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Murder is afoot at the Gnome! Murder Mystery during the Magic at Karlov Manor Prereleases this weekend

Gather, Planeswalkers! A Mystery Unfurls at Gnome Games!

Dust off your sleuthing skills and sharpen your spellcasting focus, for Gnome Games invites you to an event unlike any other: Murder at the Gnome Games: a Magic: the Gathering Prerelease like no other, shrouded in the chilling mystery of Murder at Karlov Manor Prereleases that only you can solve!

Prepare to step into the vibrant world of mystery at your favorite Gnome Games store, as it is transformed into a scene of intrigue and suspense. A beloved figure has fallen, and sinister whispers hang heavy in the air. Could it be the charismatic, competitive Barnaby “Mana Burn” Bolt, forever vying for supremacy? Or perhaps the gentle Lyra “Land Whisperer” Willowbrook, championing environmental awareness? Every Planeswalker amongst us becomes a suspect, and every card cast holds a clue.

Solve the Mystery – Intrigue at Gnome Games: A Murder Mystery at the Magic the Gathering Karlov Manor Prerelease

Hark, Planeswalkers! There has been a murder at Gnome Games and we need your help to solve the mystery!

For one event at each store only, Gnome Games transforms into a stage for murder and mayhem. You are no longer just patrons seeking prereleases and preordained packs. You are investigators, thrust into a tangled web of deceit and suspicion.

Unravel the clues as you play in the Magic the Gathering Murders at Karlov Manor Prerelease.

Decipher cryptic messages, untangle alibis, and navigate hidden passages. Use your strategic minds and collaborative spirit to interrogate suspects, analyze evidence, and piece together the puzzle before the final match is played. In the spirit of Magic the Gathering, you’ll earn more than more boosters when you win a match; clues are truly what you seek! 

Will you become the champion of justice, unmasking the killer and claiming victory? Or will you succumb to the shadows, forever trapped in the web of Karlov Manor’s deadly secrets?

The stakes are high, the mystery awaits, and the fate of Gnome Games hangs in the balance.

Gather your Planeswalker companions, sharpen your wits, and step into the shadows. The hunt for the murderer in afoot!

What to expect at the Murder at Karlov Manor Murder Mystery Prereleases

  • Interactive murder mystery gameplay: Play prereleases, gather clues, and uncover the truth through deduction and collaboration.
    Sweet eats and treats: enjoy some fine cheesecake delights, but beware – even the delicious temptations may contain clues!
    Engaging characters: Each guest becomes a suspect with their own secrets and motives.
    Twists and turns: Be prepared for red herrings, hidden passages, and a jaw-dropping reveal.
  • Magic the Gathering Gameplay – 3 rounds of Sealed Magic the Gathering Prerelease fun! Win a Match, Win a Murder at Karlov Manor Play Pack (and earn a clue to help solve the mystery)
  • An event filled with loads of thrills and laughter: Enjoy camaraderie, competition, and the unforgettable experience of solving a magical murder mystery.



Here are the event times and locations:

Preregister Online and reserve your seat today!

Murder Mystery at the Magic Murder at Karlov Manor Prerelease
Gnome Games Appleton
Friday Feb 2 at 6 PM (32 Player Cap)
https://gnomegames.com/event/murder-mystery-at-karlove-manor-prerelease-appleton/

Murder Mystery in the Shadow of Lambeau Murder at Karlov Manor Prerelease
Gnome Games Green Bay West
Friday Feb 2  – 6 pm
https://gnomegames.com/event/murders-at-karlov-manor-mystery-prerelease-green-bay-west/

There’s Been A Murder at Gnome Games Green Bay East Magic Prerelease
Gnome Games Green Bay East
Saturday Feb 3 – 1 PM
https://gnomegames.com/event/theres-been-a-murder-at-gbe/

Murder Mystery at The Gnoshery Magic Murders at Karlov Manor Prerelease –
The Gnoshery – Sturgeon Bay
Friday Feb 2 – 5 PM
https://the-gnoshery.com/event/murder-at-karlov-manor-prerelease-the-gnoshery/

Murder Mystery at the Magic Murders at Karlov Manor Prerelease – Friday Feb 2
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Disney Lorcana Release Events at Gnome Games August 18,19,20

Join the Gnomes for Disney Lorcana Premier August 18 – 20!

Gnome Games Appleton – Friday August 18 4 PM – 6 PM

Gnome Games Green Bay West – Friday August 18 6 PM – 9 PM

Gnome Games Green Bay East – Sunday August 20 3 PM – 5 PM

The Gnoshery – Sturgeon Bay – Saturday August 19 3 PM – 5 PM

Entry $30 – Includes a First Chapter Starter Deck and 2 Lorcana First Chapter Boosters Casual Play with staff teaching the game. No prizes, we are just having fun for this release celebration!

