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MTG: Tarkir Dragonstorm at Level Up Games
Pre-releases at all Level Up Games Locations
Tarkir: Dragonstorm is now available at all 4 Level Up Games locations
Tarkir Information
Q.) What’s a pre-release?
A.) A casual MTG event where you build and play with cards from your event kit containing extra goodies and booster packs from the set. See more info on pre-releases here.
Q.) Why is it called a “pre-release” if LUG can sell items starting the day pre-release events are held?
A.) It’s called a pre-release as Wizards of the Coast has local game store programs which allow us to sell items BEFORE the global release date of MTG sets.
Q.) When will my orders be available for pickup in-store or arrive through shipping?
A.) Online orders will begin shipping on April 4th. In-store orders may be picked up on April 4th.

Black Friday Savings Start Tomorrow at Level Up Games!
Level Up Games is bringing you Black Friday savings all week long in-store, starting 11/25 and ending at business closing hours 12/1.
Whether you’re buying a gift for a friend, getting into tabletop gaming for the first time, or you’re an experienced player, Level Up Games is here to help you find the perfect fit for Black Friday Week!
Check out our Buying Guide below to make your holiday shopping STRESS-FREE! Want more Buying Guides? Be sure to follow our social media and join our Discord to stay up to date on all things Georgia tabletop gaming!
Buying Guide
Trading Card Games
Board Games
Tabletop Roleplaying Games
TCGs
Pokémon: Elite Trainer Boxes are great gifts and pickups for any Pokémon fans! They come with packs of cards with chances for exciting cards to be hidden within, as well as useful and neat items like dice.
A great pickup will all current ETBs on sale (excluding Surging Sparks).
Want to try a refreshing new TCG or pick up a new hobby for the family? Trying Altered TCG with our discounted starter decks has never been easier!
Revolutionary advances in collection, trading, gameplay, and art await you in Altered!
For a showstopping gift or as a much-deserved treat for yourself, get Magic: The Gathering – Murders at Karlov Manor Collector Booster Boxes at low prices!
These boxes contain chances at extremely rare cards, including special serialized alternative art cards!
Board Games
Leder Games, famous in part for its award-winning Root, brings a similarly polished gameplay experience with its new release, Arcs, with less asymmetry. Easier to teach without sacrificing depth!
This delightful family game has been impressing our community since its release. It’s perfect for easy travel, families, or a light tile to start game night.
For the board gamer who has it all, or if you need to bundle up your new collection from our sale!
Sleeves and storage solutions, like our new Spectrum Board Game Bags, are always helpful to board gamers, both new and experienced.
Tabletop Roleplaying Games
The Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook is the main rulebook for the most popular tabletop RPG, containing everything you need to make characters and start playing!
Perfect for new players, Starter Boxes typically come with a shorter version of a game’s rules, pre-made characters, dice, tools, and a pre-made adventure or two for a lower price than a main rule book.
RPGs come in all sorts of genres, gameplay mechanics, and aesthetics, so a starter box is a great way to sample the variety out there!
If you’re an experienced player or shopping for one, we recommend using our Black Friday Week Sale to pick up a new Core Book (main rule book).
We have a range of solo play RPGs like In the Ashes to scratch that RPG itch when game night gets canceled or some “me time” is in order!
We also have a HUGE variety of RPGs in stock. Just let staff know what kind of shows/books/games you or your loved one is into, and we can find a perfect fit for you!
If you’re picking up all these shiny new toys, join our Discord to see tabletop gaming events and chat with fellow hobby enthusiasts!
We would also love to answer any questions you have this holiday season in our Discord or in person at our Duluth, Dawsonville, Athens, or John’s Creek locations!
P.S.
Our Games Workshop sale is so steep that we can’t tell you what it is here! Stop by to see the huge savings in person!
What to expect from MTG: Foundations
MTG: Foundations, set for release in November, is designed to serve as a common base for new and returning magic players to build their collections.
If you’re thinking about building your first deck, or you recently got into the hobby during Bloomburrow and Duskmourn’s release, the cards and products in Foundations have been carefully curated to be excellent tools to expand on those first few packs or commander decks you picked up.
What exactly does that mean?
This means that card types and colors will be presented in clear and distinct ways. Some MTG sets will bend, break, or experiment with players’ expectations so that certain themes or new game mechanics can excite players.
The MTG colors you either already know and love or are coming to know will operate in a very ” first-principles” way. These colors are Blue, Red, Green, Black, and White. Most cards fall under one or more color identities and act accordingly. MTG: Foundations is the perfect set to crack open a few packs and discover how these colors interact in a game, what they typically do, and what players they are trying to appeal to.
