It's the end of 2025 and it's time to make way for the holidays. Product rearrangement, customer flow, event scheduling, and sales theory are a few of the things we'll be discussing this week.

How closely does your LGS mirror some of what we discuss? Have they changed product and case facing? Dusted off old products? Let us know!

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As we head into Avatar the Last Airbender to round out 2025 and then see a slate of primarily Universes Beyond based sets in 2026, we wanted to discuss what we seeing and hearing at the LGS level. How are players handling the announcement and how do they feel?

Is the Universes Beyond experiment being lauded or panned? Are we seeing the growth WotC espoused or have things stagnated and why? This week we breakdown the hype around Universes Beyond.

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We've spent years traveling for events so you don't have to!

This week we discuss what we've learned while tripping around and traveling for Magic events. What cities we enjoy the most, some traditions we have in each, some tips, tricks, and hacks we've learned over time.

Halt even discusses his newest "hack" to ensure you don't get hit with the dreaded "TSA Deck Check"!

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This week we discuss what it's like to vend sports cards and vending at sports cards shows. What are some of the details that make them different, and possily better than a Magic Con or Magic Fest.What goes into running and staffing a booth? What kind of local variance is there and do you need to account for it?And with this discussion, we ask an important question: is pivoting to sports cards a positive move.Picks of the week: https://goo.gl/2hHEfdFind us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/MTGCabalCAstiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mtg-cabal-cast/id1439847289?mt=2Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/78wBQ3FZyg3dTquca3dxNZStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/mtg-cabal-cast

Marvel's Spider-Man, the 107th Magic the Gathering expansion is on the horizon, which means it's time to review our "hype" assessments for Edge of Eternities.

How accurate were we? Were we off base or was it the children who were?

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We're going back! Back to... Lorwyn and... Strixhave?

2026 will bring us at least two "returns" sets, announced at MC Final Fantasy, buried beneath the announcement of the Avatar: The Last Airbended set, slated for late 2025. WIth the return to Lorwyn, we are heading back to another fan favorite plane, one that players have been clamoring for for what seems like a decade! And also Strixhaven.

Will these sets renew interest in a sputtering Standard format or just bring back great limited environments? What was it like to play these sets in standard the first time around? All this and more on this weeks episode!

It finally happened, Halt vended a Collect-A-Con and it happened to be in his own "backyard"! From start to finish he took copious notes about what he saw and experienced during the event and this week we break down just that.

What happened to Halt at Collect-A-Con Edison, July 2025 edition.

Edge of Eternities, the 106th Magic the Gathering expansion is on the horizon, which means it's time to review our "hype" assessments for Final Fantast.

How accurate were we? Were we off base or was it the children who were?

With the release of Final Fantasy a little over a month ago, we've been able to see what the impact of this massive IP at the LGS level. This week we discuss a few topics that take us from the lead up to release, through its time as the "current set", and ends with the lasting impact we see and think it will have.

If you enjoyed this set at the LGS, definitely stick around!

This past weekend, Thursty went to Fanatics Fest in NYC. So while most people were watching Magic Con: Final Fantasy, he was clinging cardboard, cleats, and deals at the "first" ever Fanatics Fest.

What IS this thing? What was it like? Why even go?! We dig in a bit and breakdown one of the most interesting, non-TCG explicit, events of the year.

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