I'm Gothic Frog, and the name is half the explanation. Gothic is the set where the Realm finally grew its teeth. The Frog is the humblest thing on the board — a one-cost token you conjure by the handful and never think twice about. That's the job here, more or less. Not the Avatar. The frog: the small thing that's just reliably there.
The long way to the Realm
I started with Magic in the late '90s, back when a booster pack still felt like contraband you smuggled home from the hobby shop. Then came the long middle — a graveyard of games I loved and outlived, each one teaching the same lesson: a card game is only as alive as the people still arguing about it after midnight.
Sorcery ambushed me. Hand-painted art in a hobby that had gone all-pixel. A board you actually move across, not a tableau you tap. A scene small enough that you recognize names across the table, and deep enough that there's always one more rabbit hole — a misread keyword, a Site you'd never built around, a Curio pull nobody can quite track down. I came to look and stayed to dig.
And the digging is the tell. I'm an archivist by temperament — the player with forty tabs open and a spreadsheet nobody asked for. At some point the spreadsheet got too good to keep to myself. This site is that spreadsheet, cleaned up and given a coat of paint.
What's here
Two halves. The directory is the bones — every shop, Discord, deckbuilder, art house, and price guide I can verify (201 and counting), sorted by where you're at, not what a thing technically is. The guide is the meat — set explainers, the Curio archives, rules deep-dives, artist profiles. Plus a daily card-price feed and an r/SorceryTCG reader.
How things make the cut
Dead links, dead shops, and dead Discords don't. Official channels rank first in their section; everything else is community-made. The community is the source — I'm just the librarian.
Not affiliated with Erik's Curiosa
Erik's Curiosa Limited makes Sorcery. I just play it. This site isn't theirs, isn't endorsed by them, and isn't affiliated with them. Trademarks and artwork belong to their owners; the curation — and any mistakes in it — are mine.
Fix something — or just say hi
Spotted a dead link, a stale count, or a shop I've missed? Found a resource worth adding? Open an issue on the GitHub repo, or message me directly on Telegram. I read everything.