Aaron Forsythe

Aaron Forsythe is the Vice President of Magic Design at Studio X and a former Magic: The Gathering Pro-player.
==Career==
===Professional play===
Aaron started playing Magic: The Gathering in 1994. His first cards were from Revised and were a gift from his mother. He made appearances on Pro Tours between 1997 and 2001 and was a member of Team CMU. He took 3rd place at 2000 US Nationals, losing to Jon Finkel but beating Mike Long and Mike Turian to join Finkel, Chris Benafel, and Frank Hernandez on the USA team for the 2000 World Championships. The Americans went on to win the Team portion of Worlds that year. He has two Pro Tour Top 8s, both as part of Car Acrobatic Team: PT New York 2000 and PT New York 2001. He has 69 lifetime Pro Points.
====Accomplishments====
====Pro Tour Results====
===Columnist===
Aaron was contributing editor on Meridian Magic. He took over the Latest Developments column after Randy Buehler left it. He wrote articles for Star City Games from 2000 to 2002.
===Wizards of the Coast staff===
Aaron became Editor for magicthegathering.com when it opened in 2002. After participating in the Future Future League, he was selected as part of the Fifth Dawn design team. This led to him becoming a full-time member of Magic R&D. Aaron was writer of Latest Developments from February 2004 till August 2007. He became Head Developer in 2006, after Brian Schneider left Wizards of the Coast. Shortly thereafter, he became Director of Magic R&D after Randy Buehler moved to the new Digital Gaming department. In May 2019, Forsythe became Vice President of Design.
When the comment section was still working, Aaron sometimes used to comment on random cards in Gatherer.
As Vice President of Design, Aaron is in charge of the design, production, editing, creative worldbuilding, and art teams for Magic, including both the in-house IP and Universes Beyond. Until The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, he was curator of The List.
====Designing====
====Developing====
==References==
==External links==
*2000 US Nationals coverage
*2000 Worlds coverage
*Aaron Forsythe author archive at magicthegathering.com
*Aaron Forsythe author archive on Star City Games
*The Other Women of Magic: Dating a Pro Player - by Anne Forsythe
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