Pokémon TCG League at Gnome Games Appleton East – $5*

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our Pokémon League!

Every Thursday from 4 PM to 7 PM, we’re hosting Pokémon TCG League! TCG stands for trading card game. League nights are all about battling, trading, and more with a focus on our adult crowd! Don’t know how to play? We will have resources readily available to anyone looking to learn, including play mats that emphasize zones and what to do on your turn. Pokémon isn’t just a kids game!

Entry into this event is $5 worth of Pokémon related product. On your first and third visit each month, you qualify for prize packs provided by Play! Pokémon! Players need a Pokémon ID to register. If you don’t have one, we will help you make one! It’s easy to sign up and doesn’t even require an electronic device! Registration can be finalized at home, or whenever you’re able.

What is the Pokémon Trading Card Game?

The Pokémon TCG is all about battling with various cards from the Pokémon franchise! You and your opponent will face off in a Pokémon battle
and try to Knock Out each other’s Pokémon. The first player to Knock Out 6 Pokémon wins the game! Using cards such as Pokémon, Trainers, Arenas, and more, battle your way to victory!

Not interested in battling? That’s where the trading comes in! Meet up with like-minded players to chat about your favorite Pokémon and engage in equal trades to collect more of what you like!

Interested in learning how to play the Pokémon TCG? Check out their interactive tutorial, or stop by and one of our friendly Gnomes will show you!

For more news, events, and more with Pokémon, check out their website!

More Pokémon events at Gnome Games can be found on our calendar!

Magic the Gathering Open Play Commander Night at Gnome Games Appleton East – $5*

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our Magic the Gathering Commander Nights!

Every Thursday at 6 PM, we’re hosting open play Commander Nights! Hop into games with friends, or find some new faces to test your decks out with! For $5 of Magic the Gathering related product, you’ll get entered into a randomized race for the chance to win exclusive promo packs and cards. Don’t have a Commander Deck? Check out our Commander Decks for sale in-store!

Players need a Wizards account to qualify for promotional products. Don’t have a Wizards account? Sign up here! Preregister for the event on the Companion app using this code: ZQRPWPX

What is Magic the Gathering?

Magic is a collectible trading card game of fun-filled, strategic games to play with friends old and new. Welcoming worldbuilders, narrative lovers, and gameplay enthusiasts alike, Magic has something for everyone and countless ways to play. Gathering together is half the fun! Bring along your crew or meet up with some new faces! A Multiverse of adventures awaits you, filled with powerful, unforgettable characters and spells to explore. Test your abilities to think fast and have fun on a battlefield of possibilities! Try new strategies with creative deckbuilding or push your skills to go for the win.

Each of the five colors in Magic represent a different philosophy and a different playstyle. Choose your color(s) to decide which type of land you’ll be drawing resources (mana) from and what type of Magic you’ll wield. Magic the Gathering has several starter products to choose from, including Jumpstart Packs, Beginner Bundles, and more! If you don’t want to learn on your own, check out our Learn to Play: Magic the Gathering events at Gnome Games, hosted every Monday from 6 PM to close!

What is Commander?

The Commander format is all about picking your hero and building a deck around them! In this casual, multiplayer format, you choose a legendary creature or artifact to serve as your commander and build the rest of your deck around their color identity and unique abilities. Players have a limit of one of each card in their deck, with the exception of basic lands, but they can use cards from throughout Magic’s history. A card’s color identity can come from any part of that card, including its casting cost and any mana symbols in its text. Every card in your Commander deck must only use mana symbols that also appear on your commander. Colorless cards are allowed as well.

For more news, events, and more on Magic the Gathering, check out their website!

More Magic the Gathering at Gnome Games can be found on our calendar!

One Piece Card Game Weekly Tournament at Gnome Games Appleton East – $10

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our One Piece Card Game Weekly Tournament!

Every Wednesday at 5 PM we host a One Piece Card Game Weekly Tournament! These provide the opportunity to not only test your skills against your opponents, but to earn exclusive prizes while doing so! Battle it out in 3 rounds of a Swiss style tournament, where each round won awards you with an additional pack of the newest set! The current newest set is Carrying on His Will [OP13]. Exclusive participation promos go out to each player, and one lucky winner will be the King and receive a winner promo!

Entry is $10. Please register on TCG+ ahead of the event.

What is the One Piece Card Game?

The One Piece Card Game is a trading card game originally released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the One Piece manga. Create your very own crew with all of your favorite characters from the series! How you enjoy it is entirely up to you: Collect. Battle. Display. Play solo, with your family, or with your friends! For a guided tutorial, check out the One Piece Card Game tutorial!

For more news, events, information and more on the One Piece Card Game, take a look at their website!

