Opening fall 2027 · Hickory Creek, Texas
Building community through games, and helping others.
Transparency
Buy rates, event fees and prize structures are published — wall and website — and identical for everyone.
Giving Back
A portion of profits goes back out every year, to local nonprofits and to our own customers as free events and free product. We disclose the dollar figure annually.
These rates are identical for every customer. We never deviate, up or down.
Events outlined in amber are free, with prizes paid by the store out of the Player 5 Pledge.
Main event
Magic: The Gathering® · Commander
Brackets 1–3 and brackets 4–5 run in separate pods. Same prize structure for both.
Player 5 · free
Magic: The Gathering
Bring a deck that isn't working. No purchase, no appointment.
Main event
Magic: The Gathering · Limited
Side event
Magic: The Gathering · Commander
Brackets 1–3 and brackets 4–5 run in separate pods. Same prize structure for both.
Side event
Magic: The Gathering & Riftbound™
Store credit on trade-ins goes from 70% to 75%. Cash stays at 50%.
Main event
Magic: The Gathering · Modern
Main event
Magic: The Gathering · Limited or Commander
Main event
Riftbound
Player 5 · free
Riftbound
Loaner decks provided. Bring nothing.
Player 5 is the person who couldn't be here today, and needs a helping hand.
A portion of profits are given back every year — half to local nonprofits, and half to our community.
Half out
To nonprofits in Denton County. Members nominate some of them, and we publish every recipient.
Half back
To our customers. Free entry to prize-supported events, and free product — decks, sleeves and packs put into the hands of people who need them to get playing.
At the counter we'll offer to round your purchase up to the nearest dollar. That goes to the Player 5 Foundation's endowment.
Every March, once the books close on the year, we post exactly what the portion came to, where it went, and what the free events and free product cost. One page, on the wall and on this site.
Twice a year the room does something bigger than a Friday night. The store funds every dollar of prizing out of the give-back half of the pledge, entry is a donation rather than a fee, and there are 24 seats. You don't buy your way in.
March, every year · Competitive · seat earned
One day, 24 seats, every dollar of prizing paid by the store. Entry is a donation to that year's nonprofit, so what you play for is worth more than what you put in. Seats are earned over the year before it.
Fall, every year · New players · seat open
No points, no qualifying. Every player brings somebody who has never played, and the store covers their deck, their teaching and their prizing. If the Open is what you earn, this is what you do with it.
Points run on the calendar year and reset on 1 January, which leaves ten weeks to publish the standings and hand out the invitations before March. Every way of earning is posted below, and none of them require you to spend a dollar.
| Action | Points | Cap |
|---|---|---|
| Play a main event | 1 | 2 per week |
| Round up at the counter | 1 | 15 per year |
| Match a deck in the Deck Drive | 3 | 5 per year |
| Judge or score an event you're not playing | 3 | — |
| Teach at Sunday learn-to-play | 4 | — |
| Bring someone who has never played | 4 | — |
Sixty is set so that giving outruns turning up. Play a main event every week and nothing else and you finish the year on 55. Play half as often but teach one Sunday a month and you finish on 68.
| Earned at 60 points | 16 |
|---|---|
| Held by the store | 4 |
| Given by the Pod | 4 |
The four given seats are the point of the whole thing: anyone who earned a seat can hand one to somebody who didn't. Standings go up as they change, so nobody has to guess where they stand, and if more than sixteen of you clear 60 we add a flight rather than cut anyone.
For gamers, not speculators.
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 12–8 |
| Friday | 12–10 |
| Saturday | 12–10 |
| Sunday | 12–6 |
TBD
Hickory Creek, TX 75065
Hickory Creek · Lake Dallas · Corinth · Shady Shores · Highland Village