Trading Card Con San Diego 2026

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Trading Card Con San Diego 2026

Name: Trading Card Con San Diego 2026
Start: 2026-10-02T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-10-04T17:00:00-07:00
Location: San Diego, CA (venue TBA — check tradingcardcon.com)

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Fri, Oct 2 – Sun, Oct 4, 2026

Fri 10:00 AM PDT – Sun 5:00 PM PDT

San Diego, CA (venue TBA — check tradingcardcon.com)

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“The people who care about this hobby more than seems…”

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About

Somewhere between the person who has every card graded and sleeved, and the one who pulls out a binder at dinner to show what they found, is the person Trading Card Con was designed for.

Trading Card Con San Diego runs October 2-4, 2026 -- three days of buying, selling, trading, and being around people who take the hobby as seriously as you do. Badge tiers range from $25 day passes to $200 weekend League Badges, which says something about who shows up: this is not a flea market with trading cards at one table. It is a dedicated collector event built around the TCG community.

The experience covers Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, sports cards, and the full range of collectibles that orbit the hobby. Tournament play, vendor halls, and the kind of floor conversations that happen when you put serious collectors in the same room. San Diego's collector community is active and established -- the same scene that fills Front Row Card Show in September and Card Party earlier in the year.

If you have been waiting for an October event that treats the hobby as the point, not the backdrop, this is the one. Three days. Full collector floor. San Diego.

Weekend Badge: $40 in advance. Day Badge: $25. Gym Badge ($100) and League Badge ($200) for full experience tiers. Tickets at tradingcardcon.com.

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