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AuthorRich Hagon

Richard Hagon is a freelance composer of music for radio, film and TV, a comedian, actor, musician, singer, writer and general multi-purpose walking talking entertainment system. He started playing Magic during Tempest, and has stumbled his way to various Pro Tour Qualifier victories. Harmless and allegedly humorous, he divides his time between Magic and entertainment, and as the host of moxradio he will be delivering coverage throughout 2007 as part of the Event Coverage Team.

Removed From Game – Even More Bang For Your Buck

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Constructed calculations aplenty this week, as Rich Hagon brings you lots of quality ways to stretch those dollars even further in pursuit of the perfect 75 cards. Also includes the closest thing in Magic to Car-Crash TV – ripping open boosters for No Good Reason! Look away now!

Removed From Game — More Bang For Your Buck

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In today’s only Charles Dickens reference here on StarCityGames.com, it’s time to go all Scrooge-like with Rich Hagon, as he starts to explore ways to get the best value out of your cards. Now’s your chance to learn all about Snooker Draft, Triple Sealed, The Joys Of Saturday, Hunger Pangs, and much more. It’s time to get More Bang For Your Buck.

Removed From Game — The Cost Of Lorwyn, Part 2

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In the sequel to last week’s bestseller, Rich Hagon casts not one eye but two over the winners and losers in the coming Magic year. Good news for Drafters talented or otherwise? Constructed formats of delight? Sealed success or Limited limitations? Find out where your dollar, pound, yen, drachma, or euro will be going during the next twelve months. Plus no accountancy joke this week, which will disappoint none of you (plus or minus 10%.)

Removed From Game — The Cost Of Lorwyn, Part 1

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Over the next two weeks, Rich Hagon takes a long hard look at the shape of the Magic year ahead. This week, bold predictions abound, including all the formats and locations for PTQs and PTs alike, plucked God-like from the air, and an insight into the new world of four-expansion Magic. Plus the best accountancy joke in the world

Removed From Game — I Don’t Listen To Hip-Hop

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It’s time to vote with Rich Hagon this week. First he shares with you the Gordian Knot that is the Hall Of Fame ballot, invites you to educate him on all things Hall-like, and then explores the carnage that is the Storyteller vote for the Invitational. Join Rich, and feel thoroughly enfranchised – after all, there’s nothing quite like a good enfranchising…

Removed From Game — Moonbase Alpha

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Not so much Back to The Future, more Back to The Past, as Rich Hagon takes a wry look at the set that started it all way back in 1993. Weird rules, some of the best and worst cards in the history of the game, awesome artwork, it’s all here. Plus the easiest Magic card to recreate, the perfect card to turn up as at a fancy dress party, some Lorwyn speculation, and more.

Removed From Game – Non-Pro, Non-Player Blog

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With Craig Jones’s Pro Player Blog being so popular, the Master of the Magical airwaves Rich Hagon brings you the very antithesis of the Professor’s postulations. Yes, it’s time for five days of musings from the man who’s already made it to every Pro Tour final table this year, and fully expects to be there in Valencia and New York too.

Removed From Game — Choosing Your Deck

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With multiple high-level Constructed tournaments taking place around the globe featuring seats at the World Championships up for grabs, Rich Hagon gives us a guide to Choosing Your Deck. Drawing on the disciplines of psychology, politics and philosophy, but sadly not physiology or physiognomy, the man from mox is heading for Nationals with a clear idea of what you should play if you’re good, and an even better idea of what you should play if you’re not.

This article replaces The Online Outlook, which will be running tomorrow.

Removed From Game — Catching Up With The Pros

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Yes, the Player of the Year Race has been updated over on the Mothership, and Rich Hagon’s back from the trenches to tell you what it all means. Four Grand Prix tournaments and a mighty fine Pro Tour come under the spotlight with his trademark sentences that should have stopped many words ago, but seem to take on a life of their own, which is understandable given that, if you’ve ever met the man, you can see the…

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Removed From Game — Road to Regionals: Standard From Scratch

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Quantum Mechanics, Bolivian Dance, and Standard. Three things Rich Hagon knew nothing about last Wednesday. Join him as he attempts to rectify one of these deficiencies. Yes, soon you’ll know that Bolivian dance repertoire, like other Andean cultures, consists of pre-Colombian dances performed in rural areas during religious and secular community celebrations, as well as the European influenced mestizo dances performed at popular festivals and celebrations of patron saints. Welcome to SupremelyCulturedGamers.com.

Removed From Game – Conversations With Your Deck

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Join Rich Hagon as he gives you all the tools for Sealed play that you need to have Conversations With Your Deck. Marvel as such household favourites as Basal Sliver, Skulking Knight, Drudge Reavers and Angel’s Grace come alive before your disbelieving eyes. Soon you too can be mumbling into your beard, and heading for the asylum. All the world’s a stage!

Removed From Game – Making Mistakes So You Don’t Have To

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Join Rich as he finds yet more inventive ways to lose at Magic. Featuring a dozen MTGO matchups, he muddles and befuddles his way through Time Spiral Block Constructed, sharing stuff that you either knew already, or feel really dirty about not knowing. But that’s okay, Rich is your friend, and he’s Making Mistakes So You Don’t Have To…

Removed From Game – Since Last We Met

Taking over from Rivien Swanson, and appearing here every Wednesday, we have the one and only Richard Hagon! It’s been a while since he last wrote, but the man from Mox is here to take you through all the comings and the goings, the throwing down and the throwing up, and all the news that’s fit to print from the Pro world.

Removed From Game – The Pro Year So Far

With only Grand Prix: not Boston between us and the next Pro Tour event of the year in Yokohama, it’s time to bring you up to speed with all the goings on in the world of Pro Magic. For reference, here’s my 100% unofficial database of what’s happened so far. This time around, we’ll be taking a top-down approach, meaning that if you’re looking for a pithy comment on the juicy two-point brigade, you’re going to need either a lot of patience or a scroll button. Let’s rock ‘n’ roll…