Richard Garfield

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Garfield
Occupation	Game Designer
Date Of Birth	Jun 26, 1963(1963-06-26)
Age	61
Birthplace	Philadelphia
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Gemini

Richard Garfield Biography

Richard Garfield is one of the most popular and richest Game Designer who was born on June 26, 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. This designer is best known for his creation of Magic: The Gathering, but he also created such card and board games like Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, RoboRally, and Vampire: The Eternal Struggle.

Mark Rosewater joined him on the Magic: The Gathering design team. joined him as part of the Magic: The Gathering design group.

Garfield built on older prototypes of games that dated back to at least 1982, when he had created a Cosmic Encounter-inspired card game called “Five Magics.” Garfield thus combined ideas from two previous games to invent the first trading card game, Magic: The Gathering. At first, Garfield and Adkison called the game “Manaclash,” and worked on it in secret during Palladium’s lawsuit against Wizards, protecting the game’s intellectual property under a shell company called Garfield Games. Garfield began designing Magic as a Penn graduate student. Garfield’s playtesters were mostly fellow Penn students.

While searching for a publisher for RoboRally, which he designed in 1985, Wizards of the Coast began talking to Garfield through Mike Davis, but the game looked too expensive for a new company like Wizards to produce. Peter Adkison of Wizards of the Coast expressed interest in a fast-playing game with minimal equipment, something that would be popular at a game convention. Adkison asked Garfield to develop a game that was cheaper to produce than RoboRally, that might be more portable and even easy to carry around to conventions; Garfield did have an idea about combining baseball cards with a card game and began turning that rough idea into a complete game over the next week.

He was the son of an architect father and was born in Pennsylvania. His teenage years were spent in Oregon. His paternal great grandfather was United States President He was born in Pennsylvania to an architect father, and he spent his teenage years in Oregon. His paternal great-great grandfather was United States President James A. Garfield..

Richard Garfield Net Worth

Richard Garfield is one of the richest Game Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Garfield 's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In his teens, he began to design games. He then went on to study mathematics at Penn State. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 and began teaching at Whitman College, Washington.

After his first experience with Dungeons & Dragons, he felt inspired to design games.

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 modern 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 the board game RoboRally. He also created a variation of the card game Hearts called Complex Hearts. 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. Garfield and Magic are both in the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame.

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Who is Richard Garfield Dating?

According to our records, Richard Garfield married to Koni Kim. As of December 1, 2023, Richard Garfield’s is not dating anyone.

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He still sporadically contributes to Magic: The Gathering. More recently, he has created the board games Pecking Order (2006) and Rocketville (2006). The latter was published by Avalon Hill, a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast. He has shifted more of his attention to video games, having worked on the design and development of Schizoid and Spectromancer as part of Three Donkeys LLC. He has been a game designer and consultant for companies including Electronic Arts and Microsoft.

Facts & Trivia

Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Game Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Richard Garfield celebrates birthday on June 26 of every year.

How rich is Richard Garfield?

Richard Garfield net worth: Richard Garfield is an American mathematician, inventor, and game designer who has a net worth of $10 million.

Does Richard Garfield still play magic?

Garfield still sporadically contributes to Magic: The Gathering , for instance as part of the design team for the 2005 expansion Ravnica: City of Guilds, the 2011 fall expansion, Innistrad and the 2018 spring set Dominaria.

Does Richard Garfield make money from magic?

In 2000 toy giant Hasbro purchased Wizards—which also published hit fantasy games such as Pokémon and Dungeons & Dragons—for $450 million. Garfield got more than $100 million. “It was a good year,” he says. Today Garfield draws a $75,000 salary as a consultant for Hasbro on Magic: The Gathering.

How old is Richard Garfield?

58 years (June 26, 1963)

Who invented magic cards?

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.