Best Card Shops in Minnesota

Minnesota has 84 independent card shops in our directory, plus 26 national chain locations. Of all 110 listings, chains included, 75 are classified under TCG and 43 under sports cards (a listing filed under both counts in each). The ranking below covers independents only, scored by rating and review volume.

The order below is a Bayesian average of each shop's Google rating. Every rating is blended with the directory-wide mean of 4.44 stars, weighted as if 15 extra reviews sat at that mean, so a rating backed by a handful of reviews is pulled toward the average and a rating backed by hundreds barely moves. Minnesota has 84 independent shops eligible for the list, 67 of them with a rating and review count; the 20 highest scores are shown. The ranked set is independents only: 26 national chain locations stay listed on the state page but never enter this ordering. By directory category the list splits 11 under trading card games, 6 under sports cards, and 3 under both.

18 cities are represented in the list; the most places go to Hastings (2) and Minneapolis (2). You can see the weighting in the order: Midwest Vintage Toys, on 4.9 stars from 96 reviews, ranks above Mins Gallery / Uptown TCG, on 5.0 from 28 reviews. Ratings among the ranked shops run from 4.8 to 5.0 stars, backed by between 23 and 520 reviews, with a median of 68. Nobody from Card Shop Hub has visited these shops; the list reflects Google ratings and nothing else, so treat it as a shortlist to call. The full set of listings is on the Minnesota state page.