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Commander / EDH Competitive Five Color Infinite Combo Primer Sliver Tribal

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Land (33)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Vandalblast

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tamiyo, Collector of Tales

Creature (23)

• 1x Acidic Sliver
• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Basal Sliver
• 1x Blur Sliver
• 1x Cloudshredder Sliver
• 1x Crystalline Sliver
• 1x Dormant Sliver
• 1x Dregscape Sliver
• 1x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Harmonic Sliver
• 1x Heart Sliver
• 1x Hibernation Sliver
• 1x Homing Sliver
• 1x Manaweft Sliver
• 1x Mindlash Sliver
• 1x Necrotic Sliver
• 1x Quick Sliver
• 1x Root Sliver
• 1x Screeching Sliver
• 1x Sliver Hivelord
• 1x Sliver Legion
• 1x Sliver Queen
• 1x Telekinetic Sliver

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite

Commander (1)

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Faces of the Past
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Mana Echoes
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe *f-pre*
• 1x Steely Resolve
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Unnatural Selection

Instant (12)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Ertai's Meddling
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pull from Eternity
• 1x Silence
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer

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"It would take another apocalypse to stop the slivers now."

Our Overlord and Savior

Introduction

Hello and welcome to being targeted the moment you place your deck down. Let's be honest, are tribal sliver decks tier 1? No, they're certainly not. Do people hate on it as if it were? You betcha. So be sure to take the deck with a pile of salt, because you're sure to be dishing in out all around. So first things first, "Why slivers you mad lad?" Great question. It all started nearly six years ago when I became consumed by Wizards and they're infernal card game. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was doing it well. I had a friend lend me their Derevi, Empyrial Tactian deck for awhile and let me tell you, I got molly wopped over and over again because I didn't realize how Derevi even worked. That's where a lifelong career of misplays and RTFC moments began. Going forward, I wanted to make my own deck and learn everything there was to learn about mtg. That's where I first saw slivers. I had instantly fallen in love with the mechanic of "I have this thing? You have this thing!" thus making all my creatures essentially copies of one another that kept getting better. I didn't build it though because the moment i mentioned slivers, I got the largest collective moan I've ever received. Instead I built Ghave, Guru of Spores and I really started to love the idea of tokens and combos. (especially infinite ones) Throughout the years, more silvers were printed and my desire just grew and grew until I finally decided to just go for it. I did so right before Modern Horizons got spoiled so I but it before slivers became ridiculously priced. So without further ado, let's get into it.

Why You Should Play This Deck

• Synergies
• Swarming opponents relentlessly
• Infinite combos
• Sliver shenanigans
• You are okay with being targeted for no reason other than existing
• Consistency

Reasons to NOT Play

• Five color intimidates you
• Complicated strategy

Thinking with a hive mind

Sliver Overlord and His Toolbox

Here we have our commander of our sliver army. He cost WUBRG, is a 7/7, and is a sliver tutor on a stick. Once you drop him, the clock starts ticking. We've got a whopping twenty-four slivers to chose from, (considering we haven't played any yet for some odd reason) and knowing which one to get first can be tricky. If you don't already have either Manaweft Sliver, Gemhide Sliver, or Cryptolith Rite out, you need to tutor for one of those bois as soon as possible. Obviously if your meta is a bunch of annoying blue players, you need to examine the boardstate and determine if you can get away with one of your most powerful cards. If you can't, Root Sliver is the biggest middle finger to them all. However, if you're meta has a bunch of removal and you don't think you can keep him around long enough to matter, go grab Crystalline Sliver and put your other middle finger up. Regardless, once you are able to get a mana boi out, it will ramp you up tremendously and allow for much more searching. Next you need to evaluate your board state and determine if we wanna go for the win or do we wanna set up for next turn. For starters, if you have nothing on board and none of your combos cards in hand, it takes a total of 31 mana to get all your pieces out and win. It's 5 for overlord, 3 to search, and we need about 4 searches, so that's 12 mana total for searching, 2 for a mana boi, 2 for hastey boi, 3 for sac boi, another 5 for queenie, and a final 2 to make your token sliver and begin your combo. You always wanna keep that number in mind at the beginning of your turn and modify it to match your board state and hand. To start the turn, a few questions you'll need to ask yourself are: "Do I have enough mana to pull this off right now?", "If I get insert card name here will I be able to use it efficiently, or do I need to get insert other card name here first?" and, "If I fail, can I protect my board for a turn to get the win next turn?" With those questions floating about, you'll wanna go for either haste, Basal Sliver, or go back to step one and go for Crystalline Sliver if you still don't have him. If you want to give haste, we have three hasty bois to choose from: Heart Sliver, Blur Sliver, and Cloudshredder Sliver. The best choice is to go for Cloudshredder Sliver considering he gives haste AND flying to YOUR slivers. Flying is crucial for a kill because we need our opponents to have no way to block our massive army. If you decide to go for Basal Sliver, it gets a little more mathy and conviluded. If you do grab him, you'll need at least one fodder sliver to sac for mana and be able to search again. Then depending on board state yet again, you'll either want a hastey boi or Dregscape Sliver. Then once he's out, it's easy to ramp because you can tap a fodder sliver for mana, sac for two, use that two to bring him back, tap for another mana, and sac for another two all from one fodder boi. Get haste out if you don't have it, but if you already have haste... Well it's time. Our main win con here is Sliver Queen. If you've got infinite mana, you've got infinite slivers. How do we do that? Simple. (Not really) We need the following: a mana producing sliver, a haste sliver, Basal Sliver, and the queen herself. Once we have acquired all the pieces, we can put the puzzle together. Pay two mana, make one sliver token. Not too bad I guess, but wait, that sliver inherits all our other slivers abilities. That token can tap for one mana, since it has haste, and sac itself for two back, netting a total of three mana for one boi. Use two of it to make another and rinse and repeat till you have infinite mana and infinite slivers. Go to combat. Swing and ruin someone's life. Oh no! They played fog! How ever will I win now??? My friend, its time to avenge your army of bois and kill with intent. Search up your best friend Acidic Sliver and use your mana to kill outright! He got countered. Ugh, fine. Go get Dregscape Sliver and get him back. They exited my graveyard. FINE, GET Necrotic Sliver and blow up everything they hold dear in this life. #countered again. Screeching Sliver mill them out. They have a titan. Play Unnataural Selection and take every creature they own with Overlord's second ability.

TL;DR once you have infinite mana by whatever means, you have a load of things you can do with it to kill.

Top Ranked	Achieved #45 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #28 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Primer 4 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	31 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.12
Tokens	Sliver 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	Deck Ideas, magic decks