Disney Lorcana Illumineer League – Play Every Week! Entry Purchase 1 Lorcana Booster

Gnome Games Green Bay West – Saturdays 1 PM – 3 PM

Gnome Games Appleton – Saturdays 3 PM – 5 PM

Gnome Games Green Bay East – Sundays 3 PM – 5 PM

The Gnoshery / Gnome Games Sturgeon Bay – Sundays 2 PM – 4 PM

Learn to Play with the Gnomes: Cat Fluxx

Learn to Play Cat Fluxx with Gnome Games!  Wednesday, October 22nd at 6pm, one of the Gnomes will be helping players learn to play Cat Fluxx, which puts a fun feline spin on the classic simplicity of the Fluxx card game series!

This is a Free event! Seating is limited, but we’re looking to help introduce more players to great games every Wednesday during our Board Game night!

We’ll go over the basics of the game and then jump into playing the game with the Gnome community!

Curious about the game? You can read a few reviews or find videos here! While you wait for Wednesday!

Ready to play? Check our calendar for event times and opportunities!

Learn to Play with the Gnomes: Santorini

Learn to Play Santorini with Gnome Games!  Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm, one of the Gnomes will be helping players learn to play Santorini! Use the powers of the Gods to build up a city on top of a cliff face; who will come out on top?

This is a Free event! Seating is limited, but we’re looking to help introduce more players to great games every Wednesday during our Board Game night!

We’ll go over the basics of the game and then jump into playing the game with the Gnome community!

Curious about the game? You can read a few reviews or find videos here! While you wait for Wednesday!

Ready to play? Check our calendar for event times and opportunities!

Cookie Run: Age of Heroes & Kingdoms Prerelease – Green Bay East

Cookie Run Age of Heroes and KingdomsCookie Run: Braverse’s second set is at Gnome Games! Age of Heroes & Kingdoms provides the next opportunity to play the card game with the newest cookies! errr… cards!

Gnome Games Green Bay East prerelease event on Saturday, October 4th at 1:30pm! Entry is $24.

This is a sealed event: Each player will be given 7 booster packs of Age of Heroes and Kingdoms. Players will have a limited amount of time to open the packs and make a 40 card deck from the packs.

Each player will be given an Eternal Sugar promo card at the start of the first round. They will also receive Promo Pack Vol. 3 as part of entry.

Each match win during the event will get the winning player another Promo Pack Vol. 3.

The top player at the end of the event will get a Milky Way promo card.

Some clues on playing for new players to Cookie Run:

  1. What happens to damage if I deal more damage than a cookie currently has? (I.e. what happens when I deal 3 damage to a cookie, and a flip card that adds HP is activated last?),

The newly drawn card will also be flipped. The amount of damage done can be thought of as the number of cards you will attempt to flip from the top of the HP stack in any way possible

  1. Can I attack with a cookie the same turn I play it from my hand?,

Yes. Cookies only have one condition to be allowed to attack, which is being [active] in the battle area.

  1. What happens when there are no more cards to draw?,

When the last card from your deck is drawn, you must perform a [refresh]. To [refresh], you must pick one cookie card from the trash to put into the break area, shuffle the remaining cards, and place them back into your deck.

  1. When/How do you play trap cards?,

Trap cards can be played only when your opponent has declared an attack, and before the initial damage resolves. To play the card, you must also be able to pay the cost of the card by planning ahead and saving your support cookies to pay the cost later.

Frequently asked questions are often answered here:

So you are aware, Brave Points are on pause between October 4th & 9th.
Watch for additional events on our website!

Riftbound: Learn to Play – Green Bay West

October 17th Riftbound Learn to Play

Teemo Promo CardLearn to Play Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game

The Gnomes would like to invite those curious about Riftbound to a Learn to Play event on Friday, October 17th at 6:30pm! The Gnomes will provide demo decks to use and guidance on how to play Riftbound! After learning to play, guests will receive a Teemo promo card! (But not the demo decks, sorry!)

Preregister for the event here: https://locator.riftbound.uvsgames.com/events/210637

Welcome to Riftbound! 

Riftbound is the League of Legends trading card game, a game for 2-4 players where you choose your champion and send them alongside your army and your spells to take control of battlefields and win!

Choose Your Champion

To play Riftbound, you’ll need a deck. (You can build one from scratch, or you can start with a preconstructed deck and swap out cards as you collect more, learn more, and develop your own strategy.)

The most important card in your deck is your champion legend. This is the card you build your deck around—it determines your options for the chosen champion who starts faceup on the board and who you’ll send to fight for you, and it defines the domains (colors) of your deck’s cards. (In Origins, all Legends have two domains to build around.)

