The Mimic Monthly – April 2025
Mimics Monthly April 2025 April showers usually bring May flowers, but this month also brings us a few new, exciting things at Mimics, including the first steps towards what will eventually be our new premiere TTRPG event! But first, let’s talk about what’s going on this month, what is out as of the release of this letter, and let’s be a bit honest about what might be happening in the Board Game end of things with the recent news about Tariffs. Dragonstorm and Casual CommanderThe first journey back to Tarkir in a good long while has landed at Mimics! While we sold through a lot of what we had on pre-release weekend, we are looking at a restock this week and will be drafting the bajeezes out of this set! Also new this month, we have a new alternative to Sunday commander League, with Casual Commander every Wednesday night at 6PM! Hosted by our community, this more beginner friendly MTG event is designed to be a place to unwind and play some friendly Commander on a weekday! Daggerheart and Mimics Presents!! Starting on Tuesday evenings, our very own Jae and Jay will be running a few tables of Daggerheart, the exciting new RPG from the folks at Darrington Press. This will be part of an ongoing effort for us all to lead more RPG events in store, and is the first step towards what we hope to be a “West Marches” style larger, interconnected RPG. We are all really excited by this idea, and we hope eventually we can take over an entire day with this huge storytelling adventure, and we can’t wait to share more about what we’re doing. We’ve got a little flyer with more info at Mimic’s! Let’s Talk About Tariffs Well, as you’ve probably seen, there are a ton of new, scary tariffs on a lot of countries. While there have been estimates at a couple of outlets, and from a couple of Board Game companies about what this all will mean, we just want to let you know that we all still don’t know for sure what to expect. We know prices will go up when we buy things, but exactly by how much, and on what, and when, that’s still unclear. From what we understand of manufacturing, board games may likely be the first hit by price increases, so it can’t hurt to get ahead on a game you’ve had your eye on. We will of course keep y’all updated, and we thank y’all for being so supportive of us as a small business in these times of weirdness. We’ll do our best to keep the costs of these products reasonable while maintaining our ability to keep the store open and functional. Notable Events this Month A Galaxy of Cards After the success of our store showdown, we are happy that we are going to be hosting Star Wars Unlimited twice this month on the 19th (Draft) and the 26th (Constructed), both at 6PM. We are so excited to be doing organized play from a galaxy far far away, and hope to grow the scene here at Mimics! We all made fun of Phantom Menace but man disputes on the taxation of Naboo’s trade routes is looking way different these days. Get Your Goggles On Digimon World Convergence is dropping on our Prerelease event April 11th! They’re really making lateral moves here with Appmon linking that will attach to the sides of your digimon cards for literally a new dimension of strategies. This is the first Digimon set where we at Mimic’s will have a whole bunch of booster boxes in stock, so we don’t have to be cagey about it anymore! Thanks, me-8-months-ago, for realizing just how great and active a Digimon community we had! For all other recurring events, here’s our flyer for the month! As always there’s more info and registrations at http://mimicsmarket.com/events. And with that, we’re staying the course. Thank you to everyone in our community, all our friends, everyone who’s been a part of Mimic’s Market this past two years! (Written by Jay & Jordan)
The Mimic Monthly – March 2025
