Jeff Franzmann
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Jeff Franzmann, also known as Canticle, is a Canadian author. He wrote a column titled "Single Card Strategies" and invented Gleemax, a fictional brain-in-a-jar that supposedly controls R&D.
Career
Single Card Strategies was initially self-published on Usenet, and later carried in several issues of The Duelist. More than 80 of Franzmann's columns were collected into Single Card Strategies for Magic: The Gathering, a book published in 1996. Philip Kramer and Beth Moursund are credited as co-authors. Franzmann framed his columns in short fiction, for which he invented the plane of Torwynn and included his personal character, Canticle.
The Vorthos Cast contrasted Torwynn with another plane, Antausia. The creator of Antausia, Shawn Carnes, was a member of the Creative team when he created that plane, but Franzmann was never a Wizards of the Coast employee. While acknowledging that Torwynn had been named in an official source (The Duelist), they reasoned that by virtue of the differing statuses of their authors, Antausia had been "inherited" into the canon, but Torwynn "hasn't exactly been inherited" in the same manner, and judged that neither plane would be revisited.[1] The Fertile Lands of Saulvinia, depicting Antausia, was printed in 2023.
Franzmann created the character Gleemax in a sarcastic response to a Usenet thread asking whether "there [is] a brain behind" R&D.[2]
References
- ↑ https://soundcloud.com/user-345643028/152-obscure-planes-and-planeswalkers
- ↑ WOTC R&D is there a brain behind it? (en). Google Groups. Archived from the original on 2025-12-21.