The Hive

Commander / EDH*

Zachmarshall91

Creature (39)

• 1x Basal Sliver
• 1x Bonescythe Sliver
• 1x Cloudshredder Sliver
• 1x Crystalline Sliver
• 1x Darkheart Sliver
• 1x Diffusion Sliver
• 1x Dormant Sliver
• 1x Dregscape Sliver
• 1x Galerider Sliver
• 1x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Harmonic Sliver
• 1x Heart Sliver
• 1x Hibernation Sliver
• 1x Hollowhead Sliver
• 1x Homing Sliver
• 1x Lavabelly Sliver
• 1x Manaweft Sliver
• 1x Megantic Sliver
• 1x Muscle Sliver
• 1x Necrotic Sliver
• 1x Opaline Sliver
• 1x Predatory Sliver
• 1x Quick Sliver
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Root Sliver
• 1x Sedge Sliver
• 1x Sentinel Sliver
• 1x Shifting Sliver
• 1x Sinew Sliver
• 1x Sliver Hivelord
• 1x Sliver Legion
• 1x Sliver Overlord
• 1x Sliver Queen *oversized*
• 1x Spiteful Sliver
• 1x Striking Sliver
• 1x Syphon Sliver
• 1x Two-Headed Sliver
• 1x Venom Sliver
• 1x Ward Sliver

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x High Market
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest *f-etch*
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs *f-etch*
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Commander (1)

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Three Visits

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (6)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Rhystic Study

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Still a huge work in progress, especially with the mana base. Also changing around almost all the creatures, and will eventually work it around to be more of a combo deck. Looking to make some significant changes after Modern Horizons is released, but as of now here are some reasonings for the current cards on the list:

Protection Package

Crystalline Sliver - Now your opponents can't target your slivers

Sliver Hivelord - Nullifies attempts at a lot of board wipes. Still screwed to things like Merciless Eviction, but we have a few options to help with that. Really nice if we have Quick Sliver in play and we can flash this out after they play the board wipe so they waste it.

Teferi's Protection - When setting up the combo pieces sometimes it's not a bad idea to try and save 3 mana for this to save our life total or our board state.

Cavern of Souls - Gives you some protection if you're paying a key sliver

Root Sliver - Allows you to play slivers freely without worrying about counters

Hibernation Sliver - This will allow you to bounce slivers back to your hand if needed to avoid creatures getting killed, or worse, exiled. This also has a nice interaction with The First Sliver or any higher mana sliver when they are in play, so we can bounce and cascade if there are no other moves to be made.

Mana fix and Ramp

All of these cards should speak for themselves, but mana is insanely important in this deck, as long as you can keep fueling it with mana big plays can be made, so the objective early is to start generating as much mana as possible and wait until we can dump it to make a big move and avoid disruption:

Mirari's Wake, Cryptolith Rite, Manaweft Sliver, Gemhide Sliver, Fellwar Stone, Chromatic Lantern, Darksteel Ingot, Coalition Relic

Combo Pieces

Sliver Queen + Basal Sliver + Heart Sliver + Gemhide Sliver = All sliver infinite mana and tokens combo, make one token, tap it, sac it for BB, use the black to make another token and net the mana from tapping the creature. Finish the win with Acidic Sliver, Necrotic Sliver, Cautery Sliver etc. to finish the job.

Sliver Queen + Training Grounds + Mana Echoes = make one sliver, triggers Mana Echoes, make another sliver token and repeat infinitely.

Sliver Overlord + Paradox Engine + Gemhide Sliver + Heart Sliver = We will need enough mana to search with the overlord and at least cast one sliver, this will untap all slivers when we cast the tutored sliver, allowing us to repeat the process with one additional sliver for mana each time. This will take some consideration when searching for a sliver so you leave enough mana to cast a creature and repeat the process. This comes in handy if the combo pieces are gone and we need to go to plan B and swarm and play Sliver Legion.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Copy Clone, Sliver 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 C