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
October
Product Release(s) in October: Riftbound Radiance
Sunday Special MTG Drafts for October:
Sunday, 10/4 — RTR Block Special (Return to Ravnica, Gatecrash, Dragon’s Maze) — $25 entry
Sunday, 10/11 — Murders at Karlov Manor — $25 entry
Sunday, 10/18 — Duskmourn: House of Horror — $30 entry
The Gathering Place MTG Commander League XI
September 22 — December 19
Beginning on the Autumnal Equinox and running through the wintry days of December, this year’s flagship iteration of Commander League is a new chapter in TGP’s signature event and a great opportunity to create a deck that’s all your own and battle-tested to be a tried and true winner!
All the details on Commander League XI
Girly Pop Magic Commander Night
Thursday, October 1, 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, October 3, 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!
$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)
Flesh and Blood ProQuest London
Sunday, October 4, 12:00 p.m.
The road to London’s ProQuest 2026 continues, with the best FAB players in our neck of the woods battling it out for a shot at the title and a place on the roster to compete on the highest stage possible for Flesh and Blood! To play in this qualifier, you’ll be looking at $50 entry, and TGP will have all the usual prizes and promos on hand. We’ll see you there, and good luck to all!
Registration and More Information
One Piece Extra Grand Battle
Sunday, October 4, 12:00 p.m.
$20 entry per player, and a rollicking good time on the high seas as another One Piece TCG Extra Grand Battle! Rotation restrictions fall away as every One Piece TCG set since the very beginning is on the table, and the decks fly fast and furious in Bandai’s best-selling card game!
Registration and More Information
D&D Learn to Play
Wednesday, October 7, 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!
FNM: Reality Echoes Pick-2 Draft
Friday, October 9, 7:00 p.m.
There’s some special events on the docket surrounding the release of Reality Fracture, and the first one hosted at TGP is the “Reality Echoes” Draft — a pick-two FNM event, and you can read all the details on how it works straight from WotC right here. We’ll have as much as we can in the way of promos and prizing, and players can expect two packs per win across three Swiss rounds, and entry per player is the same as regular FNM Draft: just $25! Signup is in-person only, there will be a sheet at the bar. See you there!
Reality Fracture 1-Slot Sealed RCQ
Saturday, October 10, 12:00 p.m.
$55 entry per player, six packs to crack and build a 40-card Sealed and a cut to Top Eight Draft to finish out the tournament and determine who’s on the path to the Pro Tour and the highest level of competitive Magic: The Gathering!
This is MTG at its finest, and your only opportunity at TGP to score an RCQ slot without building out a deck! Come ready to rumble, and good luck!
Registration and More Information
MTG Modern Cash Tournament: Miracle Grow
Saturday, October 10, 12:00 p.m.
The Gathering Place runs monthly tournaments rotating between Modern, Legacy and Vintage — and this month, it’s all about Modern!
Entry is $30 per player, and that entry goes into the prize pool. More players, more prizing, more rewards for playing 60-card MTG as Garfield & Co. intended!
Registration and More Information
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:
Registration and More Information
Riftbound Radiance Prerelease
Sunday, October 18, 12:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 p.m.
The new set of Riftbound is almost here, and the release of Radiance means a new set of LoL adapted to a TCG environment! $30 entry per player, with prizing powered by promos and packs straight from Riftbound HQ. Expect some amount of scaling with attendance, and if you miss the Sunday prerelease you’ll have a second shot on Wednesday!
Registration and More Information, link coming soon!
cEDH Black Lotus Invitational Qualifier
Saturday, October 24, 12:00 p.m.
Nuts and bolt out of the way first:
- Moxfield Decklist required
- Full proxy friendly
- $50 entry
- 100 player cap
- 4 80-minute Swiss Rounds
The winner of the tournament gets a Mox Diamond, and a shot at an Unlimited Black Lotus in the final tournament of the series! The Black Lotus Invitational is one of the premier cEDH tournaments in the US, and The Gathering Place is proud to be part of the chase!
Registration and More Information
cEDH Black Lotus Invitational Qualifier: Second Chance!
Sunday, October 25, 12:00 p.m.
Second verse, same as the first, a second chance for anyone who wants to run it back!
The winner of the tournament gets a Mox Diamond, and a shot at an Unlimited Black Lotus in the final tournament of the series! The Black Lotus Invitational is one of the premier cEDH tournaments in the US, and The Gathering Place is proud to be part of the chase!
- Moxfield Decklist required
- Full proxy friendly
- $50 entry
- 100 player cap
- 4 80-minute Swiss Rounds
Registration and More Information
Halloween Weekend at The Gathering Place!
Friday and Saturday, October 30 + 31
This year, the celebration(s) for Halloweekend at The Gathering Place extend beyond the Innistrad Chaos Drafts and into two days of spooky festivities! We’re gearing up for a Cursed Carnival on Friday and the traditional TGP Halloween Party on Saturday, and we’ll be putting out more details when we’re ready!
MTGPunks Series: October Premodern
Saturday, October 31, 12:00 p.m.
If you pine for the days of yore, when Magic: The Gathering cards had proper borders and all these newfangled characters and doodads weren’t muddyin’ up yer Em Tee Gee, Premodern might just be the place for you!
Premodern is a non-rotating and classic MTG format from Fourth Edition to Scourge, from the late ’90s to the early ’00s, and it’s proven to be a community-created fan-favorite hit in the North Carolina MTG scene and beyond!
Entry for the tournament is $30 per player, that entry goes to the prize pool, and more players participating means a bigger pot for the Premodern People’s Champ!
(Premodern at TGP is a full-proxy-friendly tournament — all proxies must be clearly identifiable and representative of the intended card.)
Registration and More Information
November
Product Release(s) in November
Sunday Special MTG Drafts for November
[Drafts]
The Gathering Place MTG Commander League XI
September 22 — December 19
Beginning on the Autumnal Equinox and running through the wintry days of December, this year’s flagship iteration of Commander League is a new chapter in TGP’s signature event and a great opportunity to create a deck that’s all your own and battle-tested to be a tried and true winner!
All the details on Commander League XI
Girly Pop Magic Commander Night
Thursday, November 5, 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, November 14 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!
$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)
