Is there a website where I could pick up some cheap altered basics, or is eBay/Amazon my best option?
Altered how? Your best bet is to make your own. Hand done is expensive, and zendikar is "too mainstream" probably.
There's a person on Etsy that makes some nice alters. I picked up a few Lord of the Rings and Star Wars lands. He uses foil basic lands...charges like $5 per card
I made these recently, but foils can be done too
Full Art Mountain The Hobbit Alter (https://db.tt/5ZXFjnad)
Full Art Forest Alter 1 (https://db.tt/6rKXO8tv)
Full Art Forest Alter 2 (https://db.tt/AYYzKKK9)
Those are some sweet forests! I own a plotter, printer and scanner, is it difficult to make your own?
Quote from: Noblellama on February 19, 2015, 08:47:23 AM
Mick has mastered the art of printing direct on card, like really.
I do appliqué proxies to foils which are a bit easier.
While I don't own any of his work I think it is masterful.
Mike made this for me
https://db.tt/7N8xmr3l
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ayye! thank you dudes! you guys are too kind. I think the main thing for doing it is getting lucky with a printer that wont get the cards stuck, and I fell upon a very nice laser one. If yours dont get stuck its pretty simple. I think its the easiest way of altering or proxying, but like Llama learned the hard way, it can break a printer if its not the right one.