I've tested it against a couple or UR (very hard matchup, even with Diffusion Sliver), Gruul, affinity, a jund, a kind of defender deck... some of thouse where not that hard, and most of the rounds where pretty tied, going to topdecks and who draws the last card to win, well, wins, for example: opponent needs a burn to get rid my 2-3 life, or i would harass him/her, things like that. I had a great time playing it.
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Well, sometimes, when the match it's getting hard, with huge creatures against you, is that you can't get rid of them, such with a Path to exile, or even a Vapor Snag, because of the lack of colored mana for no-creature spells. Another very important thing, is that if they put a Blood Moon on the battlefield, if you don't control an Aether Vial, game it's over.
So that is why I was thinking on sideboard, and so far I found 3 Sliver cards that can go very well, let's see them:
Harmonic Sliver - Great card to destroy thouse enchantments like Blood Moon (must have a Vial or Gemhide Sliver or Manaweft Sliver) Necrotic Sliver - A great card too for Blood Moon if you have it on battlefield. Also, will be a good pick against Pyromancer Ascension, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, and cards that can be very awful against slivers. Ghostflame Sliver - Affinity it's a very hard match, if you can put this into play, you do a lot of things against it, because Etched Champion could be blocked, and even destroyed with one of both cards from above.
I added 3 of each Slivers mentionen above. What you think of it? What else I could add to sideboard?
I honestly wouldn't have thought about adding Ghostflame Sliver in a million years to improve the affinity matchup since I love Hurkyl's Recall so much. Interesting. I like Necrotic Sliver enough that he could even warrant a MB slot.
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I honestly wouldn't have thought about adding Ghostflame Sliver in a million years to improve the affinity matchup since I love Hurkyl's Recall so much. Interesting. I like Necrotic Sliver enough that he could even warrant a MB slot.
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Have you thought about branching your mana base out a bit in order to support some Sedge Slivers? I have found that card to be quite excellent allowing for almost infinite chump blocking in some circumstance (Block, tap for B and regenerate) as well as almost all (except Path to Exile) removal blanking on your army. It has really become one of the most powerful cards in the deck. Thoughts?
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I plan on updating the original post in the very near future and making this a full fledged primer! I am also a couple of weeks away from entirely foiling out my sliver deck so stay tuned and I'll be posting some pimp pictures as they arise (:
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Mmmm, I'm thinking to put a couple of Kira's in the sideboard, that will also help a lot against UWR control, burn... with all that removal and burn to all my Slivers. I played one now agains UWR control, and it was an easy 2-0 for it.
Also, I changed the list from above with 2 Gemhide and 2 Manaweft, so two slots available, and thought of Bonesplitter Sliver and Virulent Sliver, so now there are 4 mana generator instead of 6, giving place to a more aggresive creatures.
I want to like Chord of Calling in this deck, but it's just so dang expensive! I'm not sure... I want to like it though. Maybe I'll do some testing with it and a toolbox list to see what I come up with. You can't run Ancient Ziggurat in a decklist with that bad boy though, that's for sure!
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The idea is keep the curve low and focus on aggression.
10 Pump slivers with the two Sedge Slivers. (13 if you count Phantasmal Image and Mirror Entity)
Image is too good not to be played and got better with the new Diffusion Sliver. Against twin, you vial in
the image when they try to go off and copy their guy, then tap it with twin on stack. Or get yourself an eldrazi against TRON.
Leeching Sliver should be perfect in this deck and their ability stacks Attacking with 4 slivers including 2 Leeching ones, makes
opponent loose 8 life before damage is even dealt. I would like to add more Sedge Slivers, but then i'd have to add more swamps as well,
and that would shake up the mana base to much in my mind. Sideboard is yet to be decided. Needs more testing.
