Mark Rosewater on the two big reasons they decided to have ...

1) It was hugely more popular than we expected (and we were optimistic). 2) It turned out to be an even better entry point for new players than we thought.

Split Decisions - Magic: The Gathering - Wizards of the Coast

In some ways, Bill and I had the simplest jobs. Split cards were my baby. It's not hard to go to the mat for your baby. But the rest of R&D ...

Decisions, Decisions, Part II | MAGIC: THE GATHERING

The reason I chose to use this analogy is that it is a good example ... By making monocolored cards that have dual function, we make ...

When universes beyond was introduced, it was... - Blogatog - Tumblr

Blogatog. Where Question Mark meets Explanation Point. If you're new, start by checking out my FAQ: markrosewater.tumblr.com ...

MTG Needs New Leadership and Why Mark Rosewater (MaRo ...

So because they love MTG and they want to be part of something like this they're willing to take a lesser salary to do the same work but when you go out in the ...

Mark Rosewater Interview | BigAR

It's hard to pick just one influence: Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, Michelangelo's David, the game of Hangman. I was inspired by so many different ...

Mark Rosewater's Lessons on Design

The point about everyone liking a game, and no one loving it absolutely has to do with individual card design, not just Magic as a whole, or the ...

MTG Needs New Leadership and Why Mark Rosewater (MaRo ...

So because they love MTG and they want to be part of something like this they're willing to take a lesser salary to do the same work but when ...

How Trivial with Mark Rosewater - YouTube

Magic: The Gathering Head Designer Mark Rosewater shares stories from the game's 30-year history through the lens of Magic trivia.

Why Does Mark Rosewater Dislike the Upkeep Step? — MTG Forum

Yeah exactly what Delphen7 said. But in addition, Wotc want to move towards players being being able to make more educated decisions - by ...

Why Are So Many Recent Activated Abilities Usable Only as ...

Restrictions like this make for better deck-building challenges, and better game design overall. To steal Marks reply on his Blogatog which you ...

'Magic: the Gathering': 20 Years, 20 Lessons Learned - YouTube

Magic the Gathering head designer Mark Rosewater shares twenty lessons learned over twenty years of designing one of the world's most ...

Magic's head designer explains why it's getting its first new card type ...

As head designer of Magic: The Gathering, you might expect Mark Rosewater to be a rules-over-story guy. His blog, Making Magic, where he ...

Mark Rosewater on X: "Today's #MakingMagic article is part two, of ...

... of "two in one" cards (aka cards that are two cards in one - with the line being it has two names): https://t.co/xz6mgBTrI6 #mtg #WotCStaff.

Blogatog — You often say something akin to "If you don't like...

Why do you have to play against it? Because, by being a Magic player, you accept the will of the people. You accept that part of being a member ...

Yorke on Games #15 – Mark Rosewater for President - MAGIC F2F

Why, you ask? Well, as I hope to explain today, Mark Rosewater's standard practices embody a good number of liberal democratic values in a way ...

Player type - MTG Wiki - Fandom

They do not care whether they win or lose, but want to have fun playing really big effects. Mark Rosewater wrote of Timmy: “, Timmy wants to ...

why i want to fuck mark rosewater - killing a goldfish

Mark Rosewater once wished that writers would review sets from a more holistic perspective rather than going card-by-card,* and it's an ...

For new readers - The Law of Game Design

Mark Rosewater, lead designer of Magic: the Gathering, once made a list of rules for game design to teach to kids. One of the rules was that a game should have ...

The “Tribute” keyword – Good idea, questionable execution

For anyone who does not know it, it is basically a semi-casual rating system that Mark Rosewater put into place, which rates how likely it is ...