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Mark Rosewater

Working in R&D since '95, Mark became Magic head designer in '03. His hobbies: spending time with family, writing about Magic in all mediums, and creating short bios.

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Designing for Azorius

Welcome to Azorius Week. This is the second of our guild theme weeks for Return to Ravnica block. (Selesnya Week was about a month back.) As I explained during Selesnya Week, we had a series of ten guild theme weeks during the original Ravnica block (y...

When Cards Go Bad Revisited

Every once in a while I like to take a look back at one of my columns that made a big splash in its day and reexamine the issue from today's perspective. Today, the column I've chosen to look back at is one of my most read columns of all times known as...

Nostalgia vs. Innovation

Last week I did a mailbag column where I answered questions about the design of Return to Ravnica. One of the most common questions I got was how did we balance recapturing everything that players liked about Ravnica while still creating something new....

City Mail

From time to time, I like to do mailbag columns. A few years ago, I started focusing the mailbag columns onto certain topics. The topic, both the subject matter and the type of topic it is, changes, but the setup is usually the same. I always begin by...

Designing for Selesnya

Welcome to Selesnya Week. For those keeping count, this is actually the second Selesnya Week. During the original Ravnica block, we had ten guild theme weeks and for Return to Ravnica block, we're doing it again. It's always a challenge to revisit them...