We as humans are regarded as the most evolved form of life on Earth and there are hundreds if not over a thousand abilities in nature that we don't have.
Here's a new sliver for you.
Mean Sliver 2R
All Slivers have Intimidate.
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If you give all slivers Annihilator 1 then there is no reason NOT to attack with them because you have just turned every one of them into repeatable Vindicates. The cheapest form on Annihilate in ROE is on Umalog's Crusher at 8 if you give that to slivers then you are getting Annihilators for 1.
There are some abilities that should just never show up on slivers.
Even if Slivers did eventually get intimidate, indestructible and annihilator 1, that still probably wouldn't be put them over the top as the best deck in extended. What happened to "dies from removal" argument here?
One BIG problem with your approach. Slivers are a theme, you can't have a set with 5 slivers without some time of other support.
Time Spiral had 28 (2 purple rare), Planar Chaos 11, Future Site 6
By the time we saw the 6 in Future Site there were 39 already in standard.
The only way Core Set slivers are ever going to work is if they print around 20 of them in the Core Set. Or they print 5-10 in the Core Set and then give more in the following block.
Well, I'm of the opinion 12-15 Slivers (which would include a brand new Sliver legend) would be sufficient size for a core set hive, which is almost the size of the Tempest hive, and that many new Slivers is possible with the examples I gave.
Thematically, those probably were the colors that rallied and organized the rest of the 5 colors to rise up and fight the Eldrazi, the last two colors that didn't fall under their influence.
I've said it a couple times on here, I'll say it again, I'd be completely for seeing brand new Slivers in the basic core set with whatever evergreen keywords that we haven't seen yet. With abilities such as all 6 landwalk abilities, indestructible, lifelink, deathtouch and the 5-6 "Protection from..." possibilities. That should sate people's desire to see them for a bit.
Beyond that, maybe it is a good idea that WoTC wait a bit longer after SoM to utilizing Slivers.
My best guess is we'll eventually see a couple more Eldrazi in some distant future Time Spiral-esque block, or in a return to this plane, as both creatures and/or a planeswalker.
At this point, the only thing left to be spoiled that has me at the edge of my seat, waiting patiently for, is the last nonbasic land. Everything else is just gravy.
On the surface, it needs to be in a deck that cares about creatures and it happens to be in the color that cares the least about creatures.
The fact that the card is a sorcery totally ruins any potential it may have. Since it needs to be in a deck that cares about creatures, it means that you want to be using those creatures. If it was an instant, theoretically you could cast it at the end of your opponents turn and tap your creatures then.
I suppose this goes into the epic Savor the moment / vigilance deck that is tearing up tournies.
Or it'll be used in decks that care about having creatures on the board, with blue as a third support color, mono blue or split-blue be damned.
I'm of the mind that the "Dude Recall" will see tons of play in an Eldrazi deck, if its mana base can be stretched just to add a few Deprives and the Recalls.
Furthermore, in terms of design, there isn't much difference between a Sliver that grants protection from, say, black and a Sliver that grants protection from colorles stuff.
Yeah there is, something like that would give slivers protection from lands, artifacts and colorless creatures and spells that WoTC is starting to push.
Toxin Sliver and Essence Sliver were deathtouch(sorta) and lifelink respectively before they reworked the how those abilities worked post-M10. You youngin's may not remember that.
I meant "Protection from colorless sources [however WoTC wants to word it]..."
Most casual players don't play with five Ward Slivers, and obviously you could've only given your guys protection from four colors, and colorless wasn't an option.
Actually, in such a case an errata and a reprint might be a better solution. While there's technically no Sliver that grants Lifelink or Deathtouch, from a design perspective, there'd be absolutely no difference.
And they did, for a while. But for whatever reasons, WoTC made the decision to change from the errata given to these older cards back to how they were originally worded.
The only card given these errata changes that still have them is Loxodon Warhammer.
Even if Slivers did eventually get intimidate, indestructible and annihilator 1, that still probably wouldn't be put them over the top as the best deck in extended. What happened to "dies from removal" argument here?
Well, I'm of the opinion 12-15 Slivers (which would include a brand new Sliver legend) would be sufficient size for a core set hive, which is almost the size of the Tempest hive, and that many new Slivers is possible with the examples I gave.
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I've said it a couple times on here, I'll say it again, I'd be completely for seeing brand new Slivers in the basic core set with whatever evergreen keywords that we haven't seen yet. With abilities such as all 6 landwalk abilities, indestructible, lifelink, deathtouch and the 5-6 "Protection from..." possibilities. That should sate people's desire to see them for a bit.
Beyond that, maybe it is a good idea that WoTC wait a bit longer after SoM to utilizing Slivers.
This, cracked me up. Well played sir.
We are getting a printed legendary token, I was assuming WoTC counted it as among the 7 listed from the Orb.
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T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
would be outrageous. That would pretty much tie up the Moxes in my mind.
Or it'll be used in decks that care about having creatures on the board, with blue as a third support color, mono blue or split-blue be damned.
Yeah there is, something like that would give slivers protection from lands, artifacts and colorless creatures and spells that WoTC is starting to push.
Check my thoughts after that.
I meant "Protection from colorless sources [however WoTC wants to word it]..."
Most casual players don't play with five Ward Slivers, and obviously you could've only given your guys protection from four colors, and colorless wasn't an option.
And they did, for a while. But for whatever reasons, WoTC made the decision to change from the errata given to these older cards back to how they were originally worded.
The only card given these errata changes that still have them is Loxodon Warhammer.