2311 Santa Clara Ave,
Alameda,CA 94501
510-522-2109
Tues-Fri. 3:30 to 7:00
Saturday 11 to 6
Sunday 11 to 6
Mondays Closed
Often open late for events
A Different Kind of Sale @ D20…
(Personal message from Ben…store owner guy):
I had an epiphany last week.
While watching an ad for Target, showing people trying to sneak out of Thanksgiving dinner early to get to their sale, something in me just snapped. I realized last thing in the world I wanted was for people to leave each other on one of the few days they have together as families just to go off shopping. Sure I want the business, but not at that cost, (particularly when the biggest point of what we do is to help provide excuses for people to have fun together).
Therefore, I’ve decided to do things different for the rest of the season:
- We will have special hours during some of the school days and late in some evenings that are special times for parents to come in and pick up gifts without the kids in tow, and without huge crowds. (During the morning times, we’ll provide parents with a free cup of coffee or tea, and a little kid to parent translation on what would make the kids extra happy and keep their brains getting stronger)
- Play it Forward! From now until Xmas eve, every gift purchase over $25 will come with a Mystery gift (value over $5–the bigger the purchase, the bigger the gift) that you get to decide which folks in need of some smiles it gets to go to. The games we have are great since the older kids are often left out in these types of toy drives under an avalanche of stuffed bears and equivalent. The charities will include:
- Toys for Tots (through the local Fire Fighters)
- Midway Shelter
- Children’s Hospital in Oakland
- ???? (come talk to us if you have a great group that you think would benefit from some games)
BTW…if you want to just buy stuff for donation, we will do what we did last year, buy two and we will match with a third.
We are going to be adding reviews and recommendations to the site every day from now on. We’ve also started using our twitter account to do to things, say what is going on live at the store, and feature either cool new stuff we just got in, or good quick sales we are having. Feel free to subscribe if that sounds like fun.
Happy Thanksgiving!!! Fun, Turkey and Black Friday Sales (as well as Small Business Saturday)
Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!!! Make sure to do some random act of kindness!! As always, thanks so much for the business, and more importantly, the intensely cool community. I can’t tell you guys how thankful I am for that. If you aren’t on the road already, swing on by and pick up a good game for… Continue Reading
The Good, The Bad, and the Peter (Mohrbacher)….
Two bits of news regarding store Friend, Peter Mohrbacher. For those of you who don’t know, Peter is one of the better Magic artists who happens to live in Alameda. He has done a ton of cool cards, including Erebos, God of the Dead, the much maligned (only for abilities, not for lack of great art)… Continue Reading
D20 Weekly updates-11/7/13
Recommendations for Thanksgiving family games coming Black Friday sale, starting at 10 Two-Headed Giants now EVERY Sat. (except the first of the month–date night) New Pokemon–Legendary Treasures, out on Friday… How to Play Magic at the Lib. on Monday the 25th @ 1 pm Recommendations for Thanksgiving Family Games…So as Thanksgiving approaches, we’ve started… Continue Reading
A change in Two-Headed Giants….Now Every Sat, but the first….
Ok, ok,,,I give…We’ve bowed to popular demand and decided to start doing Two-headed Giants every Saturday night except the first of the month (which is for Date Night Magic.) For those who don’t know, Two-headed giants are team magic games, where two people build their decks together, and play as a team. We get a… Continue Reading
Buy Tickets Here For D20 Events
- Two-headed Giant this Sat @4
- Sunday- Draft at 3 pm AND 7…check the live site
- Monday & Tuesday–Magic for Tots…Sealed’s Drafts and Two-headed Giants–extra $5 for each event and we’ll put a game/toy of greater then >10 into Toys for Tots or equivalent…check for updates
- Open Extended hours until xmas…
- Sunday until 10,
- Monday from 10-8 (or longer)
- Xmas eve until 5:30
Parent’s Gift Guide for Pokemon and Magic
- Tues
- Modern Tournament @ 6–$5 entry…there will be at least a Modern Masters pack as prize regardless of how many players show up.
- Weds
- Magic League Play-Free matches from opening, Hop in tournament at ~5 (Tournament where you can join at anytime, just taking a loss for the rounds you miss) Packs for best record, and best sport (including helping other players out)
- Commander (EDH) Free play
- Thurs.
- Game Review Crew: Try a new game and write a mini review, get to buy three packs and get one free!!! (need to play a real game, at least >20 min per game)
- Teach a game/Learn to play: Bring in a new player, or help with a player who’s new, and get to buy three packs, get one free as well
- Friday
- Afternoon-Theros League ($25 to start-6 packs, $5 per week)
- Friday Night Magic (Theros-$15 pp)
- Sat
- Pokemon League 11-1 ($5-includes a Pack)
- Afternoon-Magic League
- Two Headed Giant-Two Player Magic tournament 17.50 pp. Packs at 4, play at 5:30
- Sun.
- Magic Standard tournament 11 am (11:30 play) ($5 entry)
- CardFight Vanguard Tournament, 2:00 ($5 entry)
- Magic Draft @ 3–Modern Masters if 8, or Theros–Group pick (if more then 4 want, we will do Modern Masters) ($40 for MM, $15 for Theros)
UPDATES
MAGIC: BIG NEWS….there is going to be another Grand Prix in the area in January ( a bit farther off this time…Sacramento, but a lot closer then Japan or Prague. So we are back to building up our event points to give the players chances for byes in the event.) We will do a Grand Prix trail at the store, and try and do some others to help the players build up some extra points.
Theros has been a ton of stuff so far. Make sure to come in and join the league…best fun per pack you can have. Also…we’re working hard to help people learn the game, so if you see someone in need of help, do for them what someone cool hopefully once did for you.
ALSO…bring in someone to one of our organized events (FNM, Date Night, Two Headed, etc.) who has never been in before, and both of you get a special buy 2, get one free pack deal! (Normal special is buy 6 get one free, so this is a great deal). Finally, we got our hands on some great new (and old) cards, including some amazing Judge Foils.
Pokemon: New set coming out at the end of this month!! Should be fun. And we have some great cards in stock right now including some interesting judge cards. Also, we need more people to help out with new and younger players. For every glowing thanks we get from a person you help, you can get to do the special buy two packs, get one free (including mystery packs.)