Round Table Games

Friday drafts, free Saturday Commander and a 4.9-star owner on South Holmes — the small Idaho Falls shop built entirely around Magic play.

Round Table Games is the smallest card shop on this list for Idaho Falls and the one with the highest rating, which is not a coincidence. The South Holmes Avenue shop is organized around a single premise: give Magic: The Gathering players somewhere reliable to sit down every week. Friday nights are draft night, posted in advance on the store's Facebook page, and Saturdays run free-play Commander with no entry fee and no expectation that you buy anything to take a seat.

Inventory reflects that focus. Magic singles and sealed lead, Flesh and Blood is supported, and the rest of the shelf space goes to board games, dice and the sleeves and deck boxes players burn through. This is not the store to visit if you want a wall of sports slabs or a Warhammer army — it is the store to visit if you want a game tonight and a card you have been chasing.

The shop has changed hands and the current ownership has kept the community-first posture that earned the original reviews, several of which name the owner directly and describe wanting to buy more simply because of how they were treated. That kind of comment shows up in small-shop reviews far more often than in chain ones, and it is the practical reason a 28-review store outranks neighbors with hundreds.

Hours are the thing to plan around, because they are short and uneven: closed Monday and Sunday, noon to 5PM Tuesday and Wednesday, noon to 6PM Thursday through Saturday. Friday and Saturday are the obvious visits — the Friday draft and the Saturday Commander tables are when the room is full. South Holmes has easy street parking, and the shop sits close enough to the Sunnyside corridor to combine with other errands. For anyone comparing Idaho Falls card shop options, this is the specialist: narrow on purpose, and very good at the narrow thing.