Howdy y’all! Spring is beginning to be sprung this month, and we are so excited to welcome the warmer weather! We have another exciting month of events and new releases, so let’s just hop right in! As always, you can find more details and preregistration (when applicable) on our Events calendar page. Yugioh, but more official! We are very happy to announce that we are now an official Konami OTS store! This means that our YuGiOh local players will be able to play using their Konami IDs, and receive an OTS pack, featuring sought after reprints and ultimate rares with entry. Come visit us the 8th, and 22nd, and the 29th to play and get to know our little yugioh community! Pokemon Journey Together We are also happy to be hosting two more Pokemon events this month, all to celebrate the release of Journey Together, the newest Scarlet and Violet TCG set. We will be hosting a Ditto Draft on the 15th at 1PM and a sealed prerelease on the 18th at 6PM. We hope to see you all out! Flesh and Blood Skirmish! We have our Skirmish event for Season 11 on the 15th at 5PM! Space might be limited, so we highly recommend signing up ahead of time, at the link HERE Mini Painting Wednesdays! We also have a new ongoing event, graciously put on by a community member. Come learn how to paint minis, get your hands on some brushes and paint, and explore a new tactile hobby! Every Wednesday at 7PM! THIS MONTHS RPGS Our weekly RPGS Not much change to our ongoing RPG events this month, but we’re very happy to have some new one-shots! We have Pathfinder on Monday and Wednesday nights in the back room at 5PM. While a long running game, it is always open to new folks who are interested in joining and learning Pathfinder 2e We are also proud to continue hosting the playtest sessions for Outside Us Nothing, a new sci-fi RPG by Sable, one of our community members. Join the adventure on Tuesday evenings at 6PM and help shape a brand new RPG! Also continuing this month we have our recurring Saturday beginner D&D 5E game, which is happening every other Saturday this month! So join us the 8th and the 22nd at 1PM so you can get to know the world’s most popular Roleplaying game! ONE SHOTS! Unravel (Local Playtest) on the 7th at 6PM: 2-4 players are wanted to test Unravel, a new RPG set in 70s Britain where players are blackmailed into investigating the paranormal. This game is intended for a mature audience, and anyone interested can message hasfusel on our discord to learn more! Call of Cthulhu (21+) on the 8th and 15th and 29th at 6PM: We are hosting another Call Of Cthulhu one-shot Morsels game, which will cost $7 to join the day of, or $5 if you register on our website! Reach out to mustard_god on our discord for more info! Last Train to Breman on the 14th at 6PM: We are once again happy to host this one-shot game about deals with the devil, music, friendship, and poor decisions. This is also a morsels game, so message Andrew! On our Discord if you have any questions Decuma on the 29th at 2PM, run by our very own Jae! Join Jae while she takes you through a guided tour through Decuma, a world building game, designed to help you craft your own worlds to explore! New Products Jae and Jay have returned from the GAMA Expo trade show with a bunch of ideas a new games! Our first batch is the works of Mage Hand Press. Not only do their RPG supplements add tons of content to character building, monster design and more to 5th Edition, but their concepts are so rock solid we recommend them for any fantasy RPG. Their upcoming book (not released yet) is Book Of Extinction, a bestiary of creatures based off real-life extinct animals, with a focus on conservation of biodiversity in real life and fantasy worlds. Also, we’ve got their cake-tower-building competitive card game Witchy Cakes in our board games library! The future! April usually brings showers, and this year it’ll have one hell of a Dragonstorm to start it off, when Tarkir: Dragonstorm, the next MTG set drops! We will of course have several different prerelease slots to get in and get your hands on the Magic early. The week of May 20th, keep your eyes peeled for the release of Daggerheart, the new original roleplaying game from Critical Role’s publishing arm – Darrington Press. We’ll be planning a special release event for Daggerheart, and the J’s are cooking up big plans for RPGs later in the summer. And speaking of Summer RPG plans, let’s get hyped for Free RPG Day events on June 21st! Mark your calendar now so you don’t miss out on a day full of one-shots, demos, and free stuff! That’s all for this month’s Newsletter. Please let us know what stuff you’d like us to talk about in future posts and please share around the word (or link to these newsletters) so more folks can stay up to date on what’s happening at Mimic’s. Social media being how it is these days, we’re looking to reinforce our other communications channels. Peace! -The Mimic’s Team
The Mimic Monthly – February 2025
