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Weekly Annoucements Lorwyn Eclipsed is on the horizon, finally, and prerelease weekend at The Gathering Place is set. Preregistrations are now available online, right over on the TGP Online Store! What is on the website is a ticket for The Lorwyn Eclipsed events. Each player receives a released pack, and each event will run with two (2) packs per win across three (3) rounds. The price to preregister is $5. $5 is the hold charge to save your spot. The full price of the event is $35. If you are pr

Weekly Annoucements Hello, friends! Today, Tuesday, 12/23, is The Gathering Place’s last day of business for 2025. We’ll be closed for nine days — Wednesday, 12/24 through Thursday, 1/1 — and reopening with normal business hours on Friday, 1/2. To that end, here’s some stuff to know as we wrap up the year: TGP online orders and systems are being cleared for the new year. Any unpaid orders will be returned to our inventory over the break. If you would like to reorder those items in the future, ou

Weekly Annoucements Monthly Event Calendar for The Gathering Place 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 o

Weekly Annoucements Hello and, formally, welcome to 2026 from The Gathering Place. It’s our first full week back and January is already shaping up to be an incredibly busy month. There’s a lot to talk about, we won’t get to all of it today, you’ll see more updates here on the TGP site and through our various channels of communication (chief among them, the TGP Discord). So be on the lookout for all that action. Here’s what we’re focusing on right now, in the immediate. 1. 2026 Changes and Update

Weekly Annoucements Lorwyn: Eclipsed is a return to a long-time favorite MTG plane, and Lorwyn: Eclipsed (ECL) is set up for some real classic Magic: The Gathering action. In celebration of Magic’ return to Lorwyn in the wake of Eventide and a new exploration of what exactly has been going on over there for all these years, The Gathering Place is running a two-week “Lorwyn League” with some… relatively special conditions. Playing a Commander-style format with 60-card decks (if only there was a n

Weekly Annoucements This week at The Gathering Place, obviously the big banner item is the Lorwyn: Eclipsed prerelease! All the details and everything you need for that are in one convenient post, which you can find here. As a quick reminder, here’s when the tournaments are happening:

Prerelease Sealed 7:00 p.m.

Prerelease Sealed 4:00 p.m.

Worth noting — and it’ll be talked about in the trivia channel on the TGP Discord, as well — that trivia this Friday will be bumped back to a 10:30 start time, but it’ll stick with the same six-question rounds format. All other trivia rules and regulations apply, as do the usual prizes. See you there. Other important news, a whole lot of new inventory has been added on the TGP Online Store! There’s a bunch of hot singles in your area, including some heat from the Avatar: The Last Airbender UB se

Weekly Annoucements This week at The Gathering Place, we’re still positively buzzing in the shadow of the Lorwyn: Eclipsed release! All the prerelease tournaments were popping, we’ve seen some stellar stuff cracked in-store already, and the events focused on Lorwyn’s unique set and setting continue on TGP tabletops this week. FNM Draft will be Lorwyn: Eclipsed [ECL] and we’ll keep packs on the shelves as long as we’ve got ’em! Boxes are still for sale, and Collector boosters of [ECL] are $40 at

Weekly Annoucements Though it doesn’t always feel like it, The Gathering Place has been opening its doors for beers, board games and good ol’ fashioned TCG action since 2022. In that time, TGP has become known for a couple things — and one of those things is, without a doubt, Commander League. For anyone reading this who might be unfamiliar with Commander League, it goes a little something like this: Each player starts with a precon Commander deck of their choosing. Throughout League’s entire se

Weekly Annoucements This week at The Gathering Place, we’re defrosting just enough to get ready for another potential round of snowfall this weekend and – in the meantime – we’re getting ready for the end of January and the beginning of next month! Perhaps the most immediate news to highlight is the rescheduling of the Final Final Fantasy event. Originally slated for this upcoming Sunday, 2/1, we’ve made the decision to preemptively reschedule it. We’ve heard a good bit about folks traveling a w

Weekly Annoucements The die is cast, and we’ve decided to call it. Predictions for North Carolina’s weekend weather are looking to be well below freezing temperatures, significant precipitation, and potentially several inches of snow. With that in mind, our plans are changing. Tomorrow, Friday, 1/30, The Gathering Place will be closed in solidarity with individuals and organizations across the United States seeking a fairer, better, brighter future. We invite everyone in our community to spend t

To all, we wish you a pleasant, merry, bright, warm and happy holiday. May your pulls be incredible and your top deck draws immaculate. We’ll see you in 2026, and we’ll keep doing our best to be the game store, card shop and local bar North Carolina needs. MTG Vintage Cash Tournament (Monthly MTG Series) MTG Five-Color Pride Tournament Lorwyn Eclipsed Prerelease at The Gathering Place

Weekly Annoucements Hello, friends! It’s time to talk about what’s happening at The Gathering Place! It’s the first week of a new month, so there’s a full boat of announcements to make and happenings to go over. Best we start with what kicked off literally today: the Beginner-Friendly Commander League! For anyone who’s not acquainted, Commander League has been a staple at TGP for a long time. When the sun set on Commander League Season X, we decided after ten iterations it was worth changing thi

Weekly Annoucements A long-standing tradition at The Gathering Place has been the monthly MTG cash tourneys. We started with a rotating schedule of Modern, Vintage and Legacy, we added CEDH monthly with a Dual Land in the prize pool every month, and now we’re expanding to even broader horizons with what we’re calling the MTGPunks series! The “punk” in MTGPunks comes from the fact each of these monthly cash tournaments is a highlight for a beloved community-oriented format. We’ve got Premodern, O

Weekly Annoucements This week at The Gathering Place: February continues, the Beginner-Friendly Commander League gets cooking good and proper, we talk tournaments and shows this weekend and we prepare for the arrival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! As always, make sure you check out the Events Page and the TGP Calendar Sheet for everything happening in the shop now, later, and through the rest of the month / year! Here’s what’s running this week, outside of the regular weekly locals and rec

Weekly Annoucements This week at The Gathering Place, we’ve got a MTG Premodern Cash Tournament, a Sealed one-slot RCQ for any competitive Magic players in the hunt for glory, a Chaos Draft Friday Night Magic and a bonus round of Chaos Draft action for the especially adventurous firing on Monday. A real highlight for us this week is how hard the team in the distro dungeon downstairs has been working. To directly witness their triumph and to peruse the wares they’ve worked to make available, crui

Weekly Annoucements RCQ Season opens up for 2026 at The Gathering Place with the first three tournaments we’re hosting for one-slot RCQ play. Two are Lorwyn Sealed, one is Standard Constructed, and here’s the details for each. All of them are run through Companion / Event Link, players will be expected to abide by all tournament protocol and procedure and play will be conducted at CompREL level. Here’s the details for these first three tournaments: MTG RCQ (Lorwyn Sealed) Date / Time: 2/22 @ 11: