Bill Rose

Bill Rose is a Magic playtester, developer and formerly one of the Lead Designers for Wizards of the Coast. Since November 1995, he is Vice President at Wizards of the Coast and head of R&D. Since 2019, he heads Studio X.

Biography

In the late 1980s, Bill was one of the playtesters from the University of Pennsylvania that Richard Garfield tagged to help get the Alpha card set (and game rules) ready for public consumption. In 1986 he majored in Economics. Bill began working for Wizards in October '95. Together with Joel Mick, Charlie Catino, Don Felice, Howard Kahlenberg and Elliott Segal, Bill formed the "Penn group" that designed Mirage and Visions. He was also part of the "Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules 2007" team working on the Comprehensive Rules Design and Development with Paul Barclay and Beth Moursund.

Playtesting

• Alpha
• Ice Age

Designing

• Revised Edition
• Fourth Edition
• Mirage (co-lead)
• Visions (co-lead)
• Fifth Edition
• Portal (lead)
• Portal Second Age (lead)
• Stronghold
• Exodus
• Urza's Saga
• Anthologies
• Urza's Legacy
• Sixth Edition (lead)
• Starter 1999 (lead)
• Mercadian Masques
• Battle Royale (lead)
• Nemesis
• Prophecy
• Invasion (lead)
• Planeshift
• Torment
• Judgement
• Mirrodin
• Darksteel (lead)
• Champions of Kamigawa
• Betrayers of Kamigawa (lead)
• Coldsnap (lead)
• Planar Chaos (lead)
• Masters Edition
• Shards of Alara (lead)
• Conflux (lead)
• Magic 2010
• Avacyn Restored

Developing

• Revised Edition
• Fourth Edition
• Alliances
• Mirage (co-lead)
• Visions (co-lead)
• Portal (lead)
• Weatherlight
• Portal Second Age (lead)
• Tempest
• Stronghold
• Exodus
• Urza's Saga
• Anthologies
• Urza's Legacy
• Urza's Destiny
• Sixth Edition
• Starter 1999
• Masters Edition
• Lorwyn
• Morningtide (contributions)
• Shards of Alara