Hey folks! It’s been a lovely start to the year so far, and we want to thank y’all for a great 2024, our first full year! With everything going on right now, we know how important it is to have a place to get away, play a game, and just enjoy yourself. With that, we thought what better time to get back into the habit of publishing these little newsletters to keep everyone updated with what the month ahead looks like, and what’s new on our shelves! DRIFT INTO MAGIC! Magic the Gathering jumps from the past with Innistrad Remastered to our first brand new set of 2025, with the hotly anticipated Aetherdrift! As we race towards the full release on February 14th, you all get to jump the start with three different pre-release events, starting with our Friday Night Magic event on February 7th, with competitive prizing. For a more casual vibe we’ll have 2 more pre-release events the next day, at 12:30 PM and 5:30 PM with flat prizing. And as always, Pauper Monday, Draft Friday, and Commander league on Sundays all month! POKEMON LEAGUE CUP! Pokemon trainers! Join us on Saturday, February 15th for our most competitive pokemon event, the Bloomfield league cup! Starting at Noon sharp, we have capacity for 18 trainers to duke it out for bragging rights and prizing! Swiss Rounds, best of 1, and top cut plays out 70 minute best of 3 rounds! Win overall in the Master’s Division to get immortalized on our new plaque we have up near the front register! And as always, you can join for more causal Pokemon battling every Tuesday night at 6 PM! Never A Better Time to Join a Game! Whether you’re new to TTRPGs, looking to try a new board game you’ve heard so much about, or are just looking to get out and do something new, there’s never been a better time to come out to Mimics and play! Joining our long running Monday and Wednesday night Pathfinder games, we have a new beginner friendly D&D game open to all happening every other week on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Plus, as always, our board game library is open to all every thursday from 6 to close! And as always, our Morsels games are a perfect way to play a one-shot or other low commitment TTRPG! We have a full schedule of games this month with games being $7 ($5 if you register online!) and also have several free RPGS, including a recurring playtest of Outside Us Nothing, a new RPG. Morsels wise we have! On February 5th at 6 PM we have Slugblasters, a look back to a wacky alternate 2012 where you play as a group of teenagers exploring their own dimension, and trying to learn to kickflip! On February 11th and 25th we will be hosting XCrawl classic once again! The former date is a Free game and the latter a Morsels game. No RPG experience necessary, and open to all! Reach out to Comradecrab on our discord if you have any questions about what to expect in this Free RPG night! Starting on the 12th, we’ll be hosting weekly playtests for Outside Us Nothing, a still-in-testing rules-light dicepool RPG with an anarchist sci-fi twist! 18+, first come first served, or reserve a spot online On February 15th we have Last Train to Breman which is a storytelling game of doomed musicians and poor decisions! Game starts at 6 PM! Also on the 15th we have a D&D one-shot called Wild Sheep Chase, which is perfect to drop in with a pre-rolled character! Also starting at 6 PM! On the 18th, at 6 PM, we have Border Riding, a GM-less map drawing game, all about creating communities, figuring out what makes them unique, and dealing with the ideas of ‘community’ and ‘otherness’ On the 21st, at 6PM, we have Goblin errands, a game for 2-4 goblins, and one tall person, which is a No-Prep RPG where you struggle to do everyday tasks in a world made for those far taller, and smarter, than you. On the 22nd at 6 we have a Call of Cthulhu free game! Reach out to mustard_god on our discord for more information about this free session! NEW ARRIVALS! Have you checked out our new arrivals section at the front of the store lately? Whether it’s a brand new game, or just new to us, we’re highlighting the things we’re excited about right now in one handy little section! Highlights of the last few weeks include: Near and Far is the sequel to Above and Below, and is another game by Ryan Laukat where up to four players can explore many different maps in a search for the Last Ruin, recruiting adventurers, hunting for treasure, and competing to be the most storied traveler. Let’s Hit Each Other with Fake Swords a new game from the folks at Exploding Kittens, where players battle each other with Fake Swords to claim cards and work their way to victory! Arcs is the next exciting game from Leder Games, the folks behind Root. Arcs is a Sci-Fi space opera for 2-4 players set in a dark but silly universe. Like all other Leder games, Arcs is a beautiful game with wonderful art and great design elements. That’s all for this month! Please share our newsletter around and feel free to let us know what else we can do to improve it! Love, Jordan Pastor of Muppets
