Fallow your (overpriced) dreams! +1

do you own every card in this deck?

I swear, you and I are twins in terms of our experiences with magic. Back in high school I started playing magic around the onslaught block (or shortly before it). I had friends who bought boxes and sold the packs at school, and my mom was awesome enough to give me a couple extra bucks to help pay for my new addic-er...habit lol. My second deck was a crappy monoblue wizards deck...Prodigal Sorcerer + Curiosity + Mind Over Matter was my wincon. BUT when I faced slivers for the first time during Legion...my mind was completely blown. I knew I had to play them. During college I collected them through various trades. I'm -still- kicking myself for not trading for a foil Sliver Legion. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20 huh? I too made an incredibly overpriced sliver deck...but what's weird is just how similar...and different our choices are.

+1 on principle. Long live the hive and all that. I'm still analyzing your deck, because you put far more ramp in your lands than I did. I rely more heavily on control, ramp and rocks. My only suggestions for a replacement would be swapping out Farseek for Nature's Lore. I'd prefer to have that one mana free to perhaps cast something else on that turn. But that's just my opinion. Also, why don't you have Gaea's Cradle not in here? It'd be perfect lol. By the way, i'm so jelly of your DCI promo Crucible of Worlds. Are you a judge? Or did you actually shell out the cash to buy that bad boy?

"Also, why don't you have Gaea's Cradle not in here?"

Derp. I meant to say why don't you include Gaea's Cradle? It's a great card. Yes I run it too, but it's still just an amazing card.

Ornge - I do own every card here, including the specific versions listed. I try to keep this deck up to date with what I physically own to keep track of it. This deck is a passion project, hence why it's really expensive

LVL_666 - Thanks for the upvote! I took a lot of inspiration from your deck, and ended up making mine more ramp than control just based mostly on preferred play style. I currently run both Nature's Lore and Farseek. As for Gaea's Cradle it was more about the money to get one just yet. I would love one eventually, but went other routes first. I paid for the crucible, but got it for a good deal from a local friend. I love the look of old vs new cards so if I was going to run one, I really wanted it to be the promo

Hi Seventy7INa45. I would first like to say that this is an amazing deck and I appreciate anyone that has made a Sliver deck. Nothing more satisfying than watching some say they are playing slivers to a sliver hater or any non-sliver players as their reactions are so funny. I think you should one time go with you crueller version and play somewhere more competitive just to see if you could hold up. But I like fun so I can see why you changed it up to be less intimidating. Though it is still a bit intimidating because slivers always are.

I'm a little unsure about a some of your slivers. I'm a little confused at why you put some in that share the same as other slivers but the abilities don't stack up and get better the more instances of the the abilities there are. For example, Galerider Sliver and Winged Sliver both have flying but flying doesn't stack. I can understand that your deck hinges on a few combos that frankly are OP so you may not need to think about overlapping abilities but for me it seem a little silly to do that.

Don't get me wrong, I have a sliver deck and I have gone through the pain and frustration of building it over and over again and only just making it a viable deck. Like I don't know anything about your play style with this deck or how much experience you have compared to me. I know you tested your deck from your updates and revisions. You said it was a good deck so I have no reason not to believe that it isn't perfect. I just want to know the logic behind those choice you made for your deck. Maybe I am missing out on a vital strategy that I could utilise or maybe it is just a subtle choice you that I don't understand.

Also, feel free to check out my sliver deck and comment on it. Upvote it if you think it is good enough. I want to know what you think is right or what you think is wrong. Ask me if you are unsure of some choice I have made.

Deck:

Kurt's Hive For Colourful Sliver (Casual EDH)

Commander / EDH* ThatGuy_OhWhatsHisName

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ThatGuy_OhWhatsHisName

Thanks for the upvote and comment. The deck was a lot of fun before I de-tuned it a bit, but it's not fun if you keep winning all the time. Now, I have a chance to win every game, but its equal to other people I play with, so it's all good :)

I think I can try to explain some of the sliver choices on why they have overlapping abilities. In my play group, there is a lot of removal and board wipes. Additionally, because of the "sliver effect" I am usually a target. I have some recursion in Patriarch's Bidding and Yawgmoth's Will but I would like to have even more. If slivers with certain abilities, either an evasion or especially haste is destroyed, I would like to have another option to search for with Sliver Overlord than to try and get the 2 recursion cards I mentioned. In a non-commander format, where I could have multiple copies of cards, I definitely wouldn't run redundant slivers, but with only 1 of each, I like having backups :)

Seventy7INa45

Oh, I see. That makes a lot of sense now you have explained it. That is a simple but clever strategy to use. Thanks for taking the time to explain it and sorry I criticise your deck. I guess I was wrong. My play group is definitely orientated towards the more casual players of Magic so I actually haven't come across many boardwipes. The ones I have come across are either used as a way to slow me down because they are losing or the spell is too expensive manawise that I have a way to over coming it's effect by the time they cast it. Haha guess there is a definite difference between our play styles and play group.

I wish you all the best.