Strategy & Games

★★★★★

“Friendly and knowledgeable staff. Good location and a great selection of games. I was able to purchase a game addon I had been looking for but couldn't find locally at home. Had a good time at a MtG pre release event. Prices were fair and better than most similar stores I have visited. We will definitely be going back the next time I am in town.”

★

“I really wanted to support a local shop, but the pricing here is hard to justify. Charging nearly $92 for a Magic: The Gathering bundle that typically retails around $50 feels excessive. I understand small businesses have overhead, but this level of markup is discouraging and makes it difficult to shop here when there are more reasonably priced options elsewhere.”

★

“Strategy and Games used to be my favorite game store in town. I went with my husband today to get a Christmas gift. After purchasing everything, the young lady working at the register (short, short curly hair with glasses) very coldly and rudely told my husband to go find a different store. I do not like how she treated my husband and I will not be going back again. Again I am very sad cause it used to be my favorite game store but now I have to find a new place because of how my husband was treated UPDATE: Imagine being immature and childish and letting a past (several years ago) personal problem effect proper and good customer service. That's not a proper or good excuse for telling my husband to go somewhere else. Have a good rest of your life and I hope you can learn to forgive and move on from the past. Cause he has moved on and wishing you the best.”

★

“RESPONSE TO THE “NEW MANAGER”: Your store practices for running events are known throughout the local mtg community. Previous events run by your owner EVEN OUTSIDE YOUR STORE have been run without prize support. These practices have been happening for years. Unless there is drastic, player forward, meaningful changes from the top down, that are clearly communicated and shown in action, your store will continue down a path where you will be a glorified games section at Target or Walmart. And if you take a Quick Look at the reviews, people would rather shop at the latter. Using free prize support from wotc to prize out an event is effectively fraud and will be treated as such. “Resolving” the issue with a “pack” is so disingenuous. If you truly understood what player centric events and customer first thinking could have an impact on your business, there would be 5 stars across the board on these reviews, you wouldn’t be able to keep your shelves stocked, and your business would thrive. I guarantee the mindset towards events you have is “well I don’t make any money from these events to want to run them”. Assuming $4/pack cost and. Pod of 8 players you end up with about $100 bucks WITH prizing out 1st 2nd 3rd 4, 3, 2 packs respectively. But here’s the big part: you have 8 customers in your store for hours. They have time between games, they buy drinks, they pick up singles, they boost your business. Imagine now, if you ran multiple pods and multiple events. Get the idea? While we’re at it: You need a rewards system and more competitive pricing. I imagine your store is significantly in the red with all that product in the shelves. Idk maybe come up with a plan to move more of it? Those are the kind of changes you need to just START becoming a better store. But if history and these reviews on google indicate anything, you and I both know that won’t be happening. EDIT: The employees here are VERY nice. It’s unfortunate because I’d love to give my business to interact with them more. Updated review. After many years of trying to give this place a chance to be fair on pricing and player-forward business practices, I am changing my 5 star review to a 1 star. The owner will consistently implement predatory pricing claiming “he has to compete with Amazon”. I Just finished playing a mtg draft that charged me $30 dollars and THEY DIDN’T EVEN PRIZE OUT. If you don’t know the standard practice, typically you’ll pay an entry fee that covers the cost of the packs and goes into a prize pool for the prize packs for the top players. I won the draft and was told “we aren’t prizing out packs this set because they cost so much”. If you aren’t aware: shops like this pay the same price from their distributors for product no matter what the set is. So effectively the players are being told that the “potential” market value of a pack is more valuable than retaining players and holding to standard practices of mtg draft. I won’t be playing here anymore. Too many scammy practices that are detrimental to the player. OLD REVIEW FOR TRANSPARENCY: An amazing place with a HUGE selection of board games, miniatures and trading cards. A nerd's absolute dream. Their X wing selection is superb. Great shop.”