Trading cards · Stoke-on-Trent
Pokémon, Magic, One Piece, Lorcana, Gundam and Riftbound — six games across one counter. Search a printing, see the exact one you mean and what it's worth, and have it held in your name until you can get in.
What are you hunting?
Search by card name, set or collector number — or switch to a set or an event night.
A tactile showcase using Neubor-authored artwork from an invented set. It is presentation, not a pack simulator: no pull rates, contents or product availability are implied, and nothing here depicts a real card you could buy.
Lantern pull
Demonstration gallery
Owner-supplied concept artwork · not product photography or promised pack contents
What is due, how much of it is already spoken for, and whether we can still take your name.
supplier allocation cut — synthetic
Already spoken for — names are going on the waiting list.
Next: Release desk. Pause new reservations and contact the three demonstration preorders without allocation.
received — allocation review pending
We can still take names for this one.
Next: Stock operator. Verify the receipt before moving four demonstration reservations to ready.
What is on, how many places are left, and whether we can still fit you in. Local attendance only — publisher registration stays a separate authority.
Tonight, 18:30 — synthetic fixture
Full — new names go on the waiting list.
16/16 registered
Next: Event lead. Full — work the demonstration waiting list before check-in.
Local website list only; publisher registration is not connected.
Saturday, 11:30 — synthetic fixture
2 of 8 places still open.
6/8 registered
Next: Event lead. Confirm table and facilitator availability.
Demonstration booking; not an official publisher listing.
No pack comes with instructions for the hobby. These are the answers we give across the counter, written down — a few for the games we deal in.
Pokémon
The artwork will not help you — a reprint usually carries the exact same illustration, which is the whole reason it catches people out. Look at the set symbol next to the collector number instead. That symbol names the set the card was actually printed in, and it is the one thing a reprint cannot share with the original. Learn to find it before you learn anything else.
Pokémon
025/165 means card twenty-five of a set with a hundred and sixty-five cards in it. Where it gets interesting is when the first number is BIGGER than the second — 166/165 is not a misprint, it is a secret rare, printed beyond the numbered run. If you have a card whose number breaks its own set, bring it in and let us look at it properly.
One Piece
One Piece prints the same character at several rarities — the letter in the corner runs C, UC, R, SR up to SEC — but the cards the hobby actually chases are the alternate arts: manga-panel and full-art parallels of the popular characters and Leaders. Two cards can share a number and a name and be worlds apart, because one is the standard print and one is the parallel. Look past the letter to the artwork.
Lorcana
Lorcana's rarities climb Common, Uncommon, Rare, Super Rare and Legendary — but the ones everyone hunts are the Enchanted cards: borderless full-art foils printed BEYOND the numbered run, so a card whose number is higher than the set total is an Enchanted. Same character, different printing, and the difference in what it is worth is enormous. Check the number against the set size first.
Magic
Magic prints the set symbol in the middle of the card, and its colour is the rarity: black for common, silver for uncommon, gold for rare, orange-red for mythic rare. That one glance tells you more than the art, the name or the mana cost. It is the fastest habit to learn in the hobby and almost nobody teaches it to beginners.
Gundam
The Gundam Card Game only launched in 2025, and on a game this young there are no decades of reprints muddying the water yet — a clean copy from an early set is as close to the source as it gets, which is exactly why condition and first printings carry weight. Learn the rarity marks (Common, Uncommon, Rare, Super Rare and the higher pull rarities above them) and check the set code before you decide what you are holding.
Every code
Cards live in pockets, and it shows in the same four places every time: the corners, the edges, the surface and the centring. Centring is the one most people have never heard of — how evenly the border frames the picture — and it is decided at the printer, before anybody has touched the card. Two identical cards can be worlds apart on it.
Every code
Do not clean them. Every year somebody takes a wipe to a card and turns a good one into a damaged one on the way to the shop. Sort them by set if you can, leave them exactly as they are otherwise, and bring the lot — the boring cards tell us what the good ones are worth checking against. We will go through them with you rather than behind a curtain.
Tell us what you have and a human gets back to you. The workflow can organise candidates and photographs; it cannot authenticate, grade, value or make an offer — a person does that.
Tell us what you have and the shop will get back to you. Whole collections, single cards, sealed product — all considered.
What happens to what you send
DEMO-BUY-014
candidate matched; physical review incomplete
Next: Second reviewer. Confirm printing, language and finish against the physical card; no offer exists yet.
DEMO-BUY-015
front/back images received; identity unconfirmed
Next: Intake operator. Inspect the physical card and record evidence before any condition label is accepted.
A useful match narrows the printing; it does not smuggle in physical or commercial claims.
Game · set · collector number · language · finish
Community data or a labelled fixture may suggest identity.
Front · back · edge · surface · provenance
A trained operator examines the actual item; software does not authenticate or grade it.
Owned · reserved · buylist intake · unavailable
Only the shop's own record can state availability or a next action.
Source now: Deterministic Neubor fixture — no external API request. Checked 2026-07-16. The independent community catalogue TCGdex may supply catalogue candidates and images. The market check is a separate licensed port (Scrydex): a dated USD guide observation converted to GBP through a published ECB reference rate, shown only when a server-only key and an attested external-display right are both configured. No price is ever guessed, and a GBP figure never appears without the rate, its date and its source.
Your 24/7 shop assistant
Opening times, availability, prices and services — Lumen answers from the shop's verified systems, any time of day.
This venue and its opening information are demonstration fixtures. A paying client supplies and verifies their real staffed location, accessibility, play-space and arrival facts.
Every enabled screen here runs on the real shared platform against this demo's own database. Some capabilities are deliberately held back, and this is exactly which.