What is the Wizards Play Network (WPN)?

What WPN gives a shop

Sanctioned events (Friday Night Magic, Commander nights, Standard Showdown), prerelease kit allocations, promotional cards for in-store events, listing in Wizards' store locator, and access to WPN Tickets — the digital prize-support currency.

Above the baseline, WPN Premium adds larger event allocations, marketing support, and the ability to run higher-tier events. Premium has additional space, staffing, and event-frequency requirements.

Eligibility basics

Applicants need a physical retail location, a business licence, and the ability to host regular Magic events. Wizards reviews stock breadth, staffing, and event frequency. New stores can apply but typically wait for a quarterly application window.

Why this matters in card-shop software

Terms like WPN are not just vocabulary. They shape how a card shop models products, prices, customers, trade-ins, events, and marketplace listings. Generic ecommerce platforms usually treat these details as notes or custom fields; a TCG platform has to make them part of the workflow so staff can use them at the counter and customers can use them online.

Storefront Pro uses this kind of operational language throughout the platform: product records, buylist rules, POS screens, autopricing, deckbuilder results, and marketplace sync all depend on the same definitions. That consistency is what keeps inventory accurate when the same card can be sold in-store, online, or on a marketplace in several conditions at once.

Related terms

• WPN Premium — WPN Premium is the higher tier of Wizards Play Network membership for Magic: The Gathering retailers. Premium stores get bigger prerelease allocations, exclusive promotional cards, marketing support, and the right to host higher-tier sanctioned events.
• Prerelease — A prerelease is the in-store event held the week before a new trading-card set hits general retail. Players pay an entry fee to open sealed product from the new set early, build a deck, and play in a small tournament — usually with promotional cards as prize support.
• Friday Night Magic — Friday Night Magic (FNM) is the weekly recurring casual Magic: The Gathering event run on Friday evenings at WPN-recognised stores. It's the most consistent in-store event in trading-card retail and the backbone of most card shops' Friday revenue.