Bishoprage,

I'm going to be honest with you, I haven't broken out my deck in months. Mostly because I didn't have the desire to swap out my Mana Crypt. But today I decided to finally do it - and I swapped out the cards to make the deck match the decklist. I'm almost considering setting up a Break in Case of Unban! shadowbox or display frame in my office.

Those bans made me unhappy and impacted my vision for some of my decks. I am strongly resisting the urge to just go into a full blown rant about just how deeply out of touch the rules committee was with the community they supposedly represented despite never being voted in or even interacting with said community. So you only get a semi-rant. LOL. Anyways, I plan on taking my Slivers to my next FNM this upcoming Friday. I'll do my best to try and get Thrumming Hivepool into play as often as I can and i'll let you know my thoughts.

Also free Paradox Engine! Just kidding I know that card is degeneracy of the highest order - but I still love it. It's my favorite card after Sliver Queen. What's yours?

Bishoprage, just realized I didn't tag you in my previous post. So you're tagged now.

Bishoprage and Mortlocke,

So the play testing of Thrumming Hivepool has actually been pretty good. Haste is such a powerful effect in a Sliver deck, and being able to access mana through your Gemhide Sliver etc turn it comes out is massive. The fact it can also simply be free and also give you 2 little Slivers in your turn is nice. Double strike for free is also nice as a deterrent on attacking me.

I have also recently changed my mass recursion in my deck. I am still running Yawgmoth's Will but have also now included Eerie Ultimatum. In a commander game it can win you the game. Especially when you will likely be the target of many a removal spell and board wipe.

hope you are both well, and look forward to seeing your deck Bishoprage