SteelFox Games

Deep singles binders and a play floor that runs to 2AM on weekends make SteelFox the Bossier City stop for Magic, Lorcana, One Piece and Digimon.

Barksdale Boulevard is not where most people expect to find a serious singles inventory, but SteelFox Games has spent the last several years proving otherwise from Suite 109 at 4100 Barksdale. The floor plan is practical rather than precious: retail and glass cases up front, folding tables and chairs filling the back for whatever game has the room that night. It is the kind of Bossier City card shop where the counter staff will pull a binder down and walk you through why a card is priced the way it is.

Breadth is the differentiator here. Plenty of shops in the Shreveport-Bossier area stop at Magic, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh; SteelFox also stocks and supports Digimon, Disney Lorcana and One Piece, which means the smaller player bases in this market actually have somewhere to buy sleeves and find an opponent. Magic singles are the backbone of the case inventory, and reviewers consistently single out the depth of the selection over the size of the store.

The hours are worth planning around, because they are unusual. Friday and Saturday the doors stay open until 2AM — the latest close of any card shop in the parish — which makes SteelFox the default landing spot for anyone who wants to keep a Commander pod going past midnight. Tuesday is the short day, closing at 8PM, and Sunday wraps up at 7PM. Weekday afternoons from 1PM or 2PM onward are the quiet window if you would rather browse than play.

Trading cards in Bossier City tend to move through a small, tight community, and SteelFox functions as one of its buy-and-sell hubs. Staff handle buying, trading and online orders, and reviewers who arrived knowing nothing about the modern hobby describe being walked through it without a hard sell. There is free parking in the lot out front, the shop is a short drive from Barksdale Air Force Base, and the Facebook page at facebook.com/steelfoxgames is where event announcements land first. Call 318-584-6219 before a late-night trip if you want to confirm what is running that evening.