Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant Alter

From Magic: the Gathering, this is an altered art version of Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, hand-painted by Revelen's Light Alters. The card retains is standard art, depicting Ghalta roaring, but the art has been extended, and the text boxes have been visually distressed, with scratches, chips, cracks, and large set of claw slashes through the rules text.

I used to paint these dinosaur alters all the time. When Ixalan released, I painted a single Gishath altered art, with the scratched and slashed up text box, and it created a slow-motion avalanche of further alters over the years. Recently, as Magic: the Gathering has moved away from dinosaurs, I’ve done fewer alters in this style, but this Ghalta commission was an enjoyable revisiting.

This MTG alter was commissioned, and is not for sale.