The Sun City Card Show closes out its 2026 calendar with a two-day finale on Saturday and Sunday, December 12 and 13, at the Starlight Event Center. This is the last Borderland card show of the year and the promoter treats it that way: more tables, more dealers making the drive from Las Cruces, Albuquerque, Tucson, and Midland, and a floor stocked for holiday shoppers rather than pure hobby traffic.
December shopping changes the inventory mix in ways worth knowing before you walk in. Dealers load up on sealed product, complete factory sets, starter-friendly Pokemon bundles, and display-ready graded slabs in the fifty to three hundred dollar range, because those are the things people buy as gifts. That is good news if you are shopping for someone else and slightly less good if you are hunting a specific vintage single, though the vintage tables are still here in force. Sports inventory covers MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, UFC, boxing, MMA, soccer, and college football, spanning pre-war tobacco and vintage Topps, Bowman, Fleer, and Goudey through 1990s junk-wax bins and current-year Prizm, Donruss Optic, Select, Mosaic, Topps Chrome, and Bowman Draft, plus premium National Treasures, Flawless, and Immaculate in the locked cases. Liga MX soccer, Mexican boxing, lucha libre, El Paso Chihuahuas, UTEP Miners, Dallas Cowboys, and Texas Rangers material is a Borderland specialty here.
The TCG side is strongest in December. Pokemon singles and sealed run from vintage WOTC Base Set through modern Scarlet & Violet and Japanese imports, with Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Disney Lorcana, Dragon Ball Z Fusion World, and Digimon all represented. Expect long lines at the sealed-product tables on Saturday morning.
Saturday runs 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM Mountain Time and Sunday runs 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM Mountain Time. General admission is three dollars per day, children twelve and under enter free with a paying adult, and weekend passes and any VIP early-entry tickets are sold in advance through suncitycardshow915.com. Door prizes, pack giveaways, and dealer raffles run both days while supplies last.
Starlight Event Center is located at 6650 Continental Drive, El Paso, TX 79925, on the east side near the airport with direct access from I-10 and Loop 375. Parking is free and on site. The room is one open climate-controlled ballroom, which matters in December when the desert mornings run cold.
Who should attend: holiday shoppers, families, Pokemon collectors, serious vintage buyers, and out-of-town collectors making a weekend of it. Dealers clearing year-end inventory make Sunday afternoon the best negotiating window of the entire 2026 calendar.
Tips: come Saturday for selection and Sunday for price. Set a firm budget before you walk in, because December floors are designed to separate you from it. Bring cash plus Venmo and Zelle, carry a want list sorted by recipient as well as by player and TCG title, and pack sleeves, top loaders, and a hard slab case for anything you buy. Follow @suncitycardshow915 or call (915) 996-3018 for the vendor list and 2027 schedule announcements.