BatCave Games

BatCave Games is a game store in Vancouver, Washington, at 13215 SE Mill Plain Blvd #C9, open every day from 11 AM to 10 PM. It is Vancouver's oldest game store, and it carries Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Flesh and Blood and Star Wars: Unlimited alongside board games, tabletop role-playing games and the accessories that go with them. It suits players who want a single stop for cards, dice and a game night, and anyone who prefers a shop that keeps long hours.

What's on the shelves

The shelves cover board games, card games, tabletop role-playing games, accessories and a small selection of collectibles. Card games are the center of the stock: Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Flesh and Blood and Star Wars: Unlimited.

Role-playing is well represented. Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition products are stocked, and the role-playing shelf also covers Call of Cthulhu, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Mutant Crawl Classics, Fate, Pathfinder, Warhammer Fantasy and titles from Evil Hat Productions.

Accessories include binders, card boxes, card sleeves, deck boxes, dice, dungeon master supplies, miniatures and paint. Board games run from party games and kids' titles to legacy-style games and expansions and add-ons. The store also stocks Funko figures, Marvel merchandise, apparel, books, and snacks and beverages for the table. Escape room items are part of the range as well.

Magic: The Gathering and Friday Night Magic

Magic: The Gathering is the game with the most visible event activity. The store runs Friday Night Magic in both Commander and Modern, each with a $6 entry, plus a Sunday Commander night at the same $6. Entry tickets for these nights can be bought ahead online.

Star Trek, the upcoming Magic set, has its own program at the store. Prerelease events carry ticket prices from $39.99 to $64.99, and a Star Trek draft night is offered at $119.99. Preorders are open across the product line:

Hours and getting there

The store keeps the same hours all seven days.

The late close makes it one of the easier places in the area to fit in an evening game after work.

The local scene

Several other stores sit close by in Vancouver. GAMEPLAY and Movie Central is about 0.1 miles away and Double Jump Video Games has a new location about 0.2 miles away, with a second Double Jump listing about 0.9 miles out. Lucky Breaks Sports Cards is about 1.5 miles away, and Wayward City Games about 1.8 miles, which makes a card-shop crawl through the area easy to plan on foot or by a short drive.