Pink Elephant Games and Cafe

Pink Elephant Games and Cafe is a card and tabletop store at 2431 W Pawnee St in Wichita, Kansas, that pairs a play space with an in-store cafe serving food and drink. It carries Pokémon, Disney Lorcana, Flesh and Blood, Digimon Card Game, Dragon Ball Super Card Game and Magic: The Gathering, and it is known locally for its Friday Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments. It suits players who want a table, a meal and an organized event under one roof.

What's on the shelves

The store stocks six games: Pokémon, Disney Lorcana, Flesh and Blood, Digimon Card Game, Dragon Ball Super Card Game and Magic: The Gathering, where Commander is the focus. New releases go on the shelves and on sale as they arrive. Smaller card games with play communities are also supported, among them My Hero Academia, Gate Ruler, Legion, Grand Archive, Shadowverse and Song of Ice and Fire.

The cafe

The cafe serves food and drink in the store, so a long event night does not require a trip out for dinner. For several weeks in summer 2023 the store ran community thank-you promotions, giving 20% off food to educators and students at Wichita State University and public schools in the area, and 25% off to Sedgwick County first responders. It also donated 26 pizzas to a local machinist union, firefighters and county EMS.

Weekly play

The Friday tournaments are capped at 24 players, so spots are reserved early in the week.

Organized play and events

Yu-Gi-Oh! is the store's signature program. The Friday tournaments date to November 2020, when the store crowned its first champion, and the store keeps standings for the season. In November 2022 the store hosted a Yu-Gi-Oh! Regional in Wichita, capped at 150 players and expected to fill, with no room for spectators on the day.

Hours and getting there

The store sits at 2431 W Pawnee St in Wichita.

History

The store moved to its current address from a smaller space, and the new location has more than twice the play space of the old one. The move came with a promise of more events to follow, and the Friday Yu-Gi-Oh! nights and the 2022 Regional took place in that larger room.

The local scene

Several other card and hobby stores sit within a few miles in Wichita. Mana Vault Casual Gaming & Collectibles is the closest at 0.9 miles, followed by Oliver's Sports Cards MMRBL and Nifty Nitch Collectables-More at about a mile each. Air Capital Comic Convention is 1.4 miles away and Billards & Games is 2.3 miles away, which makes a short card-and-comics crawl easy to put together.