Watsontcg

Watsontcg is a trading card store at 2125 Front St in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, built around sealed product for the big card games: Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, One Piece Card Game, Disney Lorcana and Star Wars: Unlimited. It also carries Riftbound and a run of smaller games, and it runs a spend-based raffle and daily deals. It suits players and collectors who buy product by the box and want a local shop that hosts prereleases and drafts.

What's on the shelves

Pokémon is the deepest section. The store stocks Elite Trainer Boxes, including Pokémon Center versions, along with booster boxes, booster bundles, collection boxes, booster packs, tins, chests and premade decks. Japanese and Chinese booster boxes and packs are carried as well.

Magic: The Gathering is the other large category. Play, collector and set booster packs and boxes are in stock, along with decks, bundles, Secret Lairs and Vaults. The pack selection reaches back to older sets such as Dominaria Remastered and Kaldheim and forward to current releases like Final Fantasy and Marvel's Super Heroes. Magic: The Gathering Star Trek decks and a collector booster box are open for preorder, with shipping set for 11-13.

One Piece is sold as Japanese booster packs and boxes plus decks. Riftbound has booster packs, boxes and decks, and the Radiance booster box is limited to 3 per customer. Disney Lorcana covers decks and boxes such as the Hyperia City booster box. Star Wars: Unlimited has starter decks.

Other games on the shelves include Cookie Run, Elestrals, Oshi Push, Gundam, Union Arena and Naruto Mythos. The store also sells graded cards, entertainment trading cards and supplies: binders, Dragon Shield sleeves, deck boxes, playmats and dice.

Events

Event entries are sold as reservations ahead of time. The scheduled events:

Two events fall on November 7, so players can fit in both the prerelease and the draft in one day.

Store policies and promotions

Daily deals run seven days a week. The store also runs a monthly raffle: every $100 spent, online or in the store, earns a ticket. The October drawing pays $500 to each of 3 winners. Limits apply to some high-demand items, with the Riftbound booster box and vault capped at 3 per customer and the Magic: The Gathering Star Trek collector booster box capped at 1.

Magic booster pack prices run from about $5.99 for recent play boosters to $10 for sets like Final Fantasy, and sale pricing shows up on boxes from time to time.

The local scene

Cuyahoga Falls has a concentrated cluster of hobby shops. Whistle Stop Hobby Shop shares the immediate area, while Underhill's Games is about 1.4 miles away, JC Comics & Cards about 1.5 miles and All-Pro Sports Cards about 1.6 miles, all in Cuyahoga Falls. Game Extension is about 1.6 miles away in Akron.