Alter (Dark) (Promotional Foil)
This is the Dark Side Premiere card.For the other cards titled Alter, see Alter.
| Title | Alter |
|---|---|
| Side | Dark |
| Type | Interrupt — Used Interrupt |
| Set | Promotional Foils |
| Set icon | none |
| Publisher | Decipher |
| Era | Decipher era |
| GEMP ID | 1_234* |
| Rarity | U1 |
| Uniqueness | Unrestricted |
| Destiny | 4 |
| Icons | Interrupt |
| Versions | Decipher - this page (1_234)Decipher - Alter (Light) (Premiere) ( 1_71)Decipher (Japanese) - Alter (Dark) (Premiere) (Japanese) ( 1301_234o), Premiere (Japanese), April 1997Decipher (Japanese) - Alter (Light) (Premiere) (Japanese) ( 1301_71o), Premiere (Japanese), April 1997Decipher - Alter (Dark) (Coruscant) ( 12_145)Decipher - Alter (Light) (Coruscant) ( 12_54)Virtual Legacy - Alter (V) (Dark) (Premiere) (Virtual Block 7) ( 601_196)Virtual Legacy - Alter (V) (Premiere) (Virtual Block 7) ( 601_239)Virtual Legacy - Alter (V) (Coruscant) (Virtual Block 7) ( 1271_43)Virtual Legacy - Alter (V) (Dark) (Coruscant) (Virtual Block 7) ( 1271_21)Virtual Modern - Alter (Premiere) (V) ( 200_48)Virtual Modern - Alter (Premiere) (V) (Dark) ( 200_115)Virtual Modern - Alter (Coruscant) (V) ( 200_143)Virtual Modern - Alter (Coruscant) (V) (Dark) ( 200_144) |
For the Light Side card, see Alter.
Alter is a Dark Interrupt (Used Interrupt) from Promotional Foils.
Card Text
Cancel one Effect (or Utinni Effect) by drawing a destiny < ability of your highest-ability character on table. OR Cancel one Sense card just played.
Lore
A user of the Force can subjugate the will of others or alter the environment at a distance, as when Vader 'disciplines' those whose lack of faith disturbs him.
Joke
The quotation marks around "disciplines" stand for Darth Vader's Force choke: in Star Wars he chokes Admiral Motti, whose "lack of faith" he finds "disturbing".[1] It is part of the running gag of cards where Vader chokes his own officers. See Jokes.
Rulings
- Cannot cancel an Immediate Effect, Mobile Effect, Political Effect, or Starting Effect.[2]
- The first function requires targeting a specific character with ability for the comparison.
- Can be played as a top-level action.
- Can be played as a response to the attempted deployment of an Effect or Utinni Effect. If successful, the target has no result.
Canceled by
- Control
- Control (EP1)
- Control & Tunnel Vision
- Sense
- Sense (EP1)
Cancels
- One Effect
- One Utinni Effect
- Sense
- Sense (EP1)
- Sense & Recoil In Fear
Counterpart
Underlying card for
See Also
Sources
- Premiere Dark Side card list at Decipher.com (archive, 11 June 2002)
- Original printed face: Alter, Decipher (archived 12 June 2002).
- Complete Card List (Decipher PDF, archive 28 September 2007) — Dark Interrupt: Alter, Premiere, U1
- Collecting Encyclopedia 3.2, pp. 34, 87.[3]
References
- ↑ Star Wars: A New Hope script, IMSDb. Preserved copy: Internet Archive, 20 July 2026.
- ↑ Scomp Link Access: Alter (Dark), scomp.starwarsccg.org. Preserved copy: Internet Archive.
- ↑ SWCCG Collecting Encyclopedia 3.2, pp. 34, 87. Preserved copy: Internet Archive (8 October 2026).