TTRPG Events Update for New Year 2025
Hello, RPG Community – As we approach the new year, we are thinking of how to reaffirm Mimic’s Market’s focus on tabletop roleplaying games and looking to the community for feedback on how we can better bring in activity for TTRPGs. 1.) First, we are seeking volunteers for recurring D&D games at the store: a weekly D&D ongoing campaign and/or a monthly or bi-monthly Beginner D&D game. The weekly D&D game might include the Adventurers League format, be a series of one-shots, or a West-Marches style campaign that moderately experienced 5E players would feel free to drop in and out of. This could be a weekday or on the weekend depending on when GMs are available. The monthly or bi-monthly Beginner D&D game would be geared towards new players with no direct experience of TTRPGs and take place on a weekend evening. If you are interested in conducting these sorts or games as a GM, please reach out to us! This could be a great opportunity for more experienced D&D players looking to expand into GM-ing. 2.) Next, these are our proposed changes to the Morsels program. Our first year experimenting with a prizing system for TTRPG games has been a great success. Even though there were some sparse patches and games that couldn’t fire, we have seen a consistent interest in this program from both players and GMs. The goal for Morsels has been to get more GMs running more different games and for players to try new types of TTRPGs, and that has absolutely come true. And still! There is room to improve and we want to tighten up our Morsels system even further to get more games firing. Through 2024, player tickets to Morsel Games had cost $10 online and $12 in person day-of. (The online discount encourages players to commit in advance to help prepare the GM with turnout information). Players received two morsels and a $3 dollar concession token. In 2025, we’re looking to cut the entry price of Morsels games to encourage more player turnout. To that end, we are omitting the concession token and giving players one Morsel at the end of the game. This will reduce player entry price to $5 Online and $7 in person. GMs will receive one Morsel by default and one additional Morsel for every player above 2 players. Now, players receive 1 morsel and a dated coupon that when redeemed within 1 week following the Morsels game, gives 5% off 1 RPG Book related to the game they played. IE if someone played in a Root TTRPG, the coupon would apply to any Powered By the Apocalypse Game. While this means that players will have to play more games to get more morsels, we believe the cheaper price will encourage more people to try out games they might otherwise be hesitant to, and the discount will encourage people to purchase books for the games that resonated with them. As always, the core goal of the Morsels program is to encourage more people to play games in the store and to try out all sorts of RPGS. Morsels Achievement Bingo will stay the course, with each 3-in-a-row awarding an additional Morsel. 3. We are also considering changing what form the Morsels themselves take – Currently, they are cut acrylic. Because of the time and energy that it takes to get them cut out, they have a fairly static design. While we love the way they look, another idea is that Morsels will be miniature magnets. Those that attended our first Ghouls Night in 2023, might recognize this design. If we swapped to this design, it would be easy for Jay to design new versions for special events and such. And while these magnets are black and white, the morsels version would most likely be in color. This is definitely less of a solid idea though, and we want to see what the community thinks. In our discord server, under the TTRPG Forum section, we’ll have an ongoing forum soliciting feedback from our community to continue adjusting and updating the Morsels system and overall how Mimic’s can focus on and serve the TTRPG community!
