Alter 29 - Sword of Body and Mind

As I mentioned before, I was commissioned to do extensions on all 5 of the awesome swords, and here is the next one I did. I really love the art on this sword and it was really sweet to do the alter. I also hate to be that guy, but man taking pictures of these altered cards is *really* difficult. They look much better in real life, and I have heard other alterers say as much as well. Oh well :)

Alter 28 - Maze of Ith

My buddy Mike has been hankering for one of these for a long time, and I finally dove into the Maze on this long weekend. This is the first old frame card I have done, and it was pretty challenging. The new frames give you a nice template for doing an extension, but the old does not. I think this was the 2nd hardest one I have done (curse you Viggo Momirson), but I also think I learned the most from this one. Nothing like pushing your boundaries!

Alter 27 - Sword of War and Peace

I recently got my biggest commission yet, my friend Steven wants a full set of swords altered, so this would be the first. These are going to be pretty challenging for me, and it's kind of daunting staring down 5 cards but I am happy to meet the challenge. This is the first of the 5, not sure why I chose this one but I am pretty happy with it. As always I only see the things the bug me about the job I did, but when its sitting on the table bashing someone for a million damage, it looks sweet :)

Alter 26 - Solemn Simulacrum

Oh you sad sad robot you. I had never resolved one of these until M12 came out and man, was I missing out. Those that know me know I love value from my cards, and this guy just pukes it out on the table. I vastly prefer this art to the awkward chubby kid one on the old card too, so away I went :)

Alter 25 - Momir Vig, Simic Visionary

My buddy Chuck uses this bastard as his Commander. We call the deck "Vigo Momirson". I wanted to do this alter for him for a while, but was pretty intimidated by how complex this card is, so I kept putting it off. Last night however, I confronted Vigo.

Guy is a serious jerk. The colors, details and all that were ridiculous on this, and he almost won me over. I ended up being happy with the result, but it took forever and there were times I just wanted to shove his creepy bald head into that vat and see how long it took.

In the end, it cost me a friendship to do this alter, as I have vowed to never speak to Chuck again after putting me through this.

You win this round Vigo!

Alter 24 - Birthing Pod

Right when I saw Birthing Pod I knew it was a cool card. I didn't know if I would be casitng in Standard (I have already), but I knew it was cool. I might throw this in an EDH deck? Not really sure what to do with it, but I just knew I wanted to do an extension on it.

Alter 23 - Mental Misstep

A legacy staple, and maybe even Standard playable at some point. This card will be around for a while, and I think I might even just do 4 of these. I have 2 Japanese ones as well... hmm. :)