Edit: after some games, with just 2 Urborgs, I didn't like it much, Leeching is a good card thought, but sedge is not. Gonna go for another thing, like Venom Sliver again
Edit: after some games, with just 2 Urborgs, I didn't like it much, Leeching is a good card thought, but sedge is not. Gonna go for another thing, like Venom Sliver again
You do need to tweak your mana base to include shocks if you want to run Sedge sliver. You can't go pure rainbow manabase. Reminder though - even if you don't have a swamp in play, all slivers still gain B: Regenerate.
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Hey guys!
Long time reader, first time posting.
I've always loved slivers and always tried to put together a competitive slivers deck, and I guess that now we have the tools for it
So this is my attempt:
Lands 20
4x Sliver Hive
4x Cavern of Souls
4x Ancient Ziggurat
4x Reflecting Pool
4x Mutavault
It may look simple, and I'm probably losing a lot of great slivers in this build but I'm pretty sure that this can work.
Maybe I should change a few things in my mana base to put some shocklands and fetch lands instead of using all the rainbow lands, so I can put some specific non-sliver hatecards in my sideboard(btw I don't have one yet)
PS: I'm sorry but I don't know yet how to use the tools to post the decklist as you guys do :/
I tested Phantasmal Image and with all the targeting spells in this format ended up deciding it just wasn't worth it. Have you had an opportunity to test him out yet or is this just thought process?
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I couldn't playtest in my LGS yet, but I did a lot of tests against other decks that I have(affinity, merfolks, death and taxes, 8rack, monoblack infect), and it went pretty well...actually better than expected.
As I've learned from playing with merfolks for a while, even being fragile, Image usually is the best creature in the field. Much like a glass cannon I know, but I really love Phantasmal Image.
The thing is that in Slivers, the best creature we have to be copied is Sinew, predatory and maybe diffusion, and most of time I find myself stuck with him in my hand and waiting for one them to come.
So I've tried put Hive Stirrings in it's place and I guess that I will not turn back.
Stirrings performed so good in my tests...those colorless slivers much needed in order to block Etched Champion, two extra slivers to tap for mana, chumpblock or even start the beatdown
We need to fill the field with our creatures and do it fast, and those tokens help with it, if only it was an instant...
Btw, I'm really liking this list and will gonna try it on a small champ this week in my LGS, after that I'll post the results here.
Speaking of "if only it was an instant", has anyone ever considered Leyline of Anticipation or Alchemist's Refuge in the deck? If there's one thing that'll make me tremble in fear it's instant speed slivers.
I posted up my take on what an aggro sliver deck should look like here: <div class="deck-list" data-stub="chrome-slivers-aggro"> </div>
The first thing you'll notice (other than it being 5 colours) is that I don't use manaweft slivers, this is mostly be because all of my slivers are 1 or 2 drops, and my only 3 drops is adaptive automaton. I have tons of evasion slivers so i can keep swinging in every turn, trading off a sliver (mostly lords gets blocked) is awful since it means a decrease in power for all of my slivers.
I want to find a way to use sedge sliver because its amazing, but playing 5 colors makes it extremely hard to get swamps in there. i might just include one of each black shock land but i really have no idea whats the best move.
I still need to replace my ancient zigs for cavern of souls
I play-tested this deck against infect and birthing pod so far, gave birthing pod a run for its money and infect is evidently a very bad match-up for me.
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What kind of multi-colored sliver deck would be ok running a mono-white land?
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4 Ancient Ziggurat
4 Cavern of Souls
3 City of Brass
2 Mutavault
3 Reflecting Pool
4 Sliver Hive
Artifacts:
4 Aether Vial
Creatures:
1 Blur Sliver
2 Bonescythe Sliver
3 Diffusion Sliver
1 Firewake Sliver
2 Galerider Sliver
3 Gemhide Sliver
3 Manaweft Sliver
4 Predatory Sliver
1 Sidewinder Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
1 Sliver Hivelord
1 Sliver Legion
2 Spined Sliver
2 Striking Sliver
2 Syphon Sliver
1 Two-Headed Sliver
2 Venom Sliver
1 Watcher Sliver
The list looks fun! What have you tested it against thus far?
