Richard Garfield
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Richard Channing Garfield (born June 26, 1963) is an American mathematician, inventor and game designer. Garfield created Magic: The Gathering, which is considered to be the first collectible card game (CCG). Magic debuted in 1993 and its success spawned many imitations.[1]
Richard Garfield | |
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Born | Richard Channing Garfield (1963-06-26) June 26, 1963 (age 60) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Education | University of Pennsylvania (BS, PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Mathematician, inventor, game designer |
Known for | Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner |
Relatives | James A. Garfield (Great-Great-Grandfather) |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | On the residue classes of combinatorial families of numbers (1993) |
Doctoral advisor | Herbert Wilf |
Website | www |
Garfield oversaw the successful growth of Magic and followed it with other game designs.[2] Included in these are Keyforge, Netrunner, BattleTech(CCG), Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, Star Wars Trading Card Game, The Great Dalmuti, Artifact and the board game RoboRally. He also created a variation of the card game Hearts called Complex Hearts.[3] Garfield first became passionate about games when he played the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons,[4] so he designed Magic decks to be customizable like roleplaying characters.[5] Garfield and Magic are both in the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame.[6]