The First Sliver

Commander / EDH*

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Creature (49)

• 1x Averna, the Chaos Bloom
• 1x Basal Sliver
• 1x Blur Sliver
• 1x Bonescythe Sliver
• 1x Brood Sliver
• 1x Capricious Sliver
• 1x Clot Sliver
• 1x Cloudshredder Sliver
• 1x Constricting Sliver
• 1x Crypt Sliver
• 1x Crystalline Sliver
• 1x Diffusion Sliver
• 1x Firewake Sliver
• 1x Fury Sliver
• 1x Galerider Sliver
• 1x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Harmonic Sliver
• 1x Hatchery Sliver
• 1x Hibernation Sliver
• 1x Hollowhead Sliver
• 1x Homing Sliver
• 1x Horned Sliver
• 1x Hunter Sliver
• 1x Lancer Sliver
• 1x Lazotep Sliver
• 1x Magma Sliver
• 1x Manaweft Sliver
• 1x Megantic Sliver
• 1x Might Sliver
• 1x Morophon, the Boundless
• 1x Necrotic Sliver
• 1x Quick Sliver
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Regal Sliver
• 1x Sentinel Sliver
• 1x Shifting Sliver
• 1x Sinew Sliver
• 1x Sliver Gravemother
• 1x Sliver Hivelord
• 1x Spiteful Sliver
• 1x Striking Sliver
• 1x Synapse Sliver
• 1x Syphon Sliver
• 1x Taunting Sliver
• 1x Titan of Littjara
• 1x Two-Headed Sliver
• 1x Venom Sliver
• 1x Virulent Sliver
• 1x Winged Sliver

Land (35)

• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Secluded Courtyard
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Vault of Champions

Commander (1)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Lotus Bloom
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sol Talisman
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Descendants' Fury
• 1x Descendants' Path
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Prismatic Omen

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Primal Surge
• 1x Profane Tutor

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 1x And They Shall Know No Fear
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x For the Ancestors
• 1x Ready / Willing

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Cryptolith Rite

Creature (2)

• 1x Lavabelly Sliver
• 1x Sliver Legion

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Kindred Dominance

Land (2)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis

Artifact (1)

• 1x Coat of Arms

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Maybeboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Muscle Sliver
• 1x Opaline Sliver
• 1x Predatory Sliver
• 1x Pulmonic Sliver
• 1x Root Sliver
• 1x Talon Sliver

Artifact (2)

• 1x Mox Tantalite
• 1x Pillar of Origins

Land (1)

• 1x Sliver Hive

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A sliver tribal deck upgrade of the Sliver Swarm precon deck that now uses The First Sliver as the commander.

The idea with this deck is that the suspend cards (Ancestral Vision, Lotus Bloom, etc) have mana value zero, so you have a chance to cascade into a free Ancestral Recall or Black Lotus if every time you cascade. Because those cascade cards are the only non-permanents, you can cast Primal Surge after you've exhausted all the cascade cards and essentially cheat out your entire deck.

Other notable additions:

• Morophon, the Boundless for those sweet free casts of Sliver Legion, Sliver Hivelord, The First Sliver, and Sliver Gravemother as well as Cloudshredder Sliver, Crystalline Sliver, etc.
• Horned Sliver because somehow that's the only sliver that gives trample
• Averna, the Chaos Bloom which gives free land drops on each cascade (and is notably the only non-sliver creature in the deck)
• Chromatic Lantern because Wizards was kind enough to reprint it in Commander Masters but not kind enough to put it in the 5-color deck from the same set

Notable combos:

• Bonescythe Sliver and either something like Cloudshredder Sliver or Shifting Sliver works well with anything that triggers when you deal damage to a player, like Synapse Sliver or Brood Sliver. Being able to not only get damage through, but also rapidly draw cards and/or create a lot of tokens allows you to very quickly get out of control
• Hatchery Sliver or Sliver Gravemother and any sliver that has a stacking effect, such as a power and toughness boost from Sinew Sliver and the like, or static abilities like Brood Sliver's, Synapse Sliver's, or Diffusion Sliver's --- and, if you can afford it, Sliver Legion's

Date added	2 years
Last updated	11 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 1 Mythic Rares 44 - 6 Rares 28 - 4 Uncommons 18 - 1 Commons
Cards	102
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Copy Clone, Sliver 1/1 C, Sliver Army 0/0 B, The Monarch
Folders	Commander