Richard Garfield is a game designer and mathematics professor who is known for creating the very popular card game Magic: The Gathering, considered to be the first collectible card game (CCG). Magic debuted in 1993 and its success spawned many imitations. Garfield oversaw the successful growth of Magic and followed it with other game designs. Included in these are Keyforge, Netrunner, BattleTech(CCG), Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, Star Wars Trading Card Game, The Great Dalmuti, Artifact and RoboRally. Garfield first became passionate about games when he played the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, so he designed Magic decks to be customizable like roleplaying characters.
In 1985, Garfield received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer mathematics. After college, he joined Bell Laboratories, but soon after decided to continue his education and attended the University of Pennsylvania, studying combinatorial mathematics for his PhD. Garfield studied under Herbert Wilf and earned a Ph.D. in combinatorial mathematics from Penn in 1993.
Garfield and Magic are both in the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame. List of Notable Games:
1993 Magic: The Gathering
1994 RoboRally
1994 Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
1996 Netrunner
1996 BattleTech CCG
2002 Star Wars: Trading Card Game
2006 Rocketville
2011 King of Tokyo
2012 Android: Netrunner
2014 King of New York
2015 Treasure Hunter
2016 Robo Rally
2017 Bunny Kingdom
2018 KeyForge: Call of the Archons
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