Your legend and your chosen champion define your strategy. Maybe your plan is quick strikes, maybe it’s to build up an unstoppable huge army, or maybe it’s to use one incredibly powerful and mobile fighter. You’ll have additional units (and other champion units) to send to fight, spells to help them win, and even gear to empower your team.

Win Battlefields to Win the Game

Each player brings a battlefield as part of their deck, but once the game starts they are all up for grabs. You’ll move your champion and other units to take control of battlefields over the course of the game. Each time you do, you’ll score a point, and if you can keep control, each new turn you’ll score another one. When you get to 8 points (or 11 in a team game), you win!

Of course, it isn’t always easy to take control of a battlefield. If your opponent already controls it, then your army and theirs fight! Units use their might (or combat strength) to deal damage to opposing units. If you’re the only one with units standing at the end of the fight, you win the battle and take control of the battlefield.

Fuel Your Power with Runes

All of these powerful cards don’t come for free. Each of the cards in your deck have a cost that you pay with resource cards called runes that come from a separate side deck.

Each turn, you’ll get two new runes, and they can be used in two ways: You can turn them sideways and use them up temporarily to pay for normal costs, or you can use them up completely by returning them to your rune deck to pay for more powerful cards. (Don’t worry, they’ll be back!)

Watch for the Release event on October 31st and more events on our calendar!

Riftbound: Learn to Play – Green Bay West

Riftbound Learn to Play at Gnome Games Green Bay West

Teemo Promo CardLearn to Play Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game

The Gnomes would like to invite those curious about Riftbound to a Learn to Play event on Friday, October 10th at 6:30pm! The Gnomes will provide demo decks to use and guidance on how to play Riftbound! After learning to play, guests will receive a Teemo promo card! (But not the demo decks, sorry!)

Preregister for the event here: https://locator.riftbound.uvsgames.com/events/210633

Welcome to Riftbound! 

Riftbound is the League of Legends trading card game, a game for 2-4 players where you choose your champion and send them alongside your army and your spells to take control of battlefields and win!

Choose Your Champion

To play Riftbound, you’ll need a deck. (You can build one from scratch, or you can start with a preconstructed deck and swap out cards as you collect more, learn more, and develop your own strategy.)

The most important card in your deck is your champion legend. This is the card you build your deck around—it determines your options for the chosen champion who starts faceup on the board and who you’ll send to fight for you, and it defines the domains (colors) of your deck’s cards. (In Origins, all Legends have two domains to build around.)

Your legend and your chosen champion define your strategy. Maybe your plan is quick strikes, maybe it’s to build up an unstoppable huge army, or maybe it’s to use one incredibly powerful and mobile fighter. You’ll have additional units (and other champion units) to send to fight, spells to help them win, and even gear to empower your team.

Win Battlefields to Win the Game

Each player brings a battlefield as part of their deck, but once the game starts they are all up for grabs. You’ll move your champion and other units to take control of battlefields over the course of the game. Each time you do, you’ll score a point, and if you can keep control, each new turn you’ll score another one. When you get to 8 points (or 11 in a team game), you win!

Of course, it isn’t always easy to take control of a battlefield. If your opponent already controls it, then your army and theirs fight! Units use their might (or combat strength) to deal damage to opposing units. If you’re the only one with units standing at the end of the fight, you win the battle and take control of the battlefield.

Fuel Your Power with Runes

All of these powerful cards don’t come for free. Each of the cards in your deck have a cost that you pay with resource cards called runes that come from a separate side deck.

Each turn, you’ll get two new runes, and they can be used in two ways: You can turn them sideways and use them up temporarily to pay for normal costs, or you can use them up completely by returning them to your rune deck to pay for more powerful cards. (Don’t worry, they’ll be back!)

Watch for the Release event on October 31st and more events on our calendar!

Magic the Gathering: Spider-Man Two-Headed Commander Party

Spider-Man Commander Party Two-Headed Giant

Spider-Ham~Join the Gnomes at Gnome Games Green Bay West for some Spider-Man fun with a Two-Headed Giant Commander Event celebrating the Spider-Man set October 13th at 6pm!

Two-Headed Giant Commander Night is a new Commander event in which players can earn promo cards by pairing up to battle other two-player teams. If you’re new to Commander, or want to come out with your friends and play with the new set, this is the perfect opportunity to do so!

Play follows the normal Two-Headed Giant rules, with a few added exceptions:

  • Each team starts with 60 life.
  • A team loses when they take 21 or more damage from a single commander OR have 15 or more poison counters.

More info on Two-Headed Giant Rules can be found here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/formats/two-headed-giant

~Entry: 5$

Check out our event calendar for more opportunities to play!

Magic the Gathering: Spider-Man Commander Party – Green Bay West

Magic Spider-Man

Spider-HamChoose a hero, band together in this Commander Party face off against the super villains of Spider-Man!

