There are only slivers.
The only way you can protect yourself is to tutor out the right sliver at the right time.
The only way you can play politics is to choose who dies, and when.
The only way you can win is to combo into huge numbers of slivers. To make your hive boil over with slivers, until they subsume the battlefield and eat your podmates alive when they strike. To teach them what it means to evolve, and what's more, to teach them what it means to be that which did not evolve.
There are only slivers.
Welcome to Sliver Combolord.
INFINITE COMBOS
- Sliver Queen + Mana Echoes
- Sliver Queen + Heartstone + Ashnod's Altar
- Sliver Queen + Heartstone +
Basal Sliver
- Sliver Queen + Training Grounds + Ashnod's Altar
- Sliver Queen + Training Grounds +
Basal Sliver
- Sliver Queen + Heart Sliver +
Gemhide Sliver
/
Manaweft Sliver
+ Ashnod's Altar
- Sliver Queen + Heart Sliver +
Gemhide Sliver
/
Manaweft Sliver
+
Basal Sliver
>>> ENTIRELY TUTORABLE <<<
(QUICK NOTE: For these reasons, Sliver Queen can make a good alternate commander if your local meta disapproves of Overlord, or if you're simply bored of tutoring everything you need.)
SLIVER OVERLORD TUTORING PRIORITY
Crystalline Sliver
: The first piece. Shroud is all-important.
Gemhide Sliver
,
Manaweft Sliver
: Mana-fixing.
Heart Sliver: Haste is extremely important for both mana generation and combo'ing off.
Sliver Hivelord
,
Hibernation Sliver
, possibly
Ward Sliver
: Protection from boardwipes and other removal spells.
Sliver Queen: The beginning of the end. Hopefully you have the ability to generate a ton of slivers at this point.
Thorncaster Sliver
// Acidic Sliver, and
Basal Sliver
: Wincons. Tutor out Basal and one of either Thorncaster or Acidic, then go infinite for the win.
WILD PAIR COMBINED P/T SCORES
Wild Pair is a ridiculous spell in this deck. For easy reference, here are the creatures with identical P+T that can tutor each other out with Wild Pair:
P+T of 2: Gemhide Sliver, Harmonic Sliver, Heart Sliver, Leeching Sliver, Manaweft Sliver, Quick Sliver, Venom Sliver, Virulent Sliver, Winged Sliver
P+T of 4: Acidic Sliver, Basal Sliver, Crystalline Sliver, Ghostflame Sliver, Hibernation Sliver, Homing Sliver, Necrotic Sliver, Sentinel Sliver, Shifting Sliver, Syphon Sliver, Thorncaster Sliver, Ward Sliver
P+T of 6: Pulmonic Sliver, Constricting Sliver
P+T of 14: Silver Legion, Sliver Queen
No other creatures within this deck can tutor each other out with Wild Pair.
Note that casting
Sliver Overlord
from the command zone will NOT trigger Wild Pair. If the Overlord gets bounced to your hand and you cast it with Wild Pair active, it can of course tutor out Sliver Legion or Sliver Queen for free.
For reference, if you somehow find yourself able to cast a creature from another deck: Prophet of Kruphix has a P+T of 5 and Sliver Hivelord has a P+T of 10.
OTHER NOTES
Constricting Sliver
,
Harmonic Sliver
, Necrotic Sliver: Why stock removal spells when every sliver is another removal spell? Hell, if you've got all three of these guys out, every sliver is three removal spells in one!
Hibernation Sliver
: Dodge boardwipes by bouncing important slivers (eg. the ones in the Tutoring Priority list) back to your hand!
Skullclamp: Early-game card draw! One of the reasons (along with Wild Pair) there aren't P/T-boosting slivers in the deck.
All Is Dust: Wonderful boardwipe when you've got
Ghostflame Sliver
out...
Slave of Bolas
: Currently a flex slot. Need a one-of that can unilaterally deal with almost any creature, and lack extra StPs.