For example, expect Green identity cards in Foundations to do the things Green is famous for: BIG monsters, making extra mana – also known as “ramping”- to be able to play those monsters, and powering up their creatures’ stats.
That isn’t to say there won’t be complex and exciting strategies in Foundations—far from it—but these strategies and game pieces will lend themselves to the deep DNA that makes the game’s color ecosystem tick.
Sound Interesting? Here’s how to start playing with MTG Foundations
Here’s the breakdown of what items MTG: Foundations is bringing, starting with the two items explicitly designed for the brand-new or newer MTG player.
Beginner Box: A guided tutorial for one or two players that boosts your collection
$29.99
If you’ve seen some YouTube clips and are interested in MTG or have a buddy begging you to come to Friday Night Magic but haven’t pulled the trigger yet, the Beginner Box is for you! Its two key items are a pair of guided tutorial game decks and 10 Jumpstart packs.
20 card tutorial game decks (Cats and Vampires) come with a step-by-step guide booklet to walk you through your first five turns.
Once players have a basic understanding of the game, they can jump into their first pack openings! Jumpstart packs are simple. They are predetermined-themed sets opened in pairs and shuffled together to make a deck. Ten packs mean five deck experiences for each player to create, pilot, and add to their collections!
Starter Collection:+350 cards and 3 play booster packs that immediately boost your deckbuilding tools and let you explore MTG’s history. Perfect for altering your store-bought or pre-release deck.
$59.99
The Starter Collection is the perfect boost for the MTG player who has played a few Commander games with their Bloomburrow or Duskmourn pre-assembled decks (those decks you bought in-store that were ready out-of-the-box) and wants to add some customization and personal flair to them or jump into the standard format after playing at pre-release.
Each copy comes with +350 cards from MTG’s past. This breadth of choice lets you discover what art, mechanics, and themes inspire you to create new decks!
There are also 3 MTG: Foundations Play Boosters to add to the excitement, tokens cards, and more inside!
MTG: Foundations Play Booster Boxes: Exciting packs that may contain rare and foiled cards - can be used to draft, play sealed, or add to your collection for other formats.
$139.99
Play boosters are the definitive way to discover a new MTG set. Crack some packs to see what you get, add to your collection, and get inspired by your pulls. Great for new and returning MTG players to boost their collection with chances at foil and higher rarity cards.
Play Booster contents:
14 Magic: The Gathering cards
6–9 Commons
4–5 Uncommons
1–4 Rares or mythic rares
1 Card of any rarity is a traditional foil
MTG: Foundations Collector Booster Box: This is for those wanting maximum collectability - booster packs with chances for the juiciest rare cards cranked to the max!
$229.99
Collector Boosters offer the highest chances for the most sought-after foils, rares, and special treatment cards. You can open fracture foil Japan Showcase cards, mana foils, and extended-art cards in Foundations Collector Boosters. These boxes are great for those wanting to fully bling out their decks or as a jaw-dropping gift to the planeswalker in your life!
Collector Booster contents:
15 Magic: The Gathering cards
12–13 Traditional foil cards
Includes 5 cards of rarity rare or higher and 4 uncommons, 5 commons, and 1 land
Fracture foil Japan Showcase card in < 1% of boosters
Now Let's Play!
If I’ve done my job, you now understand what to expect from MTG: Foundations. If you’d like to swing by our Level Up Games locations to join in on the fun, I’ll leave you with a few events you can check out.
-If you want to try a sealed event, where you build a deck using a few card packs from MTG: Foundations, sign up for our MTG: Foundations Pre-Release events. This is your first chance to play with a new MTG set. The first day of these events is also the day LUG locations may sell a new set:
Dawsonville: November 8th – 9th
Johns Creek: November 8th & 10th
-If you want to check out our weekly MTG events at our locations, head to our Discord and see our “Weekly Events” channel to pick a day to meet our community.
You can see exactly what is waiting for you in MTG: Foundations on MTG’s Card Image Gallery.
And welcome to our MTG community!
Every Level Up Games Location is YOUR Location: Transfers, Orders, and More
Duluth Location
Transfers
No matter which of our locations you are shopping from: Duluth, John’s Creek, Athens, or Dawsonville, know that you have the support of each and everyone of them at your fingertips!
If you can’t find something in one of our stores while you’re shopping, you can always ask our staff members to see if we have it at our other locations.