Want more One Piece Card Game at Gnome Games? Our calendar provides!

Grand Archive Weekly Tournament at Gnome Games Appleton East – $7.00

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our weekly Grand Archive tournament!

Every Tuesday at 5:30 PM we are hosting a Grand Archive tournament! Battle it out in 3 rounds of a Swiss style tournament, where each round won awards you with another pack! We’ll also be handing out exclusive promos! You must have a Grand Archive deck to participate, and an account through Omnidex to register for the event. Events are found here! To make an account, check here!

Our entry for this event is $7, and everyone gets a pack just for participating!

What is Grand Archive?

In a game of Grand Archive, each player controls a champion. You win the game by defeating each opponent’s champion. This makes champion cards one of the most influential card types in deck building, and is considered the heart of your deck. Each champion has a life stat marked in the bottom right corner of the card. When champions take an amount of damage, that many damage counters are marked on them. If the amount of damage counters on a champion reaches their life stat, that champion dies.

We at Gnome Games have Demo decks available for anyone to use to learn the game, free of charge! Ask a friendly Gnome at the counter for details.

For news, events, and more from Grand Archive, check out their website!

Want more Grand Archive at Gnome Games? Take a look at our calendar!

Yu-Gi-Oh! Weekly Tournament at Gnome Games Appleton East – $5

Join us at Gnome Games Appleton East for our weekly Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament!

Sundays at 1 PM we host our very own weekly tournaments for Yu-Gi-Oh! Battle it out in 3 rounds of a Swiss style tournament using your very own constructed decks. Each match won awards you with an OTS pack! If you haven’t received one by the end of the event, you get one just for participating!

Weekly tournaments are a great way to hang out, test out new decks, chat about Yu-Gi-Oh!, and more! Our entry fee is $5. Don’t have a deck? Check out our structure decks for sale in store! They offer great ways to pick up and learn the game, while highlighting iconic archetypes and characters from the franchise.

What is Yu-Gi-Oh?

In Yu-Gi-Oh!, two players Duel each other using a variety of Monster, Spell, and Trap Cards to defeat their opponent’s monsters and be the first to drop the other’s Life Points to 0. Players draw cards from their respective decks and take turns playing cards onto “the field”. Each player uses a deck containing forty to sixty cards, and an optional “extra deck” of up to fifteen cards. For more details on how to play, check out the Yu-Gi-Oh website’s Rulebook and Beginner’s Guide page!

For more Yu-Gi-Oh! information, take a look at their website!

Our calendar offers more Yu-Gi-Oh! at our very own Gnome Games stores!

One Piece Tournament at Gnome Games Green Bay West

Join in the fun every Thursday for our One Piece Tournament at Gnome Games Green Bay West!

Our One Piece tournament is at 6:00pm,  3 rounds, best of one. 35 minute rounds.

It is now $10 but is also Win-A-Match, Win-A-Pack!

Winner will also get a Winner Pack!
You get a pack even if you don’t win a match.

Grab your favorite deck and we hope to see you there!

To check current Store tournament promos and other news from Bandai on One Piece: https://en.onepiece-cardgame.com/events/store_tournament/

Watch for special events like prereleases or deck battles on our calendar!

Neopets Battledome Thursday Tournaments – Green Bay West – $8

Neopets Thursdays Gnome Games Green Bay West

The Gnomes invite Neopetians to the Gnome Games Green Bay West Battledome each Thursday this summer at Noon!


$8 tournament, where we’ll play 3 rounds; with each round having players win-a-pack, when they win-a-match!

We will be following the banned/restricted list on Neopets site.

As of 8/15/25 this includes:

  • Naia (Faerie) is banned.
  • Giant Spyder Web (Equipment) is Banned
  • LabRay Scientist (Legend) is limited to 1 copy in your deck.
  • Count Boris (Legend) is limited to 1 copy in your deck.
  • Zombified Peasants (Legend) is limited to 1 copy in your deck.
  • Giant Spyders (Legend) is limited to 1 copy in your deck.
  • Lady Frostbite (Legend) is limited to 1 copy in your deck.
  • Nilo (Legend) is limited to 1 copy in your deck.
  • Darigan’s Orb (Equipment) is limited to 1 copy in your deck.
  • Faerie Hot Dog (Food) is limited to 1 copy in your deck.
  • LabRay – Chocolate is limited to 1 copy in your Rainbow Pool.
  • LabRay – Sponge is limited to 1 copy in your Rainbow Pool.
  • LabRay – Robot limited to 1 copy in your Rainbow Pool.
  • LabRay – Burlap limited to 1 copy in your Rainbow Pool.
  • LabRay – Mosaic limited to 1 copy in your Rainbow Pool.

