
Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our Union Arena Sword Art Online Vol. 2 Rare Battle!
On Saturday, March 21st at 4 PM, compete in an exclusive Rare Battle tournament for Sword Art Online Vol. 2! These exclusive events offer limited prizes to competitive players. Rounds are based on attendance, with 4 rounds and no top cut being the highest possible rounds. This takes place directly after our Union Arena release event for Solo Leveling at 2 PM! Matches are 30 minutes, best of one. Each round won awards players with a pack of Sword Art Online Vol. 2. Participants receive a Volume 7 Event Pack, 4th through 2nd place receive a Union Rare Asuna promo card, and the Winner receives a Union Rare (Winner vers.) Asuna promo card!
Entry is $15. Players must register ahead of time on Bandai TCG+. Decks must be tournament legal and themed around Sword Art Online.
What is Union Arena?
UNION ARENA is a “Common Rules Trading Card Game”, which means players only need to learn 1 set of rules to play this card game using characters from series they love. In UNION ARENA you can find many popular characters from various series on the cards! Make a deck with characters from your favorite series and enjoy battles that even cross series!
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More Union Arena Events are on our Gnome Games calendar!

On Saturday, March 21st at 2 PM, compete in an exclusive release event tournament for Solo Leveling! This is a sealed style tournament, where players first open up packs to make their deck, then play against each other. Rounds are based on attendance, with 4 rounds being the highest possible rounds. 16 players is our maximum capacity. Matches are 35 minutes, best of one. Participants all receive a Premium Release Event Pack and two exclusive Sung Jinwoo promo cards, and the grand Winner receives a Winner foil stamped Sung Jinwoo promo card!
On Friday, March 20th at 5 PM, compete in an exclusive Newtype Challenge tournament! This is Mission 2 for the 2026 year. Bring your best decks to compete for packs, limited promotional cards, and most importantly, bragging rights! Rounds are based on attendance, with 5 Rounds being the most rounds possible. We are not running Top Cut for this event. Matches are 30 minutes, best of one. Participants receive a GD03-114 Look of Determination promo card, Top 4 receive a ST07-011 Lockon Stratos (Neil) promo card, and the grand Winner receives a ST07-005 Gundam Dynames promo card!

On Saturday, March 14th at 12 PM come compete in our One Piece Store Treasure Cup for 2026! Play in several matches against other players to determine who is the very best at our store! Rounds are based on attendance, with 5 Rounds and a Top 4 Top Cut being the highest possible amount of rounds. Each round is 30 minutes, best of one. Top Cut rounds are 60 minutes, best of three. Each participant receives an Event Pack Vol. 8 just for participating! Top 8 and Top 4 get additional Event Packs based on ranking, and the grand champion gets a Store Treasure Cup March 2026 Alt-Art Card OP13-119 Portgas.D.Ace!
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