Wax and Draft — Sports, TCG & More rings out 2026 at Infusion Brewing Company on Sunday, December 27, and the year's final edition might be the savviest date on the whole series calendar. The week between Christmas and New Year's is the hobby's great reshuffling: collectors have gift money to spend, kids have new binders to fill, sellers are clearing space, and dealers are pricing to close the year clean. All of that converges on one free-entry brewery show in Omaha.
The format is the one local collectors know well by now — card dealers set up throughout one of the city's favorite craft breweries, with the taproom pouring alongside. Sports tables carry MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL singles with football inventory peaking as the playoff field locks in, plus graded slabs, autographs, parallels, and wax. TCG dealers bring Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, and Lorcana, and the post-Christmas date makes this the best show of the year for kids to spend holiday cash on singles for whatever game Santa started them on. Expect end-of-year deals on sealed product too, as dealers move remaining holiday stock rather than store it.
Hours are 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, entry is free, and the venue does the rest: house-brewed beers, non-alcoholic drinks, food, abundant seating, and free parking close by. Holiday-week crowds skew family-heavy, with plenty of new collectors attending their first-ever show clutching Christmas gift cards and fresh product — which gives the December edition the most welcoming energy of the series.
Who should come? Everyone with holiday money and a want list, for a start. New collectors will find dealers patient and the brewery setting pressure-free. Parents whose kids just discovered Pokemon or football cards can get honest guidance on what to buy next. Set builders can close out 2026 want lists, investors can hunt year-end pricing on graded inventory, and anyone with duplicate gifts or an overgrown collection can shop it around a room full of buyers before the calendar turns.
A few closing-week tips: arrive at open if you are after anything specific, since holiday-week shows draw the biggest casual crowds of the year and fresh inventory scatters fast. Bring cash — after-Christmas deals get noticeably better when bills hit the table. Have the kids bring their trade binders; holiday-week rooms are full of other kids with brand-new cards and maximum enthusiasm, and some of the best trades of the year happen at this show. And take a minute to talk schedule with the dealers, because January's show calendar and the series' 2027 dates get set in these conversations. Confirm final details on the cardshows.io listing before heading out, and close your collecting year the way it should be closed: with a draft in one hand and a fresh pickup in the other.
