Card Shops in Texas

Texas has the largest chain footprint in the directory: 283 of its 649 listings are national chain locations — 255 GameStop, 22 Game X Change, and 6 EntertainMART locations — against 366 independent shops. It is also the only state where three separate chain brands each run to double figures.

Among the independents, San Antonio and Houston are tied at 30 each, with Austin (17), El Paso (14), and Dallas (10) behind them. Both San Antonio and Houston carry more than fifty total listings, most of them chain, which is why the city pages there lead with the independents and collapse the chains into a block at the end.

50 Texas cities have no independent listing at all — the highest count of any state — and 94 hold exactly one shop. Classification comes out at 541 trading card games to 134 sports cards, 26 both.

Every Texas entry carries an address and a map link; 610 carry a phone number, 558 post hours, and 509 link to a website. 394 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. 411 of the 558 shops with posted hours run all seven days. ThePokeHive in San Antonio (5.0 stars from 2,905 reviews), Adventures With Dick Hobby & Games in Kyle (5.0 stars from 199 reviews), and Trademark Sports Cards in Killeen (5.0 stars from 104 reviews) lead the rating-weighted ranking.

274 Texas listings are thin records kept out of search results, the largest such count anywhere and almost all of it chain locations with nothing on file beyond an address. Among the rest, 610 carry a phone number and 394 a Google rating — the pool the state's best-shops ranking draws on.