’d like to play in the tournament, you can expect:
- $20 entry per player
- cEDH level rules enforcement
- still full-proxy friendly
- Store credit from all buy-in to top cut, depending on attendance
Check out details on TopDeck, right here:
