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Review of Atomic Empire

Atomic Empire offers a wide selection of comics an...

Atomic Empire offers a wide selection of comics and trades, as well as TCG's and events. I particularly like the "refreshments bar" in the back of the store for long MTG events that offers some alcoholic drinks and some regular juices/water. The comics section . needs to be better organized, but otherwise seems to be kept up to date and fully stocked. The people who work here a mixed bunch. Some are very friendly and helpful, while some just ignore you and avoid speaking to customers.

I preordered an item online and they had it ready for me within a few hours. Great service in that regard.

Updated 6/10/2019 -

I attended a MTG Modern Horizons Prerelease draft over the past weekend and had quite a bad experience that I must comment on. The draft was advertised to start at 4 PM. I only found out that they had delayed the draft to 5 PM after going up to a judge and asking why the draft had not started yet (at about 4:25). I understand that the store wants people from the preceding sealed event to finish up and be able to join the draft, but they should really either allocate more time for the earlier event or notify their players of any updates to timing.

The other annoyance of the afternoon was that the judge informed us, after starting the draft, that they would not be handing out the prerelease promo card. He added that they would randomly pick players at the end of the draft to be given the promos later. Wizards of the Coast notes on it's store event page that the promos are to be given out to EACH player attending the event and that the prerelease kits, containing the boosters for the event, would come with the promos. While the promo card is not currently worth more than a dollar and I don't believe this was done maliciously, I am very disappointed as the promo is a big part of the excitement of prerelease and as per WOTC policy, should be given out to all players.