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.

### 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

* *Fifth Dawn*
* *Ninth Edition*
* *Ravnica: City of Guilds*
* *Guildpact*
* *Dissension* (lead)
* *Coldsnap*
* *Time Spiral*
* *Tenth Edition*
* *Masters Edition*
* *Lorwyn* (lead)
* *Morningtide*
* *Shards of Alara*
* *Alara Reborn* (lead)
* *Magic 2010* (lead)
* *Planechase*
* *Rise of the Eldrazi*
* *Magic 2011* (lead)
* *Premium Deck Series: Fire & Lightning*
* *Magic 2012*
* *Dragon's Maze*
* *Modern Masters*
* *Magic 2015* (lead)
* *Commander 2014*
* *Eternal Masters*
* *Dominaria*
* *Core Set 2021* (lead)
* *Modern Horizons 2*

#### Developing

* *Nineth Edition*
* *Ravnica: City of Guilds*
* *Guildpact*
* *Time Spiral*
* *Tenth Edition*
* *Masters Edition*
* *Shadowmoor* (lead)
* *Eventide* (lead)
* *From the Vault: Dragons*
* *Shards of Alara*
* *Zendikar*
* *Scars of Mirrodin*
* *Premium Deck Series: Fire & Lightning*
* *New Phyrexia* (lead)
* *Modern Masters*
* *Magic 2014*
* *Core Set 2019*
* *Throne of Eldraine*
* *Modern Horizons 2* (lead)
* *Adventures in the Forgotten Realms*

## References

1. ↑ ***a*** ***b*** ***c*** Wizards of the Coast (October 20, 2023). "Play Booster Discord Q&A". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
2. ↑ Aaron Forsythe (September 24, 2003). "My First Card". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
3. ↑ Aaron Forsythe (February 13, 2004). "The Life and Times of Autospell". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
4. ↑ Randy Buehler (January 30, 2004). "Looking Forward, Looking Back". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
5. ↑ Aaron Forsythe (August 31, 2007). "A Round of Goodbyes". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
6. ↑ Mark Rosewater (June 19, 2006). "Law and Order". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
7. ↑ Aaron Forsythe (March 09, 2007). "How I Got Here, Part 1". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
8. ↑ Aaron Forsythe (March 23, 2007). "How I Got Here, Part 2". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
9. ↑ Aaron Forsythe (April 06, 2007). "How I Got Here, Part 3". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
10. ↑ Monty Ashley (October 07, 2010). "Aaron's Random Card Comments". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.
11. ↑ Aaron Forsythe (August 01, 2011). "Aaron's Random Card Comment Archive". *magicthegathering.com*. Wizards of the Coast.

## External links

* Lifetime Top Finishes
* Lifetime Grand Prix Top 8s
* Top 200 All-Time Money Leaders\*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