Monday, October 27th at 6pm we invite players to play together with the Spider-Man Commander Party set of rules!

Each player who joins in will get a promo Spider-Ham, Peter Porker!

Bring your own commander deck, and at the start of the event, before the game begins, set the Super Heroes in the middle of the table.
Starting with the youngest player and going clockwise, each player chooses a
Super Hero and places it in the command zone. Set the remaining Super Heroes aside. They won’t be used in this game. Shuffle the Super Villains deck and put it in the designated spot on the rules sheet. Turn the top card of the Super Villains
deck face up.

Super Villains are running amok in the city. Can your team of Super Heroes contain the chaos and save the day? And which one of you will emerge as the ultimate champion?

During each player’s turn, that player controls the face-up Super Villain card. If it has activated abilities, that player may activate them. Its triggered abilities will trigger based on that player’s actions, and so on.
• Each Super Villain card has an ability that allows you to capture it. If you capture a Super Villain, place its card into the Super Villain discard pile (a particularly evil discard pile next to the Super Villain deck) and put a capture counter on your Super Hero card.
• Each Super Hero may capture a maximum of three Super Villains.
• At the beginning of each player’s upkeep, if there is no Super Villain card face up, that player turns the top card of the Super Villain deck face up. If the Super Villain deck is empty, shuffle the Super Villain discard pile to reform the Super Villain deck.
• At the beginning of each player’s upkeep, if the face-up Super Villain is the same Super Villain that was there as the player ended their last turn, the player may put the Super Villain on the bottom of the deck and turn over a new Super Villain.

Watch a video of some potential shenanigans here with Good Time Society.
Join our other events by checking out our calendar!

Magic the Gathering: Spider-Man Commander Party – Green Bay West

Green Bay West Commander Party

Spider-HamChoose a hero, band together in this Commander Party face off against the super villains of Spider-Man!

Monday, October 6th at 6pm we invite players to play together with the Spider-Man Commander Party set of rules!

Each player who joins in will get a promo Spider-Ham, Peter Porker!

Bring your own commander deck, and at the start of the event, before the game begins, set the Super Heroes in the middle of the table.
Starting with the youngest player and going clockwise, each player chooses a
Super Hero and places it in the command zone. Set the remaining Super Heroes aside. They won’t be used in this game. Shuffle the Super Villains deck and put it in the designated spot on the rules sheet. Turn the top card of the Super Villains
deck face up.

Super Villains are running amok in the city. Can your team of Super Heroes contain the chaos and save the day? And which one of you will emerge as the ultimate champion?

During each player’s turn, that player controls the face-up Super Villain card. If it has activated abilities, that player may activate them. Its triggered abilities will trigger based on that player’s actions, and so on.
• Each Super Villain card has an ability that allows you to capture it. If you capture a Super Villain, place its card into the Super Villain discard pile (a particularly evil discard pile next to the Super Villain deck) and put a capture counter on your Super Hero card.
• Each Super Hero may capture a maximum of three Super Villains.
• At the beginning of each player’s upkeep, if there is no Super Villain card face up, that player turns the top card of the Super Villain deck face up. If the Super Villain deck is empty, shuffle the Super Villain discard pile to reform the Super Villain deck.
• At the beginning of each player’s upkeep, if the face-up Super Villain is the same Super Villain that was there as the player ended their last turn, the player may put the Super Villain on the bottom of the deck and turn over a new Super Villain.

Watch a video of some potential shenanigans here with Good Time Society.
Join our other events by checking out our calendar!

Daggerheart Weekly One-shots at Gnome Games Appleton East – $10

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our Daggerheart Weekly One-shots!

Every Saturday from 2 PM to 4:30 PM we will be hosting our own one-shots for Daggerheart, Darrington Press’s new Role-playing game! We will be providing 5 pre-built characters and a Dungeon Master (DM) to run the campaign. Embark on a Quickstart Adventure titled “The Sablewood Messengers” into the forest of Sablewood to deliver an important package to the village of Hush! Choose between Marlowe, Barnacle, Garrick, Khari, and Varian, each with their own classes and personalities.

What do I need to bring to play?

Players will need to bring their own set of dice and an adventuring spirit! Due to the unique nature of Daggerheart, players will need two D12 (twelve-sided die) in two different colors. These will work as your “hope” and “fear” die throughout the campaign. Entry is $10.

What is Daggerheart?

Daggerheart is a system where GMs and players share in narrative worldbuilding, and every choice matters as the adventure hangs in the balance between hope and fear. Powered by an innovative card and Duality Dice design, Daggerheart blends tactical depth with narrative freedom! Find out more about the game on Daggerheart’s website!

Interested in more Daggerheart, or other role-playing games at Gnome Games? Check out our calendar!