The Mimic Monthly – April 2024
Hey Folks! Here’s a brief summary of this month’s Mimic Monthly: Morsel Games are starting up big and we need players! Creative workshops are also starting up at the store. A selection of new games we’re excited for from some friends we made at the convention last month. Some card game schedule updates at the bottom! Okay let’s go now: Morsels are kicking off! We’re hyped to start the Morsels exchange this month! If you haven’t heard, it’s a way to earn prizes by running and playing in Roleplaying Games at Mimic’s! Full details here. Please register in advance for these on our Events calendar. We need players to populate these games! We’ve already got a bunch of local GMs already on the schedule for a variety of RPG games throughout April! April 5th 6pm Monster of the Week 6th 1pm Beginner Dungeons & Dragons 6th 6pm Delta Green 6th 6pm Dread RPG 12th 6pm Mothership 13th 6pm FIST 13th 6pm Alien RPG 19th 6pm Wildsea 20th 2pm Old School Essentials 20th 6pm Girl by Moonlight 20th 6pm Alien RPG 26th 6pm Call of Cthulhu 26th 6pm Thirsty Sword Lesbians 27th 6pm Star Wars: Force & Destiny May 27th 6pm Star Wars: Force & Destiny For more information and to Register in advance (we highly recommend this) go to our Events Calendar and search “Morsels” Creative Workshops! Alongside the Morsels games, we’re going to start having some Tuesday workshops related to Roleplaying Games but also a great arts & crafts time for all ages. April 2nd 6pm – Miniature Painting WorkshopApril 9th 6pm- Character Creation Basics (Dungeons & Dragons)April 16th 6pm – Miniature Painting (Again)April 23rd 6pm – Terrain making We’ll be looking to add more workshops on more days such as RPG map drawing made easy, world-building and more!For more inforamtion, head over to our Events Calendar and search “workshop” for more information or to register in advance. Some new games we’re excited for! Toasty Toasts is a lightweight and quick competitive card game about building toast sandwiches and screwing up your opponents’ sandwiches. We met the creator at the GAMA Expo and loved it! A slam dunk of a board game if there ever was one. Wyrmspan builds on the beloved gameplay of Wingspan with oh yes a huge stable of fascinating species of dragons! Another card game we saw at GAMA, Worldbreakers is a really versatile living card game set in 13th Century Asia. Compete to build a powerful Khanate or play the solo campaign against the invading forces of Marco Polo. There are a variety of ways to play, including a draft format! Finally, Mausritter is a new Roleplaying Game of mice and magic! Rules-light, fast and accessible for all ages, the Mausritter core box has all the components to jump into the game straight away! Commander players are all FOOLS For our hit Magic: The Gathering Commander League, April is April Fools All Month! Not only are Unfinity cards legal for this monthly season, but newly certified Junior Game Commissioner and known neighborhood card jock Leo is cooking up some wacky new achievements guaranteed to knock your inner sleeves right off! Update Leo insists I also mention that all “Un” sets are also available such as unlimited unbelievable unsubmersible uncomparable unicorn undefeatable uncontainable unconscionable unpreventable and undertale. And also a bunch of other things he listed off too fast so message him on discord @lilviathan to ask him all about it. Other Card Game News! Our Flesh and Blood rotation is changing. The new rotation is First Thursday (4/4) – BlitzSecond Thursday (4/11) – DraftThird Thursday (4/18) – Precon BlitzFourth Thursday (4/25) – Classic Constructed Also, our Digimon Locals will on the first and third Wednesday at 6pm. The other wednesdays we’ll treat as an Open House! Yu-Gi-Oh will have an open house the second Wednesday and a Local the fourth Wednesday. Lorcana open house second Thursday and Local fourth Thursday. That’s all for this newsletter! I am currently writing this instead of going to Jae’s family’s place for leftover Easter ham and she’s getting mad at me lol. Peace, and hit us up with any questions at contact@mimicsmarket.com -Jay
Mimic’s Morsels – Token Exchange for RPG Events
