Card Shops in Kentucky

Kentucky's two largest cities account for an unusually large share of the state: Louisville holds 13 independent shops and Lexington another 10, together roughly 30% of the 76 independents in the state.

The chain side is 48 GameStop and 9 Game X Change locations — Kentucky is one of the states where Game X Change has a real presence — and 13 of the 54 listed cities have no local shop in them. Those pages are noindexed but stay linked from here.

Behind Louisville and Lexington the list runs Richmond (4), Florence (3), and Elizabethtown (3). Classification is 95 trading card games to 45 sports cards, with 7 filed under both.

Every Kentucky entry carries an address and a map link; 122 carry a phone number, 112 post hours, and 100 link to a website. 90 have a Google rating attached, which is what the ranking on each list page is built from. Stock, buy prices and event nights are not fields in this dataset, so nothing here can tell you what is in a case today. 72 of the 112 shops with posted hours run seven days. On rating weighted by review count, Blast Off Gaming in Louisville (5.0 stars from 71 reviews), Ethan's Sports Cards and More in Lancaster (5.0 stars from 66 reviews), and Player 1 Gaming & Collectibles in Russell Springs (5.0 stars from 61 reviews) lead.

52 Kentucky listings are thin records kept out of search results — a high share, driven by the chain locations, which carry little beyond an address. Among everything else, 122 of 133 listings have a phone number, 112 post hours, and 90 carry a Google rating.