Aaron Forsythe

Aaron Forsythe
Demographics
Residence	Kent, Washington, United States
Nationality	American
Professional Career
Pro Tour debut	Pro Tour Chicago 1998
Top Finishes	2 (0 wins)
GP top 8s	0

Aaron Forsythe is the Director of Magic R&D and a former Magic: The Gathering pro-player.

Career

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.

Season	Event type	Location	Format	Date	Rank
1999–00	Nationals	Orlando	Special	8–11 June 2000	3
1999–00	Worlds	Brussels	National team	2–6 August 2000	1
2000–01	Pro Tour	New York	Team Limited	29 September – 1 October 2000	2
2000–01	Masters	Tokyo	Team Limited	15–18 March 2001	4
2001–02	Pro Tour	New York	Team Limited	7–9 September 2001	4

→ Source: Wizards.com

List of the Pro Tour results and winnings of Aaron Forsythe
Season	Pro Tour	Format	Finish	Winnings
1998–99	Chicago	Booster Draft	17	$2,400
1998–99	Rome	Extended	46	$610
1998–99	Los Angeles	Rochester Draft	145
1999–00	Washington, D.C.	Team Limited	18
1999–00	Los Angeles	Booster Draft	277
1999–00	Worlds (Brussels)	Special	22	$1,660
2000–01	New York	Team Limited	2	$10,000
2000–01	Chicago	Standard	198
2000–01	Los Angeles	Rochester Draft	87
2000–01	Tokyo	Block Constructed	232
2000–01	Barcelona	Booster Draft	138
2000–01	Worlds (Toronto)	Special	110
2001–02	New York	Team Limited	4	$5,000

→ Source: Wizards.com

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.

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.^[1]^[2] Aaron was writer of Latest Developments from February 2004 till August 2007.^[3]^[4] He became Head Developer in 2006, after Brian Schneider left Wizards of the Coast.^[5] Shortly thereafter, he became Director of Magic R&D after Randy Buehler moved to the new Digital Gaming department.^[6]^[7]^[8]

When the comment section was still working, Aaron sometimes used to comment on random cards in Gatherer.^[9]^[10]