Well of course it does, but it means that you're having to wait until either:
1. You draw multiples
2. You have it destroyed over a different land.
I don't see any multicolor sliver deck wanting to run multiples of a mono-white land in multiples for that reason. Just run fetches.
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So that is why I was thinking on sideboard, and so far I found 3 Sliver cards that can go very well, let's see them:
Harmonic Sliver - Great card to destroy thouse enchantments like Blood Moon (must have a Vial or Gemhide Sliver or Manaweft Sliver)
Necrotic Sliver - A great card too for Blood Moon if you have it on battlefield. Also, will be a good pick against Pyromancer Ascension, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, and cards that can be very awful against slivers.
Ghostflame Sliver - Affinity it's a very hard match, if you can put this into play, you do a lot of things against it, because Etched Champion could be blocked, and even destroyed with one of both cards from above.
I added 3 of each Slivers mentionen above. What you think of it? What else I could add to sideboard?
Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
So the deck for the moment looks like this:
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Sliver Hive
3 Reflecting Pool
3 Ancient Ziggurat
2 City of Brass
2 Mutavault
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Artifacts:
4 Aether Vial
Creatures:
4 Predatory Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
2 Sedge Sliver
2 Gemhide Sliver
2 Manaweft Sliver
1 Sliver Legion
3 Diffusion Sliver
3 Leeching Sliver
2 Galerider Sliver
2 Spined Sliver
2 Striking Sliver
2 Syphon Sliver
1 Bonescythe Sliver
1 Blur Sliver
1 Firewake Sliver
1 Sidewinder Sliver
1 Two-Headed Sliver
1 Bonesplitter Sliver
3 Necrotic Sliver
3 Ghostflame Sliver
3 Harmonic Sliver
2 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
I plan on updating the original post in the very near future and making this a full fledged primer! I am also a couple of weeks away from entirely foiling out my sliver deck so stay tuned and I'll be posting some pimp pictures as they arise (:
Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
Also, I changed the list from above with 2 Gemhide and 2 Manaweft, so two slots available, and thought of Bonesplitter Sliver and Virulent Sliver, so now there are 4 mana generator instead of 6, giving place to a more aggresive creatures.
Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
2 Ancient Ziggurat
3 Cavern of Souls
4 City of Brass
3 Mutavault
2 Reflecting Pool
4 Sliver Hive
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Aether Vial
Creatures:
1 Two-Headed Sliver
3 Diffusion Sliver
1 Mirror Entity
4 Galerider Sliver
2 Sedge Sliver
4 Leeching Sliver
4 Predatory Sliver
4 Sidewinder Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
1 Bonescythe Sliver
2 Phantasmal Image
2 Firewake Sliver
2 Striking Sliver
2 Perilous Research
The idea is keep the curve low and focus on aggression.
10 Pump slivers with the two Sedge Slivers. (13 if you count Phantasmal Image and Mirror Entity)
Image is too good not to be played and got better with the new Diffusion Sliver. Against twin, you vial in
the image when they try to go off and copy their guy, then tap it with twin on stack. Or get yourself an eldrazi against TRON.
Leeching Sliver should be perfect in this deck and their ability stacks Attacking with 4 slivers including 2 Leeching ones, makes
opponent loose 8 life before damage is even dealt. I would like to add more Sedge Slivers, but then i'd have to add more swamps as well,
and that would shake up the mana base to much in my mind. Sideboard is yet to be decided. Needs more testing.
Gonna test the new slivers!
Edit: after some games, with just 2 Urborgs, I didn't like it much, Leeching is a good card thought, but sedge is not. Gonna go for another thing, like Venom Sliver again
You do need to tweak your mana base to include shocks if you want to run Sedge sliver. You can't go pure rainbow manabase. Reminder though - even if you don't have a swamp in play, all slivers still gain B: Regenerate.
Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
Long time reader, first time posting.
