Pahrump trading-card shop opens, aims to become community gathering spot

Sky’s Cards opened inside A Payless Mini Storage & U-Haul in Pahrump, giving the valley a new place to buy trading cards, accessories and collectibles while also creating a spot for players to meet and trade. Erik Lindquist opened the shop on Friday, June 26, inside his parents’ business at 2400 E. Basin Ave. Ste. 2.

Lindquist named the store after his dog, Sky, and said he wanted the space to serve local players, collectors and gamers, not just casual shoppers. The store carries Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, One Piece Card Game and Disney Lorcana, with a focus on harder-to-find singles instead of only sealed packs. It also sells binders, Funko Pops, stuffed animals and other collectibles, and Lindquist said retro video games are planned for later.

The shop is designed to do more than ring up sales. Lindquist said customers can use a suggestion box to request games or properties they want on the shelves, and he wants to hold game nights, trade nights and how-to nights so children and adults can learn together. That makes Sky’s Cards part storefront and part gathering place, a format that could help keep hobby spending in the valley for families who would otherwise need to drive out of town for specialty cards and tabletop items.

The location already has steady traffic from self-storage and truck rentals. A Payless Mini Storage & U-Haul lists office hours as Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Storage access runs daily from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. The business says it offers climate-controlled units, secure RV storage and AAA-rated U-Haul rentals.

Pahrump, which had 44,738 residents in the 2020 census, remains the largest community in Nye County, where the population was 51,591. The town sits about 50 miles west of Las Vegas, leaving a broad stretch of the county without easy access to bigger retail corridors. That distance gives niche shops like Sky’s Cards a practical role: they can capture spending that might otherwise leave the valley and give hobbyists a local place to gather.

The new shop also arrives after another card and tabletop business signaled similar demand. Nightfall Games opened in Pahrump on Dec. 13, 2025, and said it wanted to keep hobby spending in Nye County by serving as a retail and social hub. It said 196 visitors came to its grand opening. With Sky’s Cards now open on Basin Avenue, Pahrump has another test of whether the local market can support more than one dedicated trading-card venue.