“The metagame” in MTG was popularized by the game’s creator, Richard Garfield after playing a lot of Cosmic Encounter and other games. He wrote a great paper o

“The metagame” in MTG was popularized by the game’s creator, Richard Garfield after playing a lot of Cosmic Encounter and other games. He wrote a great paper on it here: https://edt210gamestechsociety.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/2000-garfield-metagame.pdf https://edt210gamestechsociety.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/2...