Mox Mania, LLC - Madison, Wisconsin

Jordan M.

This is a spacious and beautiful store with a lot of great retail games to buyas well as a generous play area for tabletop games as well as card games!

I was visiting from out of town and stopped in for Magic: the Gathering games of EDH/Commander. The staff was exceptionally kind and informative, and the clientele all were great to play with!

If I lived here, I would definitely be here weekly and I definitely encourage anyone curious to check it out!

They also have sodas available for purchase, and my only gripe was that they didn’t have a better variety of drinks, especially healthier ones, or small bites.

I’ll hopefully be able to return soon!

Kennidy B.

This is the best card shop in town! The whole staff is so kind and welcoming. I can’t recommend it enough. In addition to trading cards, they have a great selection of puzzles and board games and also have space to play games with friends. I appreciate how inclusive and intentional owners are in making this a welcoming third place where those places just don’t exist anymore. If you haven’t been, please give this place a shot!

Peter R.

Mox have been a pillar of the card and board game community in Madison for as long as I can recall (even since before their move to their current location). Staff are always welcoming and willing to help with any and all questions. Despite it not being their primary focus, they carry a great selection of board games (including random gems like a portable version of Catan that is otherwise quite tricky to find).

Emily F.

With Pokémon cards being out of stock everywhere my six year old was devastated, but every-time we come to this store they always have cards in stock. The staff is also very kind, especially to my six year old. One of the staff said to my son “take care of your Pokémon cards and they will take care of you” and now my son says it all the time and takes better care of his cards. Thank you!

Nat H.

Very welcoming environment. I come here for almost every pre-release. Their online store for mtg singles is also phenomenal and picking them up is a breeze.

Mary H.

This is a very nicely put-together game store. From the selection to the layout and decor, it is a very well-rounded place.

Jake W.

Great place to pick up singles. Only store I have heard of where Modern fires in Madison.

Skylar R.

I went here to play magic with my brother and our friend. When we entered we all split up to look at the different things we were interested in before starting our game.
My brother and I were looking at dice while our friend was looking in the Warhammer section. I heard one of the employees ask my friend how he was doing and my friend responded with “I’m having a great time!” and continued to look in the Warhammer section because he was really excited about it. I then saw the employee go over to the other employee sitting behind the counter and whisper stuff to him while pointing at my friend. This made me uncomfortable because based on their gestures and body language, it seemed like they were thinking my friend was trying to steal even though he was simply looking at stuff in the store which was the same thing my brother and i were doing, but the employees didn’t seem to be suspicious of me or my brother. From then on, both employees continued making suspicious glances toward my friend and the first employee took his food over to a table close to my friend to eat it which looked like he was trying to get a better view my friend. As i was checking out the employee behind the counter was making nice conversation with me, but continued to literally whip his head around to look at my friend. This whole situation seemed extremely odd to me because my friend is a person of color and my brother and I are white and the treatment between us and our friend was very different. We were all doing the same thing at different parts of the store (looking at the items for sale) and yet the only person out of the three of us who was being watched like a hawk was our friend. When we all sat down to play magic, I asked my friend if he thought the workers were acting weird around him, he said he could feel them staring at him and noticed they were acting weird around him as if he was going to steal something. He was uncomfortable because he didn’t know what he was doing to make them think he was about to steal anything. He brought up that maybe it was just because he was looking at more expensive stuff, but I whole heartedly believe that if my brother or I went to look at the Warhammer stuff we wouldn’t have gotten the same treatment as our friend did. This isn’t the first time our friend has experienced treatment like this due to his appearance which makes this suck even more. We all purchased stuff from this store before we started playing magic and we all regret giving them business due to the obvious racial profiling that was experienced. Thinking someone is about to steal based solely on what they look like is insane. I hope these employees will do better in the future.