Card Shops in Costa Mesa, California

Costa Mesa, California has 2 card shops in our directory — 1 is filed under trading card games and 1 under sports cards. Every listing has an address and a Google Maps link; 2 of 2 also have a phone number and 2 have posted hours.

1 of the 2 are independent and 1 belongs to a national chain. The chain location is kept out of the main grid and collected at the bottom. All 2 listings carry a website as well as an address, which is better field coverage than most cities this size. A page this short still earns a place in the index because the listing on it is an independent shop. Elsewhere in California, 49 cities have nothing but chain locations, and those pages are marked to stay out of search results. For context, California as a whole carries 493 independent shops in 230 cities alongside 202 chain locations.

The nearest other cities with shops on file are Newport Beach (3 shops, about 3 miles), Fountain Valley (3 shops, about 5 miles), and Irvine (5 shops, about 8 miles). Among the 2 Costa Mesa shops with a posted schedule, 1 is open every day of the week and 1 closes on Sundays. All 2 listings carry a Google rating. The highest-scoring independent once review volume is taken into account is The Creative Play, at 4.8 stars from 33 reviews. The directory holds no inventory data for any of these shops, so what is in the case on a given afternoon is not something this page can answer. Our guide to finding a good card shop covers what to ask on the phone, and the starter guide covers the rest.