Card Shops in Irvine, California

Irvine, California has 5 card shops in our directory — 4 are filed under trading card games and 1 under sports cards. Every listing has an address and a Google Maps link; 5 of 5 also have a phone number and 4 have posted hours.

Of those 5, 4 are independent shops and 1 is a national chain location. Independents are listed first on this page and the chain entry sits in a collapsed block at the end. For context, California as a whole carries 493 independent shops in 230 cities alongside 202 chain locations. Every one of these 5 shops carries a rating; weighting each rating by how many reviews stand behind it puts Slabspace Sports Cards & TCGS first, on 5.0 stars across 183 reviews. That makes Irvine the 23rd-largest concentration of independent shops among California's 230 cities with one.

Among the 4 Irvine shops with a posted schedule, 1 is open every day of the week, 1 closes on Mondays, and 3 close on Sundays. The nearest other cities with shops on file are Santa Ana (3 shops, about 4 miles), Newport Beach (3 shops, about 6 miles), and Lake Forest (2 shops, about 7 miles). Websites are patchier than phone numbers here — 4 of 5 have one on file — and a blank field means the source record had nothing, not that the shop lacks one. Stock, buy prices and event schedules are outside what this directory tracks, so call ahead for anything specific. The shop-finding guide and the starter guide cover the questions worth asking.