Primal Brood (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Primal Brood

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Sliver

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Spawn Points (40)

Underlings (31)

The Calling (1)

1x Primal Surge

The Pale Horse (1)

1x All is Dust

Commander (1)

Rocks (10)

Relics (8)

Scrolls (8)

Maybeboard

Other (7)

My first multicolor deck, of course, had to be an unruly Sliver hive of horrors.

As far as form and function goes, this deviously janky deck is built around Primal Surge, but is capable of comboing out in a wildly effective manner as well:

Call forth all Slivers and worldly possessions using Primal Surge.
Kick off one of the many combos that can roll into infinity.
Beholden your opponent(s) to All Is Dust, thereby establishing a board state where you are in control.

Against my better judgement, I do indeed have a Sorcery installed that can brick it, but the probability is so low, it ought to be negligible. Typically, a Primal Surge deck can handle up to four nonpermanent installs, at least in this format. So while two total nonpermanent installs adds brick risk, I feel it may be worth it, especially since we're talking about All Is Dust and one of our Slivers is Ghostflame Sliver.

Overlording

: Search your library for a Sliver card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
: Gain control of target Sliver.

Generates 1/1 Sliver tokens

(Sliver Queen)
(via) Combat Damage (Brood Sliver, All Slivers when Brood Sliver is out)

Slivers we control have...

Haste (Blur Sliver)
Flying ( Galerider Sliver )
Lifelink (Syphon Sliver)
First Strike ( Striking Sliver )
Double Strike (Bonescythe Sliver)
Deathtouch (Venom Sliver)
Vigilance (Sentinel Sliver)
Indestructible (Sliver Hivelord)
: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. (Manaweft Sliver)

All Slivers have...

Haste (Heart Sliver)
Flying (Winged Sliver)
Flying; if this creature were to be put into a graveyard, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead. (Pulmonic Sliver)
Lifelink ( Essence Sliver )
Trample ( Horned Sliver )
Flash (Quick Sliver)
Shroud (Crystalline Sliver)
Colorless (Ghostflame Sliver)
Poisionous 1 ( Virulent Sliver )
Can't be countered. ( Root Sliver )
Can't be blocked except by other Slivers. (Shifting Sliver)
+1/+1 for each Sliver in play. (Sliver Legion)
+1/+1 so long as we control a Swamp; : Regenerate this creature. (Sedge Sliver)
Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool. (Basal Sliver)
Slivercycling ( Homing Sliver )
Pay 2 Life: Return this permanent to its owner's hand. ( Hibernation Sliver )
: Regenerate this permanent. ( Clot Sliver )
, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target permanent. ( Necrotic Sliver )
: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. (Gemhide Sliver)

Noteworthy Combos

The Calling
- Primal Surge
  (or)
- Paradox Engine (+)
- Heart Sliver (+)
- Sliver Overlord (+)
- Training Grounds (+)
- Manaweft Sliver or Gemhide Sliver
Turn target into Sliver, assume control of target.
- Unnatural Selection or Amoeboid Changeling (+)
- Sliver Overlord
Filter top three, draw
- Sensei's Divining Top or Mirri's Guile (+)
- Scroll Rack
Infinite Combat Phases
- Aggravated Assault (+)
- Manaweft Sliver or Gemhide Sliver
- 5 Slivers to repeatedly tap for mana
Infinite Slivers
- Basal Sliver (+)
- Sliver Queen (+)
- Training Grounds
  (or)
- Mana Echoes (+)
- Sliver Queen
Infinite Mana
- Mana Echoes (+)
- Sliver Queen
Infinite Mana
- Basal Sliver (+)
- Sliver Queen (+)
- Training Grounds
Infinite Mana
- Basal Sliver (+)
- Sliver Queen (+)
- Training Grounds (+)
- Gaea's Cradle
  (or)
- Mana Echoes (+)
- Sliver Queen (+)
- Gaea's Cradle
Infinite Mana
- Basal Sliver (+)
- Sliver Queen (+)
- Training Grounds (+)
- Manaweft Sliver or Gemhide Sliver
  (or)
- Mana Echoes (+)
- Sliver Queen (+)
- Manaweft Sliver or Gemhide Sliver
Infinite Exile
- Basal Sliver (+)
- Sliver Queen (+)
- Training Grounds (+)
- Manaweft Sliver or Gemhide Sliver (+)
- Legacy Weapon
  (or)
- Mana Echoes (+)
- Sliver Queen (+)
- Manaweft Sliver or Gemhide Sliver (+)
- Legacy Weapon
Infinite Destruction
- Basal Sliver (+)
- Sliver Queen (+)
- Training Grounds (+)
- Necrotic Sliver
  (or)
- Mana Echoes (+)
- Sliver Queen (+)
- Necrotic Sliver

