2025 Painting Competition - The Results

Our 2025 painting competition has finished and the votes have been counted. A massive thank you to everyone that entered this year and to everyone that took the time to come in and vote.

The standard was outstanding and the imagination for some of the conversions showed just how much time and thought had gone into the entry.

For some it was one of the very first pieces that they had painted and there was a great mix of younger entries and more experienced painters.

Every single entry got a decent number of votes which is so great to see, the people that voted loved the variety and spent time looking at all of the entries.

All of the models are still on display in the shop, if you want to come in and see them and they will be available for the owners to pick up in the new year.

After all the votes had been counted, the top four were as follows...

In fourth place and highest placed under 16 was Andrea. Several people commented on his model and many thought it was painted by an adult. He has in fact been painting for just 4 months and spent several days on his entry. I can't wait to see what he does next year. He will receive a £5 voucher.

In third place was Arek, His model featured flames and the impressive glow of the reflection on the armour. He will receive a £5 voucher

In second place was George with this stunning entry featuring three Imperial Fist Infernus Marines. Yellow is a difficult colour to do and these look incredible. He will receive a £10 voucher.

Finally, the winner. Another orky conversion by Leo. This model does indeed feature all the pieces from the original model (including some of the sprue) and people loved the idea. Congratulations on a truely creative and well painted entry. He will receive a £15 voucher.

What Is Magic Presents: Player Appreciation - Turbo Tower?

Magic Presents: Player Appreciation - Turbo Tower is a special Commander celebration event taking place December 12–18 at WPN stores worldwide. Players are invited to enjoy the most popular Magic format and take home the promo card while supplies last.

Each player begins the game with a Command Tower promo card on the battlefield. This promo card isn't counted as part of their deck; their deck still needs to include 100 cards, and it can include another copy of the Command Tower card if they wish.

At the end of the event, participants keep their Command Tower promo card as a thank-you for being part of the community.

MTG - Master the four elements

Starting Saturday 13th December we will be running the "Magic the Gathering presents Master the Four Elements" league.

This will be a sealed event starting with 3 boosters and adding a pack each week. Decks are built from the card pool from the packs opened and start at deck size of 30 cards, each week the deck size will go up by 5 cards.

At the beginning of the league everyone will get 4 element cards. As you play other players you can pick one of your element cards and you will get the benefit that the element offers for that match. You can use each element card three times and when you master all of the elements you will receive a MTG Avatar the Last Airbender print and a promo card.

Each event will be at 2pm on Saturday and will last for as many weeks as needed for players to master the elements (up to a maximum of 4 weeks). The element cards are ...

Avatar the Last Airbender Commander Party

The Magic: The Gathering Avatar: The Last Airbender Commander Party is a special, story-driven event with unique mechanics where players train to master all four elements (Earth, Fire, Water, Air) using special play aids and "bending" cards to unlock the powerful Avatar State for big game-changing effects, creating a fun, immersive experience for both new and seasoned players.

How it WorksPods:

• Players form pods of three to four.
• Play Aids: Each pod gets a special play aid to track elements and rules.
• Bending Training: Starting on turn three, players interact with their play aid to "train" in elements.
• Mastering Elements: Learn Water, Earth, Fire, and Air bending.
• The Avatar State: Master all four elements to unlock this powerful state, boosting your game.
• Flavorful Mechanics: The bending abilities are tied to the element's color (Blue for Water, Green for Earth, Red for Fire, White for Air) and feel like actions from the show.
• Promos: Event participants receive promotional cards, like the Gran-Gran promo.

KD GAMES - CHRISTMAS ADVENT COUNTDOWN

This year as we have in previous years we will be marking the Christmas period with a special Advent Sale. Starting on December 1st we will be adding a new offer each day right through to Christmas Eve.

This means that there will be a total of 24 different offers. These will start on the day they are announced and last all the way through to New Years Eve (unless we sell out of course)

So far offers for Day 1 and 2 have been added and these are now marked on our advent calendar. Spiderman boosters are now just £5 each which is a saving of £1.50 a pack and puts them on the same price as unlicensed boosters. For Star Wars Unlimited we have reduced the prerelease boxes from £30 to just £20 which effectively means 6 boosters for the price of 5. 

In addition this year we will also opening our TCG Charity Advent Calendar each day. For this we will be opening a booster of a TCG each day (which will be recorded) and adding these cards to the prize pool. We will try and open as many different TCG's as possible and some of the more popular games will have a couple of packs. We will be displaying the rare card from each booster on our calendar and you will be able to buy raffle tickets for just £1 each which will get one lucky person all of the contents of all of the boosters which will be announced on Christmas Eve. All proceeds from the event will go to Prostate Cancer which is a charity that we have supported for a while and is very close to our hearts.

One Monday we opened a MTG Spiderman pack and today we opened Star Wars Unlimited. The video's for these can be seen on our Tik Tok and Youtube Accounts. Here is the video of the reveal of today's rare card...