I've always loved slivers and always tried to put together a competitive slivers deck, and I guess that now we have the tools for it
So this is my attempt:
Lands 20
4x Sliver Hive
4x Cavern of Souls
4x Ancient Ziggurat
4x Reflecting Pool
4x Mutavault
Creatures 36
4x Sinew Sliver
4x Predatory Sliver
4x Manaweft Sliver
4x Virulent Sliver
4x Diffusion Sliver
3x Galerider Sliver
3x Sidewinder Sliver
3x Phantasmal Image
2x Sentinel Sliver
2x Venom Sliver
1x Harmonic Sliver
2x Hivelord Sliver
Other 4
4x Aether Vial
It may look simple, and I'm probably losing a lot of great slivers in this build but I'm pretty sure that this can work.
Maybe I should change a few things in my mana base to put some shocklands and fetch lands instead of using all the rainbow lands, so I can put some specific non-sliver hatecards in my sideboard(btw I don't have one yet)
PS: I'm sorry but I don't know yet how to use the tools to post the decklist as you guys do :/
Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
Solidarity / Lands / Sneak and Show / Grixis Delver / Reanimator / Belcher / Storm / Dredge
As I've learned from playing with merfolks for a while, even being fragile, Image usually is the best creature in the field. Much like a glass cannon I know, but I really love Phantasmal Image.
The thing is that in Slivers, the best creature we have to be copied is Sinew, predatory and maybe diffusion, and most of time I find myself stuck with him in my hand and waiting for one them to come.
So I've tried put Hive Stirrings in it's place and I guess that I will not turn back.
Stirrings performed so good in my tests...those colorless slivers much needed in order to block Etched Champion, two extra slivers to tap for mana, chumpblock or even start the beatdown
We need to fill the field with our creatures and do it fast, and those tokens help with it, if only it was an instant...
Btw, I'm really liking this list and will gonna try it on a small champ this week in my LGS, after that I'll post the results here.
1 Breeding Pool
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Forest
2 Hallowed Fountain
2 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Mutavault
1 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast
2 Sliver Hive
1 Temple Garden
3 Mana Leak
4 Path to Exile
3 Remand
2 Spell Pierce
2 Spell Snare
2 Vapor Snag
4 Æther Vial
4 Diffusion Sliver
4 Galerider Sliver
2 Phantasmal Image
4 Predatory Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
Im thinking about using Adaptive Automaton to have more lords.
I posted up my take on what an aggro sliver deck should look like here: <div class="deck-list" data-stub="chrome-slivers-aggro"> </div>
The first thing you'll notice (other than it being 5 colours) is that I don't use manaweft slivers, this is mostly be because all of my slivers are 1 or 2 drops, and my only 3 drops is adaptive automaton. I have tons of evasion slivers so i can keep swinging in every turn, trading off a sliver (mostly lords gets blocked) is awful since it means a decrease in power for all of my slivers.
I want to find a way to use sedge sliver because its amazing, but playing 5 colors makes it extremely hard to get swamps in there. i might just include one of each black shock land but i really have no idea whats the best move.
I still need to replace my ancient zigs for cavern of souls
I play-tested this deck against infect and birthing pod so far, gave birthing pod a run for its money and infect is evidently a very bad match-up for me.
C Serum Eldrazi
Legacy:
C Eldrazi
C Mud
W Soldier Stompy
R Bread (big red stompy)
WU Spirit Blade
WUG Meat Hooks
WUBGR Blue Dredge
lol
C Serum Eldrazi
Legacy:
C Eldrazi
C Mud
W Soldier Stompy
R Bread (big red stompy)
WU Spirit Blade
WUG Meat Hooks
WUBGR Blue Dredge
4 Sliver Hive
3 Cavern of Souls
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2 Temple Garden
2 Marsh Flats
1 Blood Crypt
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Godless Shrine
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Forest
1 Stomping Ground
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Mutavault
Modern Warp / UR Control / UR Storm / Naya Breachshift / ElectroBalance
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