Sliver Shivers

Commander / EDH Five Color Hive Mind Sliver Tribal

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Slivers (43)

• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Battering Sliver
• 1x Battle Sliver
• 1x Blur Sliver
• 1x Bonescythe Sliver
• 1x Bonesplitter Sliver
• 1x Brood Sliver
• 1x Constricting Sliver
• 1x Crypt Sliver
• 1x Crystalline Sliver
• 1x Darkheart Sliver
• 1x Essence Sliver
• 1x Frenzy Sliver
• 1x Fungus Sliver
• 1x Galerider Sliver
• 1x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Harmonic Sliver
• 1x Magma Sliver
• 1x Manaweft Sliver
• 1x Megantic Sliver
• 1x Might Sliver
• 1x Muscle Sliver
• 1x Necrotic Sliver
• 1x Plated Sliver
• 1x Predatory Sliver
• 1x Pulmonic Sliver
• 1x Quick Sliver
• 1x Root Sliver
• 1x Sentinel Sliver
• 1x Shifting Sliver
• 1x Sidewinder Sliver
• 1x Sinew Sliver
• 1x Sliver Hivelord
• 1x Sliver Legion
• 1x Sliver Queen
• 1x Spined Sliver
• 1x Spinneret Sliver
• 1x Striking Sliver
• 1x Syphon Sliver
• 1x Telekinetic Sliver
• 1x Toxin Sliver
• 1x Virulent Sliver
• 1x Ward Sliver

Land 2 Color (18)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Land 3 Color (10)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Seaside Citadel

Artifacts and Enchantments (4)

• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Mana Echoes
• 1x Spirit of Resistance

Commander (1)

Land 5 Color (15)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Sliver Hive
• 1x Thran Quarry
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Vivid Meadow

Instants and Sorceries (9)

• 1x Aphetto Dredging
• 1x Conflux
• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Hive Stirrings
• 1x Immortal Servitude
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Tribal Unity

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Since the release of slivers, I was in love with the hive minded creatures. Although I don't like the M14/M15 slivers as much as the old ones, it's still my favorite tribal theme. I built a few decks based on the Sliver theme. I have three decks ready: A Commander / EDH deck (Sliver Shivers) and a set for Two-headed Giant (Sliver Strong Side and Sliver Stubborn Side). The last two decks can also be used in single play.

Sliver Shivers

This deck is ment for Commander / EDH. I know I could add a lot of support cards like removal, more defensive cards and stuff like that, but as I really want to stay within the theme "tribal sliver", I won't. I know that gives the deck a few flaws, but that's fully intended.

I also built in an extra challenge for this deck; no basic land has been used. Because it's a 5 color deck, and I want to get to 5 colors as soon as possible (so I can play Sliver Overlord as soon as possible) I only use multicolor lands. Therefor each card, including land, is unique.

Besides slivers already are a nice combo (all creatures enforces each other), there are two notable combos:

1. Mana Echoes and Sliver Queen together will create an infinite loop of Sliver Tokens.
2. Amoeboid Changeling and Sliver Overlord can take over creatures from opponents permanently.
3. When you can play Conflux, fetch Enlightened Tutor, one of the green mana slivers (Gemhide Sliver or Manaweft Sliver), Mana Echoes, Sliver Queen and a useful black or blue card. After that, combo 1 can be played, and with the Enlightened Tutor you can get Coat of Arms for a finishing blow.

Ruling notes

Sometimes when I play this deck, I get questions (from myself or an opponent). I've listed a few;

• Ward Sliver - Protection from a color keeps difficult. A nice explanation can be found at Protection from color, to what extend?.
• Virulent Sliver - In Commander, it requires 10 poison counters to be defeated. See also: How does infect work in EDH?.
• Toxin Sliver + Striking Sliver - When slivers have death touch and first strike, they'll survive combat damage: First strike + death touch.

Sliver cards that didn't made the selection

I got at least one copy of each sliver card for collecting purposes. I use this as a side deck, but some won't ever make it. Here's a short list:

• Plague Sliver; Antisliver; I don't like to pain myself.
• Dormant Sliver; Antisliver; makes it impossible for Slivers to attack.
• Sliver Construct, Venser's Sliver, Metallic Sliver; The sliver constructs don't add abilities. I have slivers with the same CMC that are more powerful.
• Hivestone; I only use sliver creatures, so why make all creatures sliver anyways?
• Sliversmith; it's a very expensive token generator. Best to just play slivers instead.
• Shadow Sliver; When using Shadow, I can't defend myself anymore as well.
• Armor Sliver, Barbed Sliver, Spectral Sliver; Powerups that are temporal and require mana are very expensive.
• Acidic Sliver, Basal Sliver, Cautery Sliver, Firewake Sliver, Mindlash Sliver, Mindwhip Sliver, Mnemonic Sliver, Victual Sliver; I'm not a big fan of sacrificing slivers. They need to increase in numbers, not decrease.
• Blade Sliver, Steelform Sliver, Watcher Sliver; I have added a few cards with power/defense powerups, but there are just too many ;-)
• Fury Sliver, Groundshaker Sliver, Heart Sliver, Horned Sliver, Reflex Sliver, Spitting Sliver, Synchronous Sliver, Talon Sliver, Winged Sliver; Their bonuses are already added to the deck by other slivers.
• Clot Sliver, Poultice Sliver, Sedge Sliver; Crypt Sliver is the cheapest regenerate sliver, so I keep that one in the deck.

Others that just didn't made it, because, well 100 cards, a couple of lands, a couple of support and choices had to be made;

Belligerent Sliver, Dementia Sliver, Diffusion Sliver, Frenetic Sliver, Ghostflame Sliver, Hibernation Sliver, Homing Sliver, Hunter Sliver, Leeching Sliver, Lymph Sliver, Mesmeric Sliver, Mistform Sliver, Opaline Sliver, Psionic Sliver, Quilled Sliver, Screeching Sliver, Synapse Sliver, Thorncaster Sliver, Two-Headed Sliver, Venom Sliver

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.46
Tokens	Sliver 1/1 C
Folders	Research