TJ Collectibles Celebrates 20 Years

 TJ Collectibles is celebrating 20 years of business, and we’d like to thank YOU, our customers, for giving us the pleasure of serving you for the past 20 years. Please stop in and help us celebrate! The fun begins this Friday, March 16th, at  Friday Night Magic. Come down and play some Magic and share a piece of our 20th anniversary cake! Yes, FREE CAKE! Bring your friends for some good Magic fun!

On Saturday, March 17, we’ve got PTQ Barcelona at 10:00 am to continue the fun! Come and see if you have the skills to win the invite and travel voucher to Pro TOur Barcelona! We’ll also have a FREE Second Chance Event- if your PTQ day isn’t going the way you planned, you can play in a Grand Prix Trial for Grand Prix Salt Lake City. The format for both events is Modern. We’ll also have MORE CAKE! Yes, MORE FREE CAKE!

The fun continues on Sunday, March 18. We’ve got a Platinum TCG Player Qualifier tournament with $1000 in CA$H on the line. Come and win some of Tom Shea’s money!
If comics are your favorite, today’s the day to stop by and meet artist Paul Ryan! He’ll be here at noon to sign autographs and make some sketches.
One more time- you guessed it- FREE CAKE! We’ll have even MORE cake! Come and share some cake and celebrate!

That’s not all! All weekend long, we’ll have a special sale for our comic fans as a big THANK YOU for doing business with us. Check out the deals available all weekend long!

Comic Specials

 

Comic Sets: Buy 1, get one 50% off. Subscribers buy one, get one FREE!

 

New Wall Books: Buy 2, get 1 FREE. Subscriners buy 1, get 1 FREE!

 

Marvel Essentials: Buy 1, get 1 FREE. Subscribers get 50% off!

 

Trade Paperbacks: 30% Off! Subscribers get 40% off!

 

Manga: Buy 1, get 1 FREE. Subscribers get 50% off!

 

Fill a long box for $40.00!

 

Crazy Massive Hardcover Sale~ Titles as low as $5.00 each!

Thank you for a wonderful 20 years! Come celebrate with us!

New In the Retail Store

Wednesdays at TJ’s are always great fun! Wednesday means New Comic Book Day, Wednesday Night Magic Booster Drafts, and Dungeons & Dragons Encounters. Dave and Paul have unpacked and shelved today’s new products, so come and see us today!

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Yu-Gi-Oh “Photon Shockwave” Details Revealed

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Konami has released details on the Photon Shockwave core booster release, which will street November 15th (originally announced at San Diego Comic-Con).  Top new cards will include Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, with the power to take a monster with it to a distant galaxy; Rescue Rabbit, which can become a Normal Monster’s best friend; and D-Boyz, which can boost some of the most popular theme decks.

For purchasers of the Lost Sanctuary Structure Deck, the set will nclude ten new LIGHT monsters, Spells, and Trap Cards to power up the LIGHT monsters.  Cards that fit well with Generation Force, Hidden Arsenal 5: Steelswarm Invasion, and Gates of the Underworld Structure Deck are all included.

Packs of nine cards from the 100-card set will retail for $3.99.

Dark Horse Planning New Star Wars Comics

Comic book publisher Dark Horse has announced, according to ICv2.com, plans for several new Star Wars comic book titles including a Jedi origin store and a death story for popular character Boba Fett. Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi will examine a previously unexplored time period taking place some 25,000 years before the events in the famous six Star Wars films. This new series is slated to debut in February.

The events following the death of Boba Fett will be released in Star Wars: Blood Ties—Boba Fett is Dead.

The next Knight Errant title, the five-issue arc Star Wars: Knight Errant—Escape, will launch in June 2012.

Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison, a five issue miniseries will launch in May 2012.  The setting is a year after Revenge of the Sith, and in addition to Darth Vader, characters include Moff Trachta, who plays a key role.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic—War will launch on January 11, 2012.  It’s set during the war between the Republic and the Mandalorians, in which the Jedi are involved, and is being positioned as an entry point for readers interested in the Star Wars universe.

Remember everyone, if you’re a comic book fan, you can order these books and many more from TJ Collectibles! Subscribe with us and have your books bagged & boarded for you and ready to read every week! All you have to do is sign up. It’s that easy! Please visit our brick-and-mortar store for more details. You can also manage your TJ Collectibles comic book subscription with Comixology!

Innistrad Event Decks – Now On Sale

Today is Friday, October 28th – and that means the long awaited Innistrad Event Decks have arrived and are on sale now! Whether you live locally or far away, no problem; both our brick-and-mortar store in Milford, MA and our online store have these awesome new decks in stock and ready to sell/ship! Only $19.95. Domestic ship only.

Each deck is a ready-to-play, 60-card deck complete with a full 15-card sideboard. These are great for anyone looking to supplement their collection with a new deck and/or those who have always wanted to play the popular Standard constructed format, but never had a deck. Moreover, these decks are perfect for casual Friday Night Magic players, making this product perfect for TJ Collectibles‘ FREE Friday Night Magic.

Deathfed is a black-blue-green deck designed to take advantage of the late game with incremental advantages and taking advantage of Innistrad’s graveyard theme with powerful spells.

