I still vote that these creatures be changed to "Silverlings": Act like slivers, not slivers.
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I get to watch great leaders, terrible oppressors, and trend setters rise and fall.
Limited, Standard, Modern, everything is a different playing field I feel I can observe, but will not actually touch.
I look forward to the stories I will hear.
And more so to the ones I will watch unfold first hand.
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all new slivers basically obsolete their older versions. especially the flying one, the first strike one, the double strike one, etc...
cool way to design wizard. just increase power level and we'll be fine-.-
Well the old ones were bad as hell, just casual cards.
Only playable slivers are the 2 mana ones, especially muscle and the like that pump each other.
The blue 1 drop is fine in that regards, as slivers dont really have 1 drops.
I totally see reason behind that, its the sliver that wants to be a constructed card, especially with Crystalin sliver it could be a blue/white/green deck (even using the clones to copy your slivers for cheap).
For legacy thats still worse than Merfolk, so its pushed, but still not really good enough.
So in the end, pushing slivers with the powercreep we have anyway is fine.
Non of the cards is crazy, they are still decent but its quite unlikely to produce a deck that can compete.
Lifelink would help more a midrange sliver deck strategy i think, but why lifelink in black? wasnt it a white ability, vampires too much ?
Lifelink is a thing that fits into white and black the same.
In the past it was a white thing, now we get more and more lifelink in black, even more than in white.
Flavourwise it makes more sence for black anyway, as you deal damage for life, white should prevent damage, not hit your opponent and gain something from that (the lifegain aspect is the white part, black however, has the traditional drain life, dealing damage and gain life equal to the damage, thats totally lifelink, its much more black than anything else, especially as black is the color that also uses life as a ressource, so it makes even MORE sence to put lifelink on a fair deal of black cards to support the theme).
Take your monoblack deck, then set aside 14 swamps. Add 4 Creeping Tar Pits, 4 Darkslick Shores, 4 Drowned Catacombs, and 2 Jwar isle Refuge and add 4 Jace, the Mindsculptors. Your monoblack deck is instantly better. Better yet, drop those refuges, throw in some islands and some mana leaks, and lo and behold, you're now playing a real deck. Congratulations. Welcome to the world of competitive M:TG.
MaRo explained that there would be many slivers in some colors, and one or two good one in others. This way there is an opportunity cost to splashing for the best slivers, esp in limited. Slivers weren't going to be tier 1 anyway, so I have no problem with making them balanced in limited.
Is that the first time a Sliver has been directly obsoleted?
If so, why did they do it with a Sliver that was already super powerful? Players give Winged Sliver a 4.52 rating - making it one of the best creatures in the game. My casual group banned the card because it makes Sliver decks just that much more unfun to play against. Now they knocked the mana cost in half, just cuz? Weird.
Wow, seriously? your playgroup banned a SLIVER? do you have a "nobody can attack until turn 10" rule too? Casual or not, if your decks are destroyed just because someone drops a winged sliver you need to rethink your deckbuilding.
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I get to watch great leaders, terrible oppressors, and trend setters rise and fall.
Limited, Standard, Modern, everything is a different playing field I feel I can observe, but will not actually touch.
I look forward to the stories I will hear.
And more so to the ones I will watch unfold first hand.
Isn't the unknown exciting?
Well the old ones were bad as hell, just casual cards.
Only playable slivers are the 2 mana ones, especially muscle and the like that pump each other.
The blue 1 drop is fine in that regards, as slivers dont really have 1 drops.
I totally see reason behind that, its the sliver that wants to be a constructed card, especially with Crystalin sliver it could be a blue/white/green deck (even using the clones to copy your slivers for cheap).
For legacy thats still worse than Merfolk, so its pushed, but still not really good enough.
So in the end, pushing slivers with the powercreep we have anyway is fine.
Non of the cards is crazy, they are still decent but its quite unlikely to produce a deck that can compete.
Lifelink is a thing that fits into white and black the same.
In the past it was a white thing, now we get more and more lifelink in black, even more than in white.
Flavourwise it makes more sence for black anyway, as you deal damage for life, white should prevent damage, not hit your opponent and gain something from that (the lifegain aspect is the white part, black however, has the traditional drain life, dealing damage and gain life equal to the damage, thats totally lifelink, its much more black than anything else, especially as black is the color that also uses life as a ressource, so it makes even MORE sence to put lifelink on a fair deal of black cards to support the theme).
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Wow, seriously? your playgroup banned a SLIVER? do you have a "nobody can attack until turn 10" rule too? Casual or not, if your decks are destroyed just because someone drops a winged sliver you need to rethink your deckbuilding.