Ancient Origins Prereleases

Limited Seating

Only 36 seats guaranteed each location, Purchase tickets online at secondcitygym.eventbrite.com to guarantee your seat. Remaining seats available on site, if any, will be cash only.

More Packs

Get more packs at our events! In addition to the standard Prerelease – play 3 rounds with 6 packs of the new set, get 2 more packs when you return your borrowed energy for a total of 8 packs with your admission – we have more ways for you to get packs!

  • Random Goodness. Every round we give away 3 packs of the new set!
  • Trade your Code Cards. Give us 8 code cards from the new set and get a pack from a recent set! You really should be playing PTCGO, but if you don’t we’ll make the trade.
  • Support the store Raffle. Save your receipts from purchases during the event; print your name on the back and give them to our scorekeeper; for every $5 you personally spend with the store and document with a receipt, you get an entry in a raffle to win 6 packs of a recent set! Drawing at start of round 3.

Event Listing

Sat Aug 1st, 6pm – MTG Deals, San Gabriel
136 South San Gabriel Boulevard, San Gabriel, CA 91776
Limited seating; buy tickets online to guarantee seating. On-site tickets not guaranteed and cash only.

Sun Aug 2nd, 1pm – All Ways Gaming, Chatsworth
21032 Devonshire Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311
Limited seating; buy tickets online to guarantee seating. On-site tickets not guaranteed and cash only.

How to Participate

  1. Register online to guarantee a seat, or line up for space available at the venue for your event within 30 minutes after the listed start time (pay $30 cash only).
  2. We give you 6 packs (and loan you energy) to play 3 rounds.
  3. Return the energy and collect 2 more packs!

AORAncient Origins

Get ready to stun your opponents with some new tricks in the Pokémon TCG: XY—Ancient Origins expansion! Hoopa-EX brings new Mythical power to the Pokémon TCG world, along with fierce new challengers like Mega Tyranitar-EX, Mega Ampharos-EX, and Mega Sceptile-EX! The XY—Ancient Originsexpansion transforms ancient secrets into modern battling techniques, with all-new Special Energy cards, new Ancient Traits, and Shiny versions of Primal Kyogre-EX, Primal Groudon-EX, and Mega Rayquaza-EX! The power of the ancients is unbound!

The XY—Ancient Origins expansion includes:

  • Over 90 cards
  • 11 new Pokémon-EX, including 3 Mega Evolution Pokémon and a new Mythical Pokémon
  • New Shiny versions of Primal Kyogre-EX, Primal Groudon-EX, and Mega Rayquaza-EX

Play it August 1 & 2 with Second City Gym at All Ways Gaming and MTG Deals. Look for the XY—Ancient Origins expansion in stores and on PokemonCenter.comstarting August 12, 2015.