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Garfield alters

Garfield alters are cards that had their text changed and signed by Richard Garfield.^[1] There was a common house rule in the 90s that said that if you got Richard Garfield to alter the text of one of your cards, and then sign it, it was to be played as written.^[2]

Known alters:


Text	Original Card	Notes
Ornithopter Lord Artifact Creature Flying All Ornithopters in play gain +1/+1. 0/2	Revised Ornithopter
S(c/l)(o/a)(r/n)(o/d)ing Benalish Hero Summon Hero Bands Tap to cancel 1 creature's attack. 1/1	Revised Benalish Hero	From the collection of Alex Parrish, one of the guys from the Magic tournament at GenCon '93
Serra Angel Summon Angel Flying Attacking does not cause Serra Angel to tap. 7/7	Revised Serra Angel	From the collection of Alex Parrish, one of the guys from the Magic tournament at GenCon '93
Rabid Wombat Summon Wombat Wombat gains +1/+1 for each creature enchantment in play. Attacking does not cause Rabid Wombat to tap. 0/1	Legends Rabid Wombat
Mishra's Workshop Land Tap to add three colorless mana to your mana pool.	Antiquities Mishra's Workshop
Time Walk Sorcery Take an extra turn after this one. If your opponent talks without rhyming, return this from grave to your hand.	Alpha Time Walk
Chaos Orb Mono Artifact : Flip Chaos Orb onto the playing area from a height of at least two feet. Chaos Orb must turn completely over at least once or it is discarded with no effect. When Chaos Orb lands, any cards in play that it touches are ripped up, as is Chaos Orb.	Unlimited Chaos Orb	I got the orb when i ordered a damaged one from a store in the US. After searching for one in sweden for a fairly long time without any luck.
Living Wall Artifact Creature Counts as a wall. : Regenerates. Flies. 0/6	Unlimited Living Wall
Brothers Hourglass Land All players must take their turn within 1 minute or take 1 damage for each minute over that.: Add to your mana pool. Artist: Christopher Rush	Fifth Edition Island 436	Dated 6/7/98
Jester's Cap Artifact , : Sacrifice Jester's Cap to look through target player's library and remove any number of those cards from the game. Reshuffle that library afterwards.	Ice Age Jester's Cap	Garfield Cube
Chaos Orb - Experienced Mono Artifact : Flip Chaos Orb twice onto the playing area from a height of at least one foot. Chaos Orb must turn completely over at least once or it is discarded with no effect. When Chaos Orb lands, any cards in play that it touches are destroyed, as is Chaos Orb.	Alpha Chaos Orb
Chaos Orb Mono Artifact : Flip Chaos Orb onto the playing area from a height of at least ten foot. Chaos Orb must not turn completely over at least once or it is discarded with no effect. When Chaos Orb lands, any cards in play that it touches are destroyed, as is Chaos Orb. Target player gains control of Chaos Orb.	Beta Chaos Orb
Time Walk Sorcery Take an extra turn after this one, pay to keep this card in your hand.	Alpha Time Walk
Balance - Full Sorcery Whichever player has more lands in play must discard enough lands of his or her choice to equalize the number of lands both players have in play. Cards in hand and creatures in play must be equalized the same way. Creatures lost in this manner may not be regenerated. Equalize life also!!	Unlimited Balance	Garfield Cube
Mox Sapphire Land	Revised Island 297	Garfield Cube
Jester's Mask Artifact Comes into play tapped. , : look through target opponent's hand and library. Give that player a new hand of as many cards as he or she had before. Reshuffle the remaining cards afterwards.	Ice Age Jester's Mask	Worlds '[96/98]
Jester's Cap Artifact , : Sacrifice Jester's Cap to look through target player's library and remove any of those cards from the game. Reshuffle that library afterwards.	Ice Age Jester's Cap	Garfield Cube
Circle of Protection: Green Enchantment : Prevents all damage against you from one Cor. If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you must pay 1 mana each time you want to prevent the damage.	Revised CoP Green	Garfield Cube
Circle of Protection: Blue Enchantment : Prevents all damage against you from one Suzanne. If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you must pay 1 mana each time you want to prevent the damage.	Revised CoP Green	Garfield Cube
Helm of Obedience Artifact , : Put the top card of target opponent's library into his or her graveyard. Continue doing this until you have put XX cards or two creature cards into that graveyard, whichever occurs first. If the last card put into the graveyard is a creature card, bury Helm of Obedience and put that creature into play under your control as though it were just cast. X cannot be equal to 0.	Alliances Helm of Obedience	Garfield Cube
Time Vault Mono Artifact Tap to gain an additional turn after the current one. Time Vault does untap normally during your 2nd untap phase; to untap it, you must skip a turn. Time Vault begins tapped.	Beta(?) Time Vault	Garfield Cube
Millstone Artifact , : Take the top 12 cards from target player's library and put them in target player's graveyard.	Revised Millstone	Garfield Cube
Copper Tablet Continuous Artifact Copper Tablet does 1 damage to target player during his or her upkeep.	Beta Copper Tablet	Garfield Cube
Black Lotus Mono Artifact Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt. [Illus. Chris Rush]	Unlimited Black Lotus	Garfield Cube
Budget Mox EmeraldLand : Add to your mana pool.	Revised Forest 305	Garfield Cube
Budget Mox RubyLand : Add to your mana pool.	Revised Mountain 302	Garfield Cube
Budget Mox PearlLand : Add to your mana pool.	Revised Plains 293	Garfield Cube
Mox JetLand : Add to your mana pool.	Revised Swamp 299	Garfield Cube
Black LotusLand	Revised Swamp 299	Garfield Cube
Sol'kanar the Swamp King with Gun Summon Legend Swampwalk Whenever a black spell is successfully cast, do 1 damage to any target.	Chronicles Sol'Kanar	Garfield Cube
Lord of Tresserhorn Summon Legend When Lord of Tresserhorn comes into play, pay 2 life and sacrifice two creatures. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. : Regenerate	Alliances Sol'Kanar	Garfield Cube
Time Walk Sorcery Take 10 extra turns after this one.	Unlimited Time Walk	Garfield Cube
Shivan Dragon Summon Dragon Protection from all colors. Flying, : +1/+0 until end of turn.	Unlimited Shivan Dragon	Garfield Cube
Prosperity Sorcery Each player draws X cards from the graveyard.	Visions Prosperity	Garfield Cube
Channel Sorcery Until end of game, you may add colorless mana to your mana pool at a cost of 1 life per point of mana. These additions are played with the speed of an interrupt. Effects that prevent or redirect damage may not be used to counter this loss of life.	Revised Channel	Garfield Cube
Erhnam Djinn Summon Djinn During your upkeep, you must choose one of opponent's non-wall creatures in play. Until your next upkeep, that creature gains the forestwalk ability. If opponent has no creatures, ignore this effect. Protection from white.	Arabian Nights Erhnam Djinn	Garfield Cube
Bazaar of Baghdad Land Tap to take two cards from your library, after which you may immediately discard three from your hand to your graveyard. If you don't have three or more cards in your hand, discard your whole hand. No spells may be cast between drawing and discarding cards.	Arabian Nights Bazaar	Garfield Cube

