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Richard Garfield

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Richard Garfield is the game designer who created card games like , Netrunner, BattleTech, and board games like RoboRally. Magic: The Gathering is his most successful game and is credited with developing the collectible card game genre.

Garfield earned a Ph.D in combinatorial mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. Most of his work with game design has been with the publisher Wizards of the Coast.