Skaff Elias
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Skaff Elias is a long-time member of Magic R&D and one of the original Magic playtesters and developers who worked on the game before Alpha was released.
Together with Jim Lin, Dave Pettey and Chris Page, he formed a subset of the Alpha Playtesters referred to as the "East Coast Playtesters". Together, they designed the Ice Age and Alliances expansions. [1] Skaff later held such positions as Magic Brand Manager and Senior Vice President of Magic R&D. The Pro Tour was his idea.
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[edit] Playtesting
[edit] Designing
[edit] Developing
- Arabian Nights [3]
- Antiquities
- Revised Edition
- Legends
- The Dark
- Fallen Empires
- Ice Age
- Homelands
- Alliances
- Fifth Edition
[edit] Non-Magic projects
- Star Wars TCG
[edit] Influence
- Skaff was responsible for testing out the rule that limited no more than four copies of a card in a deck. "It was simply because four was the first number suggested and it worked well."
- He also shot down the idea to give different card backs to each expansion set. He correctly identified the problem that if you give cards different backs then you could tell what card you were about to draw.
- Adarkar Sentinel, Adarkar Unicorn and Adarkar Wastes were named for Skaff's friend Aditya Adarkar.