GM Scheduling Form Players’ Interest Form The Basics Introducing! The Mimic’s Morsels exchange. This is an ever-evolving prizing structure for in-store Role-Playing Games intended–like an engine–to drive activity in the local roleplaying community for new and experienced players alike. Here is the short of it: when you play in, or “GM” (to lead the game as Game Master) an in-store roleplaying game, you collect Morsel tokens (pictured right, not final), and exchange them for prizes and other perks. The tokens are designed with a hole to be kept on a string, and we’ll have alternate color/material variants to represent 5 tokens and 10 tokens like different colored Rupees in Zelda!) We’re testing designs with wood but are also considering different colored acrylics. Along the way, players can chase some meta-game achievements on a sort of “bingo card” that on completion enters them into a raffle for a more valuable prize. The Details Now, for more details – Players pay $10 to attend. Reservation for seats will be available for purchase in advance on our website. We expect games to be at least two hours and accessible to players of all experience levels, with pre-made characters available. Players will be capped at 6 per game so it can fit on one of our long tables. Players will receive a concessions voucher for $3 for drinks and/or snacks from the store (during the game or anytime). At the end of the session, players receive 2 Morsel tokens for playing. From the Game Masters’ perspective: GMs do not pay to attend, and are rewarded with two Morsels plus one for every attending player over 3 players – up to 5 tokens for a 6-player game. As for the raffle, GMs are automatically entered after GM-ing two games. We will have a community schedule for GMs to arrange their games and a form for players to submit games they are interested. That way we can help GMs run games that players will attend. See the links to the right. GM Scheduling Form Players’ Interest Form The Goodies Now the fun stuff – Please see the list of prizes below. We will be adding and changing the prize pool continuously so please tell us what you’d like to see here! 1 Morsel – Any Single Die 5 Morsels – Free Game (does not give concessions voucher or Morsels) 8 Morsels – Any RPG Mini under $10 10 Morsels – GameMasters Guild Acrylic dice set 10 Morsels – $5 store credit 10 Morsels – $15 off any RPG book(s) 12 Morsels – Any Phunny-brand plush of RPG creatures & monsters! 16 Morsels – $25 off any Dirt Cheap Dungeon terrain kit This is a fine place to start with some good stuff to chase, but what else could we have? What’s like…a BIG TICKET item for a really serious GM to grind for? Achievements Bingo for entry into a Raffle And here is our first set of achievements for the first raffle cycle! We plan on cycling in and out new achievements over time. Please offer up some ideas! They should be decently challenging and encourage interesting role-playing experiences. They’ll be arranged in a 3×3 grid for bingo-style stamping by staff. Ideally it should take players at least two games to complete a line. Thanks for Playing! – Redeem more than 1 Morsel (center square) Planeskipper – Play the same character in two different worlds I’ll do it Myself – GM a game Potlucky – Bring snacks for the game. GM’s Choice – GM suggests a challenge based on the game system you’re playing Indie Revolution – Play a game with a zine involved! Tools of the Trade – Participate in a creative workshop at Mimic’s Expand your Horizons – Play any game that isn’t Dungeons & Dragons or in the 5e system Custom Creature Culture – Play with a mini you have painted yourself. The first raffle prize will be a set of Bump-Metal dice from Gamemasters Guild! The first cycle of this bingo system will end once we have ~6-10 completed bingo cards (this will help us gauge if the raffle should happen about monthly, quarterly, etc) and the more activity we get with the Morsels system, the bigger and bigger raffle prizes we can plan in the future. Pre-empting some Questions If you’re still reading this far, you are probably interested in the nitty-gritty of this or have a question hopefully we can answer. I can’t call it a FAQ because nobody has asked questions about this yet. If you have more questions, want to get involved or any other reason to talk to us, send an email to contact@mimicsmarket.com! Why charge $10? We have been focused on free-play games in the store, which has had some problems with player commitment to attendance. We want these games to be taken seriously as a form of community entertainment experiences. The fees compensate GMs for their service with an accelerated rate of tokens. That way, we get more GMs, we get more games, we all play more RPGs together! The store does make a percentage of revenue to pay the rent that is a requisite to offer the space to play these games. We had a whole big spreadsheet calculating how many tokens to give out for how many games, towards how many prizes with what value, and does this totally hemorrhage money from the store?? And it appears to be financially stable! How can I farm more tokens? We know our community is gamers and that gamers figure out how to game out any system for maximum efficiency. So there’s only three ways to get tokens. Playing in games gets tokens, GM-ing games gets tokens faster. The third way, the only way to get extra tokens is to create a good community here. Staff will have a set budget (per raffle cycle) to give single tokens at their discretion to players and GMs that are excelling as members of the