With four game stores worth of items, we probably have you covered! Our locations can pull from each other’s inventory and get you that item you need quickly. Transfers are taken between our stores Thursday nights – Friday afternoons.
Once your item arrives, you will get a call from store staff.
Orders and Holds
If you are on the hunt for a specific item, you are always welcome to ask if any location have it in stock on our social media platforms like our Discord or call (numbers are in the top right of this webpage).
In our Discord, we have a specific “product requests and arrivals” channel where you can directly message store staff about items. Use @LevelUp(whatever store you are messaging) in your message to ping them!
If the store has the item, they will hold it up to 7 days for your arrival, or longer with a deposit made in store.
And if that location doesn’t have your item, we can transfer a copy or order one in for you. You’ll get a ring when it’s ready for pickup!
Athens Location
Webstore
Some of our items are available on this website (scroll up to “online store”) for in store pickup or direct shipping to your front door. If you don’t see an item online, be sure to give us a call or shoot us a message to see if we have it in our brick-and-mortar local GA stores!
Modern Horizons 3 Commander Decks: Enter the Format with Power
Whether you are looking to jump into the most popular format in Magic: The Gathering, Commander, or are a veteran of kitchen tables or LGS pods, Modern Horizon 3 commander preconstructed decks are a perfect way to get you and your playgroup gaming with powerful cards and synergies right out of the box!
Each of these decks comes with:
100 cards in a ready-to-play deck
1 Modern Horizons 3 two-card Collector Booster Sample Pack
1 Life Wheel
1 Deck Box
13 Completely new cards
And more!
Check out some highlights of each deck below!
Tricky Terrain is a classic Simic deck that loves to do the things Blue/Green players love to do: ramp, draw cards, and slam down impactful creatures that either demand a path to exile for their threat level or do Simic things (ramp or draw) when they enter the battlefield.
Plus, it brings a refreshing new theme of “cares about land types” to the game with its main commander, Omo, Queen of Vesuva. This Shapshifter noble can place “everything counters” onto lands to make them every land type and every non-land creatures every creature type.
Eldrazi Incursion brings everyone’s favorite monstrosities beyond the material to the battlefield with all-new horrifying bells and whistles! It carries deeply about casting Eldrazi spells and getting all those hulking Eldrazi buddies onto the battlefield.
Ulalek, Fused Attocity, the face commander of this deck, has all colors/colorless symbols in its mana cost and the Devoid keyword. This means players can indulge in cards from the entire color wheel while ushering in fellow Eldrazi from The Blind Eternities. And with its ability to copy Eldrazi spells and their triggered/activiated abilities, players can expect EXPLOSIVE turns from this deck!
Creative Energy takes each piece of the Red/White/Blue (insert eagle screech) game plan and delivers a holistic and impactful package that scratches that Red desire to smack face good with the temperament of the other colors for card draw and tricks.
Satya, Aetherflux Genius helms this deck. Menace, haste, and his ability to make attacking copies of creatures while creating additional value means he’s a powerhouse as soon as he hits the battlefield on those early turns when players may not have blockers to sacrifice to Satya’s onslaught.
Graveyard Overdrive will delight Jund players with its pesky graveyard shenanigans, discard synergies, removal, and focus on a veteran favorite creature type that just loves when cards pile up in that graveyard!
Graveyard Overdrive, headed by Disa the Restless highlights the Lhurgoyf creature type made famous by the classic creature card Tarmogoyf that left a destructive path in yesteryears of Magic: The Gathering’s tournaments. Well it’s back! And…they keep. coming. back. as Disa makes sure to make more and more Tarmogoyf tokens as you bludgen your opponents into a ‘yard they ain’t getting reanimated out of!
Preorders are open now for cases of these decks here on our website! We expect these items to go quickly on release day, so ensure your collection today!
See the full decklists here on Wizards of the Coast’s website.
Taste a Better Game Night with Many Worlds Tavern Coffees & Teas
A love for gorgeous cards with intricate rules.
A drive for uncovering the inner workings of a strategic board game.
The love of silly, cut-lose experiences that keep parties fresh.
Gamers have all kinds of tastes that should be celebrated! Our friends over at Many Worlds Tavern agree and think every sense should get to enjoy game night! We just got a restock of some of their high-quality teas and coffees, which are the perfect complement to your next nerdy get-together, so we thought we’d tell you why you should care about these awesome folks!
Not only will their many flavor profiles taste delectable and leave you feeling rejuvenated in those long gaming sessions, but you can also feel great knowing they care about the gaming community! They have an “Every Bag Purchased” donation policy, helping fund worthy causes in our community.
