Skaff Elias

Skaff Elias is a game designer.

Skaff Elias
Nationality	American
Occupation	Game designer

Career

Skaff Elias started working on Magic: The Gathering at Wizards of the Coast when the company was still fairly new.^[1]: 287 He was one of the designers for various Magic sets, including Arabian Nights (December 1993),^[2] Antiquities (March 1994),^[3] Legends (June 1994),^[3] Fallen Empires (November 1994),^[4] and Ice Age (June 1995),^[4] Mark Rosewater also credits Skaff Elias with the invention of the Magic Pro Tour.^[5]

Elias was responsible for the design work on the Chainmail miniatures game.^[1]: 289 Elias and Richard Garfield designed an MMORPG based on Dungeons & Dragons, which was never published because Hasbro sold the D&D computer game rights to Infogrames.^[1]: 290

He co-authored the D&D manual Miniatures Handbook (2003).

Elias and Garfield also worked on Mind Twist, a free-to-play strategy game from Mind Control Software.^[6]

In 2022, Nerdlab Games published Mindbug, a dueling card game designed by Elias, Garfield, Christian Kudahl, and Marvin Hegen.^{[citation needed]}