Garfield has a reputation for playing with his home-crafted cards. Perhaps most famously, he proposed to his first wife by playing a card named Proposal designed for the occasion. Apart from his alters, he has been known to make brand new oddities and sleeve them up in his decks. When he played in the old school matches at Nebraska's War, his deck was mostly made up of his own creations.

Custom cards

Image	Text	Notes
	One More Time! Sorcery This game doesn't count. Next one does!	blank card from 1997 World Championships decks that took place in Seattle (August 1997)
	Garfield's Gift Enchantment While in play your opponent must speak in rhyme or lose 1 life.	King of Tokyo: Garfield's Gift Promo Card; Garfield Cube
	Coffee Cup of Power Artifact Tap for Sac for Illus. Richard Garfield	Blank world champions card; Garfield Cube
	Lucas's Dream Sorcery Do one damage to opponent for each time you have seen Phantom Menace. Illu. Richard Garfield	Blank world champions card; Dated 6/28/99
	Chance Occurence Instant Roll a die. On a 1, 2, or 3 do that much damage to target of your choice. On a 6 take that much damage. Illu. Richard Garfield	Blank world champions card; Worlds 1996
	Cup of Joe Instant! Draw three cards¦ discard two. Illu. Richard Garfield	Blank world champions card; Worlds 1996

Rumored alters

There was a 3/3 Llanowar Elves somewhere. A copy of Living Wall had flying. A Birds of Paradise could tap to ping one damage. An Ancestral Recall drew 10 cards. I saw him edit a person's [[Phantasmal Image]] to read that it gained "indestructible", and he did a number of edits to peoples' cards that day. set of Demonic Tutors that were altered by Richard Garfield. It was just the name and casting cost changed.

~~Demonic~~ Tutor ~~(1)~~(B)

Sorcery

You may search your library for one card and take it into your hand. Reshuffle your library afterwards.

mountains the tapped for RR and lightning bolts that dealt four damage

playset of Wit's End somewhere that I had him sign and "alter" (sharpied over the 5) to change the mana cost to BB.

a land that I had written “Tap this to do 20 damage to Peter”^[3]

[1] ttps://oldschool-mtg.blogspot.com/2020/11/garfield-signatures-also-alters-part-2.html

[2] ttps://oldschool-mtg.blogspot.com/2016/04/garfield-alters.html

[3] ttps://thegarfieldcube.wordpress.com/tgif/

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