Rich coffees, aromatic teas, and helping out the gaming community — Great! But that’s not all! For their special monthly flavors,“Fabled Foliage” for teas and “Treasured Realms” for coffees, beverage connoisseurs can tap into the loot goblin in all gamers’ hearts with additional magic item cards in your Treasured Realm boxes and spell cards in your Fabled Foliage boxes alongside a collectible Realm sticker and a full RPG dice set in both varieties!
If you’re looking for the perfect Game Master gift or just want a boost of flavor and energy at game night, come by this weekend to stock up on Many Worlds Tavern loose-leaf teas and coffees (instant, ground, and whole bean are available in some locations!) before your next boss battle!
Ridin’ Checklist for Your Outlaws of Thunder Junction Prerelease
With the Outlaws of Thunder Junction Prerelease Events right around the corner, we thought it mighty right to cover some essentials for your prerelease events. So here is a short guide to pulling off the biggest heist!
But first, what is a prerelease, and what do you do? At a prerelease event you are given a kit that contains 6 packs of Outlaws of Thunder Junction, and a promo card. You can use the cards in your kit to build your best 40 card deck. You will then play 3 rounds of Magic with your new limited deck. Each round is a best of three and you are free to add or change your deck using only the cards from your prerelease kit.
So now knowing what a prerelease is and how it works, but how can you make it better?
Step 1
Step 1 is making sure that you are registered for the event. We have three different locations all running these events the weekend of April 12th. Make sure you sign up for the correct day, time, and store. Click on the store location below for the Outlaws of Thunder Junction prerelease registration of your choice.
Step 2
Step 2 is having the right tools for the job. We like to recommend having a fresh pack of sleeves on hand to sleeve up your deck. Sleeves like the Double Sleeving Pack from Gamegenic. Sleeves make shuffling cards a dream, as well as help protect em’ from harm.
We also recommend having a deck box that is big enough to store your deck and the extra cards from your prerelease kit. There are plenty o’ options to choose from when it comes to boxes. The Bastion or Squire from Gamegenic are great options.
Finally, we recommend a way to take notes and keep life totals. There are a few accessories you can pick up like LifeLink life counter made by Die Hard Dice or a Jot 8.5 Boogie Board. Both are great options and something that you can use at your next showdown to boot!
Step 3
Step 3 is to look over the new mechanics of Outlaws of Thunder Junction. Outlaws of Thunder Junction introduces the concept of crimes. Any spell or ability that targets an opponent, or their stuff (spells, permanents, hand, library) is committing a crime. Since this is a plane of outlaws, committing crimes is incentivized, not punished. In the villain set, you get to be the villain.
The set also introduces the plot mechanic. It’s similar to both foretell and suspend. When you pay a card’s plot cost, it goes into exile, and you can cast it on a later turn without paying its mana cost (as a sorcery). Plot can be used to hold cards up for explosive turns, but your hand’s on the table: opponents can see the plotted cards and plan around them.
Saddle is a keyword ability associated with the new Mount creature type. In a similar way to the Crew ability, it is activated by tapping any number of creatures you control with total power equal to or greater than the saddle value. Creatures with saddle, unlike Vehicles, can still attack and block like normal, but they have powerful abilities that only trigger when they become saddled or attack while saddled.
Finally, spree is a keyword found on instants and sorceries that grants them modality in a very similar way to escalate. Spells with spree have several effects, each with an additional cost. However, these costs can be different from each other. A spell with spree can have a very different impact when it’s cast in the early game using cheaper effects than when it’s cast as a finisher going all-out on expensive effects.
Step 4
Step 4 is to have fun! Prerelease events are casual fun events for all levels of players. They offer the first chance to learn and play with the new cards, and with a great community and fun environment, we can’t recommend attending these events enough.
Hope to see you saunterin’ on through our doors soon!
Level Up Birthday and John’s Creek Grand Opening
March 4th marks the fourth year of Level Up’s beginnings and the grand opening of our newest location in John’s Creek. It’s been a challenging four years with the “plague that shall not be mentioned” and through it all you, the amazing loyal customer, have helped us grow from a small store into three! We cannot express our gratitude enough and are humbled by the awesome community that has supported Level Up.
Please come out on March 4th for special events, prizes, fun stuff, and just say hi and let us thank you for making it all happen. Our John’s Creek will be kicking off with an appearance by the DeLorean and the 1989 Batmobile and BATMAN himself!!! Please check out our Facebook and Discord pages for specifics and we hope you can come celebrate with us.