Trading Card Games Card Shops

This is the broadest specialty in the directory: 5,118 listings — about 75% of everything on the site — classified for trading card games, across 2,582 cities and all 50 states.

Breadth comes at a cost, and it is worth stating plainly before you scroll. 2,301 of these 5,118 listings are national chain locations — GameStop and similar — because every chain in this dataset is classified as a trading card game retailer. That leaves 2,817 independent shops, which is the half of this page most people are actually looking for. The grid below sorts independents above chains within each state, and the state links take you to pages where the chains are collapsed into a block of their own.

The tag is applied at the level of the business record: a shop filed under TCG or under both categories carries it automatically. Nothing about this page asserts that a particular shop runs Friday Night Magic, stocks Japanese Pokemon product, or keeps a singles case. The directory has no field for any of that. Where a shop's own name or description names a specific game, the narrower pages — Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! — record it.

The heaviest states are Texas (541), California (530), Florida (347), New York (251), and Ohio (208); the heaviest cities Houston, Texas (47), San Antonio, Texas (47), Las Vegas, Nevada (36), and Brooklyn, New York (29). Field coverage is good on this set because chain records are complete: 4,824 carry a phone number, 4,566 post hours, and 4,297 link to a website, with 3,616 carrying a Google rating.