The Mimic Monthly – March 2024
I haven’t forgotten about this! In the first week of March, Jae & Jay are attending the industry conference GAMA Expo for a bunch of seminars, networking and to demo and see presentations on up-and-coming games. Watch our Instagram and Facebook for updates and pictures. Thank you to Famine and Jaq for stepping up to hold the fort while we’re gone. The store is open and events are on as usual! Open Roleplaying Games this Month This month there’s a bunch of opportunities for folks to come in and join a roleplaying game. They’re all great opportunities for people new to this type of game, with pre-made characters to play and GMs happy to teach. There’s also a variety of different games for experienced role-players to find something new! Ongoing Games Every Tuesday 5-9pm local Game Master Dan has an ongoing large-group Dungeons & Dragons game. Starting March 2nd and every other Saturday there will be a public game of Dungeons & Dragons Adventurers League from 2-6pm in the store, ran by Julien. Great for drop-in-drop-out players. Starting March 14th, Sir Maynard will start an ongoing campaign every Thursday at 6pm — the Longfelt Explorer’s Society. One-shot Games Drop in March 6th for a home-brewed game of Root RPG styled by Gamemaster Nick into Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. For an absolute ground-floor beginner RPG game, Jay is running a game of Mazes, an RPG with zero math. Testing new Card Game Locals Alongside our usual Pokemon (every Tuesday) and Magic (every Saturday), we’re expanding our Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Lorcana open-house evenings to host some locals in the latter half of the month. Digimon — March 20th, 6pm Lorcana — March 21st, 6pm Yu-Gi-Oh! — March 27th, 6pm These will be conducted by Jay who is learning bracket construction and is not a certified judge in any of these games, so we’ll rely on the knowledge and experience of our communities for assistance. ALSO Flesh and Blood event rotations continue every Thursday at 6pm March 7th – Draft March 14th – Precon Blitz March 21st – Classic Constructed March 28th – Blitz Late Patty’s Day 21+BYOB Saturday March 23rd, starting at 5pm, Mimic’s is becoming a 21+ only space for a BYOB game night. As in the past, we expect our community to be well conducted so we can stay good neighbors in Bloomfield. All of our game library will be free to play, we encourage folks to consider RPG one-shot games to run with drinks, and we’ll all have a great time! There will be a $10 corking fee. More stuff on the Calendar! For more details and most importantly Free Registration in advance, please see our calendar page for all events! And check it regularly! We’re always adding new events that might not have gone in the newsletter, and we have weekly Board Game Nights, Friday Night Magic drafts, Warhammer demos, maybe even some arts and crafts workshops once we get back from the convention! Calendar Cool, it’s time for me to go finish packing for the Expo. Thank you for reading, be good to each other and especially yourself. Hopefully I didn’t forget anything, or that when I eventually realize I did, it’s negligible or correctable. That’s all you can ask for you know? Peace! -Jay
The Mimic Monthly – January 2024
New Year, New Mimic’s, but it’s the same Mimic’s so don’t worry Do people still wear glasses with the year number on them? What would that be like for this year? Is the zero one round lens but the 4 is like a triangular lens? It’s just not reasonable. We’ve only been open 4.5 months but boy howdy it’s felt like a full year getting Mimic’s up and running, so I’m counting this as our first year roundup. We’ve already grown so much. Our stock of products is denser and more varied and it’s become a nightmare to organize. Our events started with one shaky, confused Netrunner tournament and now we’re having tons of open RPG games, weekly magic drafts and format tournaments, a Pokemon League. We’re starting to really ramp into Warhammer events. What else? We finally got Lorcana cards! We put in shelves and tables and a neon sign and ramp, and we’re looking forward to a big lighting installation in the next week! We’ve made so many friends and had wacky times and learned valuable lessons about–I don’t know–being honest with our feelings? I’m just so grateful we were fortunate enough to bring together people and have the opportunity to accumulate this community around the store as a vague centerpoint. It’s the people that come and play the games and care intensely about the games, they are what has made this come together at all. Bloomfield has been the perfect area to settle in and grow the tabletop gaming scene. There’s tons of