Richard Garfield is the
game designer[?] who created card games like
Magic: The Gathering,
Netrunner,
BattleTech,
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle[?] 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.