The best games from Mike Elliott 🇺🇸👨 2023

Looking for a really good game from game designer Mike Elliott 👨? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best Mike Elliott games 2023.

Who is Mike Elliott anyway?

Mike Elliott has been designing dice, card & board games since 1993. The game designer hails from Seattle, USA🇺🇸, was born in 1962 and still lives in Seattle 🇺🇸. He is also known as Michael Elliott.

Elliott's first game Dirtside II he developed in 1993 at the age of 31 - so he has been designing games for over 30 years. Famous Elliott games are for example Thunderstone, some Magic: The Gathering Expansions or Shadowrun: Crossfire.

"Most prolific Magic Designer"

Magic lead designer Mark Rosewater called him "one of the most prolific Magic designers in the history of the game." At the 2017 Origins Game Fair, he was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Hall of Fame.

From bridge player to Magic expansion author

While living in Phoenix, Arizona, in the early 1990s, Elliott and several of his friends were active bridge players and regularly competed in tournaments. One night after a tournament, a friend introduced the group to the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. When Elliott returned home, he purchased the game and began participating in Magic tournaments. During a Magic tournament at Arizona State University, Elliott told two fellow players what he thought was wrong with the game. During the conversation, they revealed that they worked for Wizards of the Coast. One of them, Joel Mick, invited Elliott to fly to Seattle and interview for a job with the company.

How good are "Mike Elliott" games?

There are 9 games by Mike Elliott in our Top1000 games list, making Elliott the #18 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.

More information about Elliott

More information about Elliott can be found on:

• Elliott's BGG profile
• Elliott's Twitter feed
• official Mike Elliott website
• Wikipedia entry for Elliott

List of best games by Mike Elliott 2023

In this list we have listed the best board games that Mike Elliott either designed himself - or was involved in designing.

Unfortunately, not all of Mike Elliott's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by Mike Elliott that you can buy 2023: