The Arcane Lab

People may call it the mecca. It's ok. Staff was nice. I see people complaining about what they pay for Pokemon and it's insane. Every person wants to buy at less than MSRP and sell their cards at tcg prices. Stores don't work that way and if any of these scalpers had overhead they'd know that cards are volatile cards can drop value overnight. If you want tcg or eBay prices sell them there. Pay 20% in fees then have someone claim the card is fake or not the condition they thought and you eat return shipping so now you spent 30% for the privilege of getting probably not even your card back. 50-60% is what a store should pay. They have bills and have to weather the storm

Not too many shops are as good as this Place. the people who run this shop have been very welcoming every-time i walk in. nice selection of TCG singles. great prices, thank you Arcane Labs Crew and Uncle Manny is the man!

The selection here is massive for MTG. They also had a LOT of other TCG like Pokemon and Riftbound but I can't speak too much of that since I don't know about them. Friendly staff, lots of room to play and great people all around.

Came to check it out after I saw the owners dad in another store casually saying loud enough "oh these are neat my son has these at his store Arcane Lab" awhile ago. Merced is out of the way but that dad always had free rent in our head. The guy working was cool. Magic crowd was not the vibe for me though.

The mecca. The holy land. The place to keep our passion and dreams alive. I could go on and on about how great Manny and his staff are over at Arcane - but just know ill drive 2 hours out of my way to come here and pass a dozen other LGS just to support this place. 11/10 for all things TCG