Skaff Elias is a

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Career

Skaff Elias had been working on ''

Magic: The Gathering ''Magic: The Gathering'' (colloquially known as ''Magic'' or ''MTG'') is a Tabletop game, tabletop and Digital collectible card game, digital Collectible card game, collectable card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards ...

'' at

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when the company was still fairly new. He was one of the designers for various ''Magic'' sets, including Arabian Nights (December 1993),

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(March 1994),

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(June 1994), Fallen Empires (November 1994), and

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(June 1995),

Mark Rosewater Mark Rosewater (born May 25, 1967) is the head designer for ''Magic: The Gathering'', a position he has held since 2003. Biography Rosewater grew up in Pepper Pike, Ohio. In his youth, he worked as a professional magician. Rosewater has descr ...

also credits Skaff Elias with the invention of the Magic Pro Tour. Elias was responsible for the design work on the ''

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'' miniatures game. Elias and

Richard Garfield 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 it ...

designed an MMORPG based on ''

Dungeons & Dragons ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TS ...

'', which was never published because

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sold the ''D&D'' computer game rights to

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. He co-authored the ''D&D'' manual ''

Miniatures Handbook The ''Miniatures Handbook'' is an official supplement for the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Dungeons & Dragons v3.5, 3.5 edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' roleplaying game. Contents The ''Miniatures Handbook'' is a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' s ...

'' (2003). Elias and Garfield also worked on Mind Twist, a free-to-play strategy game from Mind Control Software.Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias join forces with Mind Control Software on ground-breaking Online strategy game
/ref> In 2022, Nerdlab Games published Mindbug, a dueling card game designed by Elias, Garfield, Christian Kudahl, and Marvin Hegen.

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