Deck Construction
You need a 50-card deck made up of a combination of Codestones, Equipment, Food, Faeries, Heroes, Legends, Map Pieces, Paint Brushes, Petpets, Potions, and Villains. Decks can contain no more than 2 copies of any Equipment, Food, Legends, Paint Brushes, and Potions. They may contain no more than 1 copy of any Faerie, Hero, Petpet, unique Map Piece, or Villain and may contain any number of Codestones. You can have a Neopet Deck of at least 3 and up to 5 Neopets of different species (all 5 must have a different name), and a Rainbow Pool with up to 10 unique Rainbow Pool Neopets. Additional cards may have unique rules text having them start in your Rainbow Pool. These cards do not count towards the 10 Rainbow Pool Neopet limit. Up to 10 six-sided diced will be required for battle.


New to the game? Watch the how to play here.Looking for a card list of what cards are in the game?

 

 

 

Yu-Gi-Oh! Genesys Thursdays at Gnome Games Green Bay West

Gnome Games Green Bay West

Yu-Gi-Oh! Genesys is at Gnome Games Green Bay West on Thursdays!

The latest format for Yu-Gi-Oh! Genesys has arrived at Gnome Games! We’re hosting Thursday tournaments each week at 5:30pm for this new format, with $5+tax entry. Like our Advanced Format tournaments it is Win-A-Match, Win-A-Pack, with OTS packs being up for grabs!

But what is Genesys?
A new format of play and deck building that allows for more potential cards to be used!

The Genesys rules are simple: 

    1. No Link Monsters or Pendulum Monsters are allowed. All other cards are allowed. The original field layout is used, with no Extra Monster Zones nor Pendulum Zones. 
    2. The standard Forbidden & Limited Cards list is not used. All those cards can be used, except Link Monsters and Pendulum Monsters. Usual limit of 3 copies max of any card still applies. 
    3. Deck construction uses a point system. Some cards are assigned a point value; most cards cost zero points. The total point cost of cards in your Main Deck, Extra Deck, and Side Deck (combined) cannot exceed the point cap for that event. 
    4.  The standard point cap is 100, but events can be run with any point cap, or even a zero-point cap! Official Tournament Stores can set their own caps for their tournaments.

Gnome Games is using the standard point cap of 100 for these tournaments. The 100 point cap is geared towards allowing players to use some otherwise Forbidden cards, but attempts to limit “First Turn Kills” that would otherwise be reliable because of their strength.

Konami developed a tool to help with deck construction in the Genesys format, available here: https://registration.yugioh-card.com/genesys/

There’s also a blog to help with learning this new format, as well as to keep up with changes as the point system gets adjusted! https://yugiohblog.konami.com/category/genesys/

Watch for this and other events on our calendar: www.gnomegames.com/events

Yu-Gi-Oh! Genesys Thursdays at Gnome Games Green Bay West

Gnome Games Green Bay West

Yu-Gi-Oh! Genesys is at Gnome Games Green Bay West on Thursdays!

The latest format for Yu-Gi-Oh! Genesys has arrived at Gnome Games! We’re hosting Thursday tournaments each week at 5:30pm for this new format, with $5+tax entry. Like our Advanced Format tournaments it is Win-A-Match, Win-A-Pack, with OTS packs being up for grabs!

But what is Genesys?
A new format of play and deck building that allows for more potential cards to be used!

The Genesys rules are simple: 

    1. No Link Monsters or Pendulum Monsters are allowed. All other cards are allowed. The original field layout is used, with no Extra Monster Zones nor Pendulum Zones. 
    2. The standard Forbidden & Limited Cards list is not used. All those cards can be used, except Link Monsters and Pendulum Monsters. Usual limit of 3 copies max of any card still applies. 
    3. Deck construction uses a point system. Some cards are assigned a point value; most cards cost zero points. The total point cost of cards in your Main Deck, Extra Deck, and Side Deck (combined) cannot exceed the point cap for that event. 
    4.  The standard point cap is 100, but events can be run with any point cap, or even a zero-point cap! Official Tournament Stores can set their own caps for their tournaments.

Gnome Games is using the standard point cap of 100 for these tournaments. The 100 point cap is geared towards allowing players to use some otherwise Forbidden cards, but attempts to limit “First Turn Kills” that would otherwise be reliable because of their strength.

Konami developed a tool to help with deck construction in the Genesys format, available here: https://registration.yugioh-card.com/genesys/

There’s also a blog to help with learning this new format, as well as to keep up with changes as the point system gets adjusted! https://yugiohblog.konami.com/category/genesys/

Watch for this and other events on our calendar: www.gnomegames.com/events