Main Deck 60 cards
13  Forest 1  Hinterland Harbor 7  Island 3  Swamp 24 lands 2  Acidic Slime 4  Armored Skaab 1  Birds of Paradise 4  Boneyard Wurm 4  Llanowar Elves 2  Merfolk Looter 1  Splinterfright 3  Viridian Emissary 21 creatures	2  Bonehoard 4  Forbidden Alchemy 1  Gnaw to the Bone 1  Green Sun’s Zenith 4  Mulch 1  Ratchet Bomb 2  Spider Spawning 15 other spells Sideboard 4  Flashfreeze 2  Gnaw to the Bone 2  Mind Control 3  Naturalize 4  Negate 15 sideboard cards

 

Hold the Line, on the other hand, is a mono-white aggressive deck designed to lay down the beats and never stop. This deck utilizes cheap, efficient and aggressive creatures to bring the pain to the opponent as quickly as possible.

Main Deck 60 cards
24  Plains 24 lands 4  Accorder Paladin 1  Champion of the Parish 4  Doomed Traveler 1  Elite Inquisitor 2  Elite Vanguard 4  Fiend Hunter 4  Gideon’s Lawkeeper 2  Mirran Crusader 22 creatures	4  Bonds of Faith 2  Butcher’s Cleaver 2  Honor of the Pure 4  Oblivion Ring 2  Silver-Inlaid Dagger 14 other spells Sideboard 4  Celestial Purge 4  Leonin Relic-Warder 1  Nevermore 3  Nihil Spellbomb 3  Suture Priest 15 sideboard cards

Premium Deck Series Graveborn Packaging Revealed

Greetings dear readers! The packaging for the up coming release of Premium Deck Series: Graveborn has been revealed! No, your eyes do not deceive you: that IS an Entomb you see!

Description, courtesy of Wizards of the Coast:

Legions of corpses await your sinister commands. This 60-card, all-foil deck entombs, exhumes, and reanimates some of the most powerful Magic creatures from all five colors of mana. Harvest your graveyard for an assortment of these face-beaters as you walk over a field of bones to claim your victory.

Contents:

• 60-card premium foil deck, including 8 rare cards
• Exclusive Spindown life counter
• Foil deck box
• Strategy insert
• Magic “learn to play” guide

Deck Design and Development: David Humpherys
Release Date: November 18, 2011
MSRP: $34.99

Remember, you can preorder this awesome product from us online. Just click here!

Wizards Shifts Release Patterns with “Koth Vs. Venser”

Wizards of the Coast has announced a change to their release schedule for the Magic Duel Deck products, reported by ICv2.com. Starting with the release of Duel Deck: Koth Vs. Venser, the planeswalker v. planeswalker Duel Deck products will be released every spring while the faction v. faction Duel Deck products will be released every October. This will allow Wizards to have these great products tie into larger set releases more closely.

Duel Decks: Koth vs. Venser is designed by WotC R&D members Chris Millar and Mark Gottlieb.  They include two premium foil, alternate art mythic-rare Planeswalker cards and two 60-card decks.  Koth looks to Venser to help defend Mirrodin against Phyrexia, and the players recreate the struggle to save Mirrodin.

MSRP is $19.99.

Wizards announces “Lords of Waterdeep”

Wizards of the Coast has announced the new release of Lords of Waterdeep, a “Euro-style” D&D-based board game set in Waterdeep, a city from the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, in March of 2012.

The game, designed by Peter Lee and Rodney Thompson, is for two to five players and takes about one hour to play.

Players are cast as Lords of Waterdeep that hire adventurers to complete quests.

Components include a board; rulebook; five card stock player mats; 121 Intrigue, Quest, and role cards; 130 wooden cubes, pawns, and score pieces; wooden player markers; and card stock tiles and tokens representing buildings, gold coins, and victory points.

WotC’s MSRP is $49.99.

Source: ICv2.com

Announcing Pokemon Black & White Noble Victories Release Events

It’s time for an exclusive sneak peak at the next set in the Pokemon Black & White series – Noble Victories! This is your chance to play with this brand new set before it is released in stores. Please join us at the following locations and see if you can “catch ‘em all!”

Registration for all events begins at 10:15 AM with a prompt 11:00 AM start time. Please visit our event calender for more details.

Saturday, October 29th:

The Grid Games – Manchester, CT
Game Castle – Manchester, NH
Science & Hobbies – Waterviliet, NY

Sunday, October 30th:

Harrison’s – Salem, MA
X-9 Games – Hadley, MA

Saturday, November 5th:

Game On – Warwick, RI
Batter Up – Tewksbury, MA

Sunday, November 6th:

TJ Collectibles – Milford, MA

We hope you’re as excited as we are. Oh, and don’t forget about Pokemon Regionals in November, too! See you there everyone!

 

Announcing Innistrad League

Wizards of the Coast has announced a new organized play program called Innistrad League. Here’s how it works: Each league “season” is six weeks long. Participants each received six booster packs of Innistrad with which to build a minimum 40-card deck with and battle against opponents. Over the course of the league, participants will be given additional booster packs to change up their decks as well. In addition, there will be special league-only rules that change weekly with the phases of Innistrad’s “moon.” And of course, there are cool prizes, too!

For example, the first week is “quiet moon,” in which there are no special rules; the second week, “new moon,” all creatures get +1/+0; in the third week, each player draws eight cards at the start of the game and the maximum hand size becomes eight; for week four, each player will begin the game at 25 life; Week five allows for each player to play up to two lands per turn; and finally week six all creatures have haste.

Certainly adds some interesting design elements to those who design their decks to take advantage of these rules.

At the end of the league, cool prizes and posters will be awarded to the top finishers.

Is this something you would like TJ Collectibles to run? We can do it! Sound off and please let us know if you’re interested by contacting us or let us know in person. We’ll be happy to get it going for you!