Suggestions

Updates Add

07.17.17 - Swaps — July 17, 2017

Edit

Not too long ago I added the following to aid with colorfixing and existing in-deck synergy. I want to take a moment and note how I feel about these adds, and what they contribute to:

**Ring of Three Wishes**: **Library tutor**, _used as a means of tutoring up answers and Primal Surge, the primary winning condition in this deck._
**Heartstone**: **Cost reducer**, _particularly beneficial to Sliver Queen's 1/1 colorless Sliver token generation. Infinite mana generation is also possible if Mana Echoes is on the battlefield._
**Doubling Cube**: **Mana doubler**, _especially useful to pay the casting cost of Primal Surge the turn after our commander, Sliver Overlord, has slithered out of the command zone._
**Aura Shards**: **Spot removal**, _tribal-triggered and specific to artifacts and enchantments._
**Door of Destinies**: **Anthem effect**, _a less threatening Coat of Arms that is also a bit more clunky._
**All is Dust**: **Colored permanent wrath**, _possessing the ability to place board advantage in our hands, so long as Ghostflame Sliver is on the battlefield before it hits._
**Select Signet cards**: **Colorfixing**, _all of which added to help ensure we get our five colors when we need them._

I am thinking about adding the following as well:

**Fist of Suns**: **Cost distortion**, _making it possible for me to play Primal Surge for my commander's CMC._
**Crystal Quarry**: **Colorfixing**, _catering extremely well to Fist of Suns and the possibility of playing Primal Surge at the same cost of our commander, Sliver Overlord._
**Cascading Cataracts**: **Colorfixing similar to Crystal Quarry**, _but Indestructible and can be any combination from our five colors of mana._
**Elixir of Immortality**: **Recurring lifegain**, _playing very well into the Primal Surge strategy by also giving us a way to return our graveyard to our library._
**Tomb of the Spirit Dragon**: **Lifegain land**, _adding a lifegain element to any action we take into infinity. We can make good use of the second tap ability with either Ghostflame Sliver and/or Sliver Queen's 1/1 colorless Sliver token generation._
**Legacy Weapon**: **Spot Exile**, _bringing a different type of hurt to our friendly neighborhood good-doers. Normally costing , we can cheat this out via our primary winning condition, Primal Surge. Alternatively, we can distort its casting cost to match its use cost through Fist of Suns._

For the time being, the swaps are going to work out like this. I am also going to swapping out some Slivers for the sake of experimentation:

Door of Destinies swapped out for Crystal Quarry
Oblivion Stone swapped out for Fist of Suns
Sinew Sliver swapped out for Cascading Cataracts
Dormant Sliver swapped out for Horned Sliver
Bonesplitter Sliver swapped out for Root Sliver
Crypt Sliver swapped out for Clot Sliver
Harmonic Sliver swapped out for Legacy Weapon
Heartstone swapped out for Aggravated Assault
Taurean Mauler swapped out for Pulmonic Sliver

My manabase is a little wonky at the current moment. The frustrating part is that the actual manabase is distributed rather evenly across all five colors -- it is the bias of my card-cost for a couple of colors, namely red and green, that is giving me a headache. So I am weighing out whether or not to apply a similar bias to my manabase just as well. Any suggestions to get things a bit more "lined up" would be immensely appreciated!

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Sliver 1/1 C
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