Zach Barash
Zachary "Zach" Barash is a Game Designer and Digital Product Manager for MTG Arena at Wizards of the Coast.
Career
Barash holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Game Design, which he earned from New York University between 2015 and 2017. Before that, he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Philosophy with a focus on Japanese at Union College, studying from 2005 to 2009.
Barash started his career at Hipsters of the Coast in 2013 as a Senior Staff Writer, where he wrote a weekly column about game design and Magic: the Gathering.[1] In 2014, he joined Kingdom Death and took on various roles, including Game Designer, Senior Game Designer, and eventually Lead Game Designer in 2019. During his tenure at Kingdom Death, Zachary was responsible for designing expansions, creating game mechanics, writing story events and rules, overseeing QA, and collaborating with designers and company leads. Zachary also served as the interim director of game design in 2019. In May 2023, he started working for Wizards of the Coast.[2][3]
For MTG Arena, he designs and implements play experiences for all MTG Arena players, including event schedule, preconstructed decks, digital cards and formats, and all cubes.[3]
References
- ↑ Zach Barash (May 21, 2023). "10 Years of Drawing Live". Coolstuffinc.com.
- ↑ Zachary Barash. TheOrg.com.
- ↑ a b Zachary Barash Profile. Linkedin.com.