Release roundups, event recaps, and store updates from the team.
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One weekend produced two Standard champions on two stages: Jund Sacrifice in Hartford and Orzhov Lifegain in the Arena Championship. Standard's top tier just got a lot easier to read.
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The first Saturday Pokémon League session runs October 31 at the shop, and the Halloween card show fills Bellevue the same day. Play here, shop there, and let one Saturday do both jobs.
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Captain Kirk's Magic card arrived October 24, four Star Trek Commander decks land November 13, and the Beginner Box is already canceled. Here is what to buy instead.
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Delta Reign prereleases run through November 1, a STAFF-stamped promo has the whole community guessing, and the sealed box is worth waiting for at list price.
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The October Yu-Gi-Oh! list is the biggest shakeup since 2013, and the deck that just won YCS Houston is already partly illegal under it. Bring your list to the counter before you assume anything.
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GeekGirlCon wraps downtown on Sunday and Gundam Sunday starts at the shop at 1 PM, so one afternoon covers the con floor and the card tables.
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Zero interviewed the owners: the bonsai and axolotl red flags, a twenty thousand dollar rabbit hole, a Nico Robin sale, and the one rule Drum Island runs on. People over Profit.
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A retired decorator from Woking put 42 mint Pokémon master sets in his attic in the 2000s and forgot them. This week they hammered at £1.56 million, the biggest card auction Britain has ever seen.
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Three straight weekends of Northwest card action — starting with Delta Reign prereleases today, followed by back-to-back card shows in Bellevue and Federal Way.
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One Piece at Drum Island on Friday, two card shows worth the drive, and Gundam on Sunday. Here is your Pacific Northwest card weekend, mapped.
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The biggest company in trading cards started as a basement RPG outfit run by a Boeing engineer. This is how Wizards of the Coast invented a genre, saved Dungeons and Dragons, lost Pokemon, and ended up on top of the chart it created.
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Hasbro just reported Magic's biggest quarter ever, over $600 million. The crossovers are not a gimmick. They are the growth engine.
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Pokémon Regionals return to Seattle this February, and registration is not even open yet. Here is how to start training now.
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A Redmond Town Center game store with a new local name, a 25-hour charity gaming marathon in its past, and one of the largest jigsaw puzzle inventories on the west side of the Cascades.
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A Bothell board game cafe with a five-star rating, a lending library of games, a full kitchen, and an owner chasing one goal for a decade: the greatest store on Earth. Two months before opening, a fire nearly ended it, and the community dug it out in a day.
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The reigning Pokémon world champion just won a 2,927-player Regional without losing a round. His exact 60 costs about what a booster box does.
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Three new releases land on shelves tomorrow, one each from Riftbound, Lorcana, and Pokémon. Here is what each one brings and which table it belongs at.
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In Seattle's Chinatown-International District, a family-run shop turned a taekwondo studio into a real-life Pokémon Training Gym, and the motto on the wall is "It takes a village."
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In a feature for Zulu's April newsletter, founder Matt Zaremba shared how a Thursday afternoon at Mox Bellevue rewired his brain: three hours, sixty-four bucks, and the realization that a game store could be a premium dining experience. This is the blueprint behind that inspiration—a twenty-five-thousand-square-foot Card Kingdom family store with a full restaurant, a tournament hall, and a speakeasy behind a swinging bookshelf.
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Geofenced virtual queues, hard two-per-guest caps, and non-transferable boarding passes. Disney just ran the cleanest card release of the year, and Pokemon Center should take notes.
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