In an office building on Ingleside’s Ocean Avenue medical row, Eryk Lewandowski sells all kinds of hot-ticket collectibles, from Pokémon to Magic: The Gathering.
The Marin County resident founded Sords Card Emporium in 2020 after seeing a long line of eager customers mobbing a Target for collectible trading cards.
“Some people that I met in that line I'm still friends with to this day,” Lewandowski, 25, said. “They showed me what they were doing, but then I was like, ‘How can I become Target?’”
Lewandowski, an avid card collector, opened his shop in 2021 after navigating the wholesale distributor system. He said business has been steady at his appointment-only shop and tries to sell his merchandise below market price. His shelves are stocked with, among other collectible items.
