

While on The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, she was a prolific design contributor and originated the first version of the card that would become Gandalf the Grey, among other legendary characters. Like Glenn, Ari has since moved to another game design company.

As one of the set design leads on Throne of Eldraine, Mark was also an experienced foodie and helped ensure the Limited format remained aggressive even with all these lazy Hobbits snacking. Mark was Glenn's first strong second, mentoring him on the nuts and bolts of building a Magic set from scratch and iterating on early mechanics and Limited environments. His familiarity with the source material and experience leading or consulting on preceding Universes Beyond sets gave him the experience necessary to build a lot of processes from scratch on this first effort, and he shepherded the set through the entirety of an unusually long design cycle. This was Glenn's first time leading set design for a booster set, and it would prove to be among his last, as he left the company at the end of 2022.
