Sorry for the delay on content. We’ve had back-to-back weekends of conventions and have been running around like the proverbial headless chicken. Anyway, we just got this order in for our next show, Louisville Galaxycon. If you like what you see, come visit us there. Enjoy the video, see you at the Gym!
Don’t forget to join us this Sunday in Fincastle for a League Challenge!
League Leaders are all on the road this week with various Pokemon endeavors! From demonstrations and Build & Battle events in Charlotte to competitions in the wilds of West Virginia – we have decided to ask our dogs to run Pokemon League on Sunday 11/10. Unfortunately, they have other commitments, so we’ll have to cancel. See you next week (11/17 for a Standard format League Challenge!)
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Check out our latest videos of opening the brand new Cosmic Eclipse set. The set goes on sale tomorrow, 11/1/19. Dark Moon Cards and Games will have everything from the videos and more with them this weekend at Nekocon. What we bring home will by available online beginning Monday, 11/4/19. Check it out, some very beautiful cards in this set:
We will have league at our normal time this Sunday, 11/3/19. See you at the Gym!
The Gym and Dark Moon Cards and Games just posted our latest product review, which also includes the opening of 10 Hidden Fates packs. Check it out at the link below:
Hidden Fates Ultra Ball Collection Review
Check back this week and we showcase the opening of an entire case (6 booster boxes) of Cosmic Eclipse.
Monday was the Fincastle Gym’s Cosmic Eclipse pre-release at Just Games Lexington. Check out this footage of both Noah S and Gym Leader Joel opening their kits and building their decks.
Cosmic Eclipse Event at Just Games Lexington
Join us this weekend at Meeples Cafe in Lynchburg on Saturday, 10/26/19 and then in Fincastle at the library on Sunday, 10/27/19, for 2 more Cosmic Eclipse pre-releases and the annual costume contest in Fincastle. See you at the Gym!
Check out Dark Moon Cards and Games’ latest video explaining what a pre-release is, what happens during one and why we value these events.
Join us a one or all of our upcoming Cosmic Eclipse releases and come see Joel this weekend at the Baltimore Comic Con. Continue reading
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Tagged Cosmic Eclipse, Fincastle Gym, Fincastle Library, Pokemon Halloween Costume Contest, pokemon trading card game, Prerelease, promo cards
Check out the final match, a best 2 of 3 match between Seth Poore, playing “Green’s Reshizard” against Logan Honts playing “Pikarom”.
Remember Napster? If you were born after 2000, then you surely don’t. Nowadays, you can go to Amazon, purchase a song and download it in about 20 seconds, if it takes that long. At the turn of the last century (makes it sound like a very long time ago), you went to Napster, chose the song you wanted to illegally download, then watched and waited for 2.5, maybe 3 hours or more while your 3 minute song downloaded over your dial-up connection. It was painful. And what does have to do with this match? Well, thanks to where we live, the forgotten part of our county on the forgotten side of the state of Virginia, uploading a video to YouTube takes me back to the days of Napster. We have three matches from Sunday. We started uploading this one last night at about 10pm. It finished this morning a little after 7am. I think our connection to the internet involves some fishing line, a few cans and some Bisquick.
With that being said, here is the first match from Round 3 where one of our junior competitors, Noah S, faced senior, John H. Both were among our 6 players that qualified for Worlds in August. More videos are on the way… very slowly. Enjoy.
The Fincastle Gym and Dark Moon Cards & Games are thrilled to announce the launch of our YouTube channel! This has been something that Gym Leader Joel has wanted to do for quite some time, but just did not have the time and more importantly, the understanding to do. You know what it’s like trying to explain to your parent/grandparent how to use their first smart phone? Well, it probably wasn’t that bad, but it is in the same ballpark. And in no way, shape or form have we fully figured it out. For right now, we have a camera, a channel and some editing software, and we’re fine with that for now. What we’ve noticed over the last several years here is that the migration of the world to the smart phone has decreased the desire and ability of people to absorb long written articles, like the ones that we have focused on since 2012. As times change, so must we.
Before we go any further, here is the link to the channel:
Dark Moon Cards & Games – YouTube
Our plan is for the channel to provide a mix of media for our leagues (both in Fincastle & Lexington) and to share with you many of the products available in our store (Dark Moon Cards & Games), as well as products only available at conventions we attend. Unfortunately, the launch has been more Wright Brothers than Space X… we planned to launch the site with several videos at once, not knowing that thanks to SW Virginia internet speeds, it would take 3 days to upload 6 videos. At any rate, our first wave of material includes product reviews of the Porygon Z GX box and the Hidden Fates Elite Trainer Kit and the accompanying opening of those items.
We will try and capture at least the finals of our League Cup this Sunday, October 6, and bring you that content as well. At future league meetings, we will 
try to pick up some games, or a featured match on days that time and attendance allow. We have no intention of becoming a deck analysis site, as one more lamb bleating on a mountain already full of sheep won’t offer you anything but more sheep breath. If we play something fun or come up with something different, we may share it on the channel.
The majority of future posts here will simply be to alert you to new content on the channel. So, please check back here as often as you like. To help us continue our long running league and business, we’d also like to ask that you “Like” as many videos you’d like (that’s like a lot of likes) and “Subscribe” to our channel. We will work to improve our content and video quality as we gain some much needed experience. We’re always open to ideas, so feel free to contact us with any suggestions. Head over to our channel when you get a chance. Until next time, see you at the Gym!
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