The Legendary Lotus

Awesome place to chill and play with friends. Owner is reasonable in prices of cards and is very helpful. Best place to play commander.

Great selection and free EDH tournaments 3 days a week.
Most of the players are very helpful if you are new to the game.
The owner, Johnny, is very knowledgeable about the cards and the rules.
Also has a rewards program that lets you accumulate points to get free stuff.
If you are looking for a local place to play… highly recommend

Johnny and crew are great at what they do and have on multiple occasions gave my buddies and I great service… He’s even sat down and played with us when it wasn’t too busy… Also great selection of cards almost always has the cards I’m looking for and at better prices than other shops I have been to… Lots of cool card accessories as well from sleeves to playing mats he has it all…

Service: 4.5÷5
Prices: ⁵⁄₅
Atmosphere: ⁴⁄₅
The service here is always wonderful. The only time it’s not is when it gets super busy because there is generally only one person, and sometimes people bring in loads of cards to buy, or they have a massive list that the owner must price.
Prices is always fair, and I’ve never had an issue with it. They will tell you when they have multiple copies of the same card and how played they are. I recommend bringing cash if you can instead of using card though, as there is a 10 $ minimum for card.
The atmosphere here is pretty good, everybody here is friendly and there are generally no problems outside of rulings. Sometimes it gets a little loud because of the music, but it’s usually not a problem.
I have been here many times, and this is usually my go to place. I would highly recommend it to everybody.

Confession #1: I have no idea how to play Magic: The Gathering
Confession #2: I’ve NEVER played it before either.
So why did I come? LOL. I came to see a friend and didn’t know this place was a card store. I was pretty impressed by the vast array of cards it held and the amount of other card related things they also sold. They have card sleeves, binders, mats, dices, etc. You name it, they seem to have it. They also have tournaments and pre-​release events it seems and looks like a great place for people that likes/​plays/​collects Magic cards!

Lotus has been my favorite place to play magic since I started. The shop has a great selection of cards neatly laid out in display cases that makes them easy to see. The prices here are lower than other shops i have been to and the selection is great whether you are looking for cards for standard, modern, or legacy. The tables are organized and the shop provides counters, paper and pens for tournaments or casual play. This shop is the best environment to play Magic in.

Horrible service. It shouldn’t take 2 hours to find a card. This man needs to learn about the value of efficiency and time management.

Gosh do I love this card shop. The prices are great! I love the atmosphere of the place. The owner is really chill and nice to his customers. **EXTREMELY ORGANIZED** He has almost every card you could ever need or want. It’s well worth the drive from Huntington Beach. It’s about a 15 — 20 min drive, but totally worth it. Check it out guys!

I come here to purchase singles. And no one in town beats the prices. the atmosphere is great. store credit is awesome. I recommend this spot to any magic player

Best place in So Cal for preorders and dragon shield sleeves. Can’t beat those prices.

This is my all time favorite shop. The prices are amazing. The customers and employees are so nice and welcoming to new players. I highly recommend this shop to everyone. They have events for modern standard and edh :-)

Visiting this place being out of town; Legendary Lotus seemed like a great place for magic the gathering enthusiast. Haven’t played in over a year and was greeted with friendly people who kept me up to date on what was going on with the new set. Owner actually waited for me 10 mins since I was out of town heading to play a last minute draft.

Love this place.
Recently moved down from San Jose and needed to find a LGS. Hung out at Brookhurst hobby for a couple weeks, but they aren’t very friendly. They seem to value their regulars (of course) and ignore others.
Found this shop with great reviews and so decided to give it a try. First visit, I just wanted a couple card boxes and sleeves. Ended up buying a 2014 booster box since they give a massive discount for pre-​order.
Second visit, I asked for a couple singles, and the owner asked me about my deck. After about an hour, he built a kikass green-​white deck for about $ 40. This included two planeswalkers, a couple mythics, a dozen rares, 20 or so uncommons, and sleeves and two boxes. Great prices.
I love how the owner took the time to give me tips about my novice deck. The advice he gave really beefed up my deck. I have since built a green-​mono deck for about $ 20…
The patrons are very friendly. On the young side. but very mature in terms of their appreciation for the game and towards each other. Really appreciate that the owner is so helpful and also really do keep a clean house… both physically and figuratively.
He is also immensely knowledgeable. For the most part, i would give him a short description of a card and he knew exactly what it was… some cards going back to 2010… impressive.
there has been many visits since. and many more to come.

Great shop for events, with fair prices and good service.
Johnny does a great job of running a professional business. Don’t confuse his store with the the other two in the chain, which closed down due to poor management.
The friendly players at the events are competitive without begin condescending. The store has nice stock, the card prices are equal or better than what’s available online, and Johnny carries a wide variety of supplies (like Dragon Shield sleeves and pretty dice).
I definitely intend to return soon for the next released event, and the next time I need to place an order for Legacy cards for my casual games.

