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

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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:

This list was last updated on June 1, 2023. We compared 76 board games for this list and selected the top 30. There's also a print version for this list.
  1. Battle Spirits: Trading Card Game

    All details for the board game Battle Spirits: Trading Card Game and similar games
    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 45 Minutes
    • 10+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  2. Speechless

    All details for the board game Speechless and similar games
    • 3 - 8 Players
    • 45 - 90 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  3. Thunderstone Quest

    All details for the board game Thunderstone Quest and similar games
    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 60 - 90 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
  4. Mechwarrior Solaris VII

    All details for the board game Mechwarrior Solaris VII and similar games
    • 2 - 8 Players
    • 20 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  5. Quarriors!

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    Nominated for 6 awards and won 1.

    More details for Quarriors!
    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 30 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  6. Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men

    All details for the board game Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  7. Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Battle for Faerûn

    All details for the board game Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Battle for Faerûn and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 30 - 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  8. Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man

    All details for the board game Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  9. Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men

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    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  10. Quarriors! Qultimate Quedition

    All details for the board game Quarriors! Qultimate Quedition and similar games
    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 30 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  11. DC Comics Dice Masters: Justice League

    All details for the board game DC Comics Dice Masters: Justice League and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  12. Final Touch

    All details for the board game Final Touch and similar games
    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 15 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  13. Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin

    All details for the board game Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin and similar games
    • 1 - 5 Players
    • 45 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
  14. Terror Below

    All details for the board game Terror Below and similar games
    • 1 - 5 Players
    • 45 - 60 Minutes
    • 10+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  15. Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Faerûn Under Siege

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    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  16. Thunderstone

    All details for the board game Thunderstone and similar games

    Nominated for 4 awards.

    More details for Thunderstone
    • 1 - 5 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
  17. Axis & Allies: War at Sea

    All details for the board game Axis & Allies: War at Sea and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  18. Thunderstone: Dragonspire

    All details for the board game Thunderstone: Dragonspire and similar games
    • 1 - 5 Players
    • 45 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Medium difficulty

    Video reviews for Thunderstone: Dragonspire

    • YouTube Review for the game "Thunderstone: Dragonspire" by BoardGameGeek
      Video is in English
  19. DC Comics Dice Masters: World's Finest

    All details for the board game DC Comics Dice Masters: World's Finest and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
    🔥 Great price!18€ atAmazon.de
  20. DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light

    All details for the board game DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
    🔥 Great price!130€ atAmazon.de
  21. Marvel Dice Masters: Age of Ultron

    All details for the board game Marvel Dice Masters: Age of Ultron and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  22. Agent Hunter

    All details for the board game Agent Hunter and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 15 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  23. Thunderstone Advance: Worlds Collide

    All details for the board game Thunderstone Advance: Worlds Collide and similar games
    • 1 - 5 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
  24. Star Trek: Conflick in the Neutral Zone

    All details for the board game Star Trek: Conflick in the Neutral Zone and similar games
    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 20 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Immediately playable
    🔥 Great price!25€ atAmazon.de
  25. Star Trek: Fleet Captains

    All details for the board game Star Trek: Fleet Captains and similar games
    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 90 - 120 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
  26. DC HeroClix: Batman (Alpha)

    All details for the board game DC HeroClix: Batman (Alpha) and similar games
    • 30 Minutes
    • Immediately playable
  27. Yu-Gi-Oh! Dice Masters

    All details for the board game Yu-Gi-Oh! Dice Masters and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  28. Marvel Dice Masters: Civil War

    All details for the board game Marvel Dice Masters: Civil War and similar games
    • 2 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
    👍 Good price!18€ atAmazon.de
  29. Shadowrun: Crossfire

    All details for the board game Shadowrun: Crossfire and similar games
    • 1 - 4 Players
    • 30 - 60 Minutes
    • 13+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
  30. Thunderstone: Starter Set

    All details for the board game Thunderstone: Starter Set and similar games
    • 2 - 5 Players
    • 45 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Easy to learn

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