enthusiastic, warm and friendly people here and every day more folks are finding out about us. Word is still spreading and the tabletop scene is still growing! I could gush for another couple paragraphs about everyone we’ve met and the comunity we’ve formed. Thank you everyone, for everything. January Events! I don’t have much else to say for this newsletter. I’m sure once it warms up and we get growing we’ll be very hyped to write here about tables we’re going to have at big events and festivals or cons. Something like that But for now, it’s another round of events! Changes this month Magic format-rotating tournaments moved to Saturday evenings, FNM is still draft-focused Commander League is back! Starting on the 7th, every Sunday Now that we’ve got Lorcana, we’ll have some Open Play nights every other wednesday just to start building steam. Warhammer on mondays, we’ll alternate Mini Painting meetups and Kill Team Demos weekly. Plus on the 20th we’ll be pushing the tables together to get some full-size maps! So see if you can prep a 2000-point army for that! Not much else to say this time. I think we’re all pretty worn out by the Holiday Season busy-ness. Shouts out to Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse entering the public domain. It’s an election year, that’s gonna be something. Let’s all have a nice rest for a while. Stay warm, folks! -Jay Mimic’s Market4707 Liberty AvePittsburgh, PA 15224
The Mimic Monthly – December 2023
Hey Folks! Is there a cool name we could make up for followers of Mimic’s? Let’s brainstorm it for the new year. Things have been going well with us since the last newsletter, our hires have been excellent, we’ve geared up for the Holiday season with sales and specials and hopefully some fun events that will bring us together as a community all schmultzy and holidays-like. So let’s unwrap some newsletterrrruggh. December Events! Friday Night Magic is rotating, Pokemon League is taking off. Monday is shaping up as our mini painting and wargames night. Saturday TTRPG Socials will be buttressed by Jay running RPG demos in the evenings. More and more of our community members are stepping up to generously run public games all month! It’s a great time to take a shot at any games you’ve been curious about. But the main event we want to highlight for December is our Longest Night celebration. Based on the holiday from Night in the Woods, it’ll be a community potluck party and food drive where we’ll also be playing some kind of story-telling game centered around drawing your own constellations and creating mythos around them. Please consider attending and contributing! Other than that, the events flier is below, and more events and details are on our website! Events Calendar Holiday Sales and Bundles and such! We’ve got a bunch of extras and freebees for the holiday season! Games make great gifts and are literally one of those things that brings people together to have fun. We can’t list all the things here in the newsletter, but what’s great is I made a little graphic for it! Also, we’ve made a little 2023 Gift Guide doc to give some recommendations and ideas for gifts (and a lot aren’t even games but other gifts!). Remember the Sears Wishbook? Circling everything? It’s like that. Gift Guide 2023 Also also, in the store we have Wishlist sheets! If you really have no idea what gift to get someone, just have them run around the store taking note of everything they like! Piece of cake. Also also also, we still have Advent Calendars for Pokemon TCG and Foam Brain Dice. Don’t think just because the first is over you can’t follow the Advent Calendars. Even if a week has passed already, that’s just one big jackpot of stuff to catch up to the date! Or in January, like the cards and dice don’t spoil after December lol they’re still good. Lighting Strikes! Is this a news item? We just got some track lighting and will hopefully have it installed before the holidays just tank every appointment and schedule lol. Get ready for extreme visibility on all our books and such! That’s it for news. I could like, talk about all the new products we get in for the newsletter but there’s so many of those and I think it’s kinda crass. We’re finally getting some Digimon and soon One Piece cards in. We should be locked in for the 3rd wave of printing for Disney Lorcana so that’s finally happening! Got some better paint supplies like wet palettes, speedpaints, stuff like that. Everything’s always changing and improving. We learned a lot over the last few months and a bunch of stuff is falling into place. OH SHIRTS and TOTE bags are being printed! Simple MM logo and all but you can rep us out in the world. Thank you everybody for the support! Looking forward to 2024 and hopefully the rest of my life full of building out the community here at Mimic’s Market! -Jay