If you’re a hardcore magic fan or just a casual nerd whose never played, this is a pretty good shop to go to.
I got into magic recently, and this store has been incredibly helpful with getting me into it. Actually, I should be mad at the disposable income I no longer have that they take from me. Johnny is knowledgeable and helpful, and can talk magic with the most basic beginner (e.g. Me).
Their prices are good too. The prices here have at worst been close to online, and usually matches or beats the online prices. If you like their Facebook page you can see new product announcements and prices they are offering. The store has a wide selection of supplies, card packs, singles, etc so you can probably find what you’re looking for.
Speaking of their page, you can also see their calendar, they have events it seems everyday. So you can always go in and play an event if you want to.
The only thing I don’t like about this shop is I don’t live closer to it.
One note: It literally is only a Magic The Gathering shop. Don’t go here thinking it’s your general hobby, comic, etc shop.

This store is amazing. Ive been going to this store for the past 3 years and the store owner Johnny has the fairest prices for Magic the Gathering products around. He has a lot of sealed products and hosts great events for prerelease and FNM. It is a very friendly environment to hang out.

Good singles prices, good buy back rate, great box prices. Johnny and his new female employees don’t exactly walk up to you to ask if you need anything, you go to him/​them. As long as you understand that from the get go, they are friendly as long as you initiate the contact. That might put off some people, but I’m perfectly fine with not being asked if I need anything, I’d prefer not to be bugged while browsing.
They only tax singles /​boxes if you pay with card.
Good stop to find singles for standard, edh and modern. The smell is a little ripe inside, but not enough to detract from the score.

I’ve seen a lot of magic stores struggle, I’ve seen even more do a few things that are… borderline against the rules. But these guys take the cake.
An entire display case full of promos, some of them still in their sealed packages… was just disappointing. The things they get for free, they’re selling to players. Its disrespectful to anyone who played in an event and won it fair, saying their skill and time taken to play int he store is only equal to the bad player’s wallet.
Why should I play in FNM if I can just buy a lingering souls on Saturday?
Every other store i visit does decent jobs pricing their singles, everything in their case was 20−25% higher than even Star City Games. on top of that, no wiggle room, that was his price. he was comfortable with that.
I love the game, and I love seeing great LGSs. Avoid this one, drive the extra distance to go anywhere but here. If I could give this last ditch effort at moneygrubbing 0 stars, I would.
Oh, and just for the record, my experience was so awful, this is my first and only Unilocal review.

Last time I wrote about one specific event, this time I will focus more on the store itself.
Lotus is located inside the plaza adjacent to Cham-​Sut-​Gol (yessssss). This side of the plaza also houses a phở restaurant, a boba tea house (that I recommend avoiding), as well as a few other random stores (there’s a tailor next door if you want to get something altered while you chill here lol). It isn’t ever too busy in that area so there’s always parking, which is great.
The outside of the store is outfitted with one of those heat generators (looks like a mini obelisk that spews fire out the top of it) and chairs for those who want to chill outside for awhile.
Right when you walk in there is a pretty nifty TV and game consoles station. I always see people playing SF 3^rd Strike, Smash Bros, and some other stuff.
In the back is where all the goods are. There are a couple of display cases with magic: the gathering products, as well as accessories. There is a pretty nice selection of sleeves, dices, booster packs, as well as other magic related stuff.
Johnny, the store owner, operates out of a little command center in the back (a closet like room, with a window in the wall for communication).
Throughout the store are a bunch of tables where you’ll always find people hanging out, talking, playing magic or some other stuff, and generally chillin.
As far as prices are concerned, I find Johnny to be extremely fair. He bases his prices off online prices, which makes this place preferable over ordering online, in my honest opinion. He also buys cards if you’re looking to unload. He has a nice little print out booklet with all the cards from recent sets, their prices, and how much he’ll buy them for (which is usually about half the selling price).
About the company you’ll be keeping if you decide to attend an event here:
95% of everyone that comes here is legit friendly and cool, and you’ll make plenty of friends. The other 5% makes you wonder how someone hasn’t beaten the crap out of this person yet lol.
Overall, very good crowd.

Reviewing as a Magic player.
This is the place that’s best for 2 things:
1) Good prices on sealed products and singles
2) Casual Magic
Drafts are low buy in and low prize, so it’s definitely focused on players who just want to have fun. With the decent buy prices, a chase mythic can pay for the entire $ 10 draft itself.
Good inventory of standard singles, with prices adjusted to slightly lower than online mid-​range prices. I see a lot of legacy/​modern stuff, too, but have never actually bought any.
I also see a lot of other CCGs being played here. And there’s an awesome TV setup with Dreamcast/​Gamecube. Good place to hang out. Also has a phở restaurant in the same plaza. And the plaza itself isn’t super busy, so I’ve always found plenty of parking.