MTG Salvation

Just play 4x Sliver Hivelord...seriously it is the best sliver printed to date. No tutor necessary.

I think I'd want to use Nkythos, Shrine to Nyx with all the colored mana symbols to be had...something close to:



Battalion is bad, just play good cards.

The mechanic tends to annoy people and cause the entire table to gang up on you regardless that it is very difficult to get every opponent to 10 counters in the first place. Infect doesn't have the chops to play multiplayer in my experience. Outside of building an actual infect deck; Blightsteel Colossus can do work in artifact decks or you could try to build around Inkmoth Nexus and Cranial Plating. I've seen people attempt proliferation and Ichor Rats to no avail amongst other ideas; I would save myself the heartbreak and not attempt to build solely around poison...you will be disappointed.

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Made some updates based on discussion.

I agree that ETB tapped lands are bad for Slivers and I wouldn't play them ever. Forbidden Orchard seems bad if Galerider isn't in play since we aren't using Trample.

The downside of Forbidden Orchard is so so minimal in reality.

The fact you can run all of Prid3's shell (which is very solid) and still likely squeeze in 12x copies of Muscle Sliver is exciting. I would run at least one Harmonic Sliver and I doubt the usefulness of Venom Sliver; you're going for flying shrouded indestructible lifelinkers, ...deathtouch just seems greedy when you could be pumping or adding additional utility.

I enjoy Living Wish in multiplayer lists; pull anything you want...up to and including Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.

Try to get in at least 4x Manaweft Sliver/Gemhide Sliver.

There's a lot of mediocre creatures in here; Firemane Avenger, Spark Trooper, Frontline Medic, Viashino Firstblade, Skyknight Legionnaire, Wojek Halberdiers, and Legion Loyalist as well as a bunch of marginal spells, Arrows of Justice, Homing Lightning, etc. Battalion isn't good.

Where's Boros Reckoner, Figure of Destiny, Truefire Paladin, Brion Stoutarm, and Balefire Liege? Those are the cards I want to play with in Boros; as well as four copies of Legion's Initiative along with Assemble the Legion.

Something like this perhaps:



You could even use Fanatic of Mogis as well, and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx!

These decks seem like a disaster if your meta involves plenty of wraths; walls are not especially evasive or resilient.

This is definitely one of my favorite types of decks; Dark Ritual is usually invaluable because landing that turn one Necrogen Mists/Bottomless Pit/Ensnaring Bridge/ is quite desirable. I always run four Smallpox as well and a few copies of Pox. I'm a huge fan of Noetic Scales and usually run at least two but the card can be somewhat problematic getting to four mana can be difficult at times.

The fan created Waste Not is going to be an extremely interesting addition to the archetype, this card is going to come in the 2015 core set and I can't wait.

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OK - Help me out, Cloudstone Curio - Why is this so good here? I'm not seeing it - BUT, I often don't, as I am still quite new to the game (Only a year and a half or so now..)

To bounce cards such as Sylvan Primordial, Primeval Titan, Thragtusk, Eternal Witness, and Elvish Visionary, etc...cards you should be playing in these types of decks.

The nice aspect of green decks is you're going to be ramping regardless of whether or not Lurking Predators sticks around or not, you're still able to hard cast as well. Genesis Wave, Primeval Bounty, Garruk, Caller of Beasts, etc. If you're using decent ramp and incredibly threatening creatures your critical mass scheme doesn't matter so much.

I would rather this just be a Lurking Predators deck, throw in the usual ramp suspects and Prophet of Kruphix and call it a day.

Zealous Conscripts are cool.

You guys really like Hydra Omnivore; I'm not saying it's a bad card per se, I'm just not a fan of cards that have to be given trample, given unblockable, given protection, to really shine. Also dropping large fats is going to draw attention in general, but this one really turns on the clock.

Regardless, I'd pick Hydra Omnivore over Engulfing Slagwurm and Archetype of Endurance every time.