Sliver Tool-lord

Commander / EDH* Sliver

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Sliver (42)

• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Basal Sliver
• 1x Blur Sliver
• 1x Brood Sliver
• 1x Constricting Sliver
• 1x Crypt Sliver
• 1x Crystalline Sliver
• 1x Diffusion Sliver
• 1x Dormant Sliver
• 1x Galerider Sliver
• 1x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Harmonic Sliver
• 1x Heart Sliver
• 1x Hibernation Sliver
• 1x Homing Sliver
• 1x Horned Sliver
• 1x Leeching Sliver
• 1x Manaweft Sliver
• 1x Megantic Sliver
• 1x Might Sliver
• 1x Muscle Sliver
• 1x Necrotic Sliver
• 1x Opaline Sliver
• 1x Predatory Sliver
• 1x Psionic Sliver
• 1x Pulmonic Sliver
• 1x Quick Sliver
• 1x Root Sliver
• 1x Sedge Sliver
• 1x Sentinel Sliver
• 1x Shadow Sliver
• 1x Shifting Sliver
• 1x Sinew Sliver
• 1x Sliver Hivelord
• 1x Striking Sliver
• 1x Synapse Sliver
• 1x Syphon Sliver
• 1x Telekinetic Sliver
• 1x Toxin Sliver
• 1x Venom Sliver
• 1x Virulent Sliver
• 1x Winged Sliver

Deathtouch (2)

• 1x Toxin Sliver
• 1x Venom Sliver

Politics (2)

• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Opaline Sliver

Tutor (2)

• 1x Homing Sliver
• 1x Mystical Tutor

Control (1)

• 1x Telekinetic Sliver

Flash (1)

• 1x Quick Sliver

Ping (1)

• 1x Psionic Sliver

Sac outlet (1)

• 1x Basal Sliver

Tokens (1)

• 1x Brood Sliver

Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sliver Hive
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Protection (7)

• 1x Crystalline Sliver
• 1x Diffusion Sliver
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Hibernation Sliver
• 1x Root Sliver
• 1x Sliver Hivelord
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Removal (5)

• 1x Constricting Sliver
• 1x Harmonic Sliver
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Necrotic Sliver
• 1x Path to Exile

Recursion (2)

• 1x Aphetto Dredging
• 1x Pulmonic Sliver

Wipe (2)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Kindred Dominance

Life gain (1)

• 1x Syphon Sliver

Poison (1)

• 1x Virulent Sliver

Trample (1)

• 1x Horned Sliver

Commander (1)

Ramp (10)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Manaweft Sliver
• 1x Pillar of Origins
• 1x Sol Ring

Pump (9)

• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Leeching Sliver
• 1x Megantic Sliver
• 1x Might Sliver
• 1x Muscle Sliver
• 1x Predatory Sliver
• 1x Sedge Sliver
• 1x Sinew Sliver
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

Draw (7)

• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Dormant Sliver
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Opaline Sliver
• 1x Synapse Sliver
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

Evasion (5)

• 1x Galerider Sliver
• 1x Pulmonic Sliver
• 1x Shadow Sliver
• 1x Shifting Sliver
• 1x Winged Sliver

Combo (2)

• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Paradox Engine

Haste (2)

• 1x Blur Sliver
• 1x Heart Sliver

Regeneration (2)

• 1x Crypt Sliver
• 1x Sedge Sliver

Bounce (1)

• 1x Hibernation Sliver

First strike (1)

• 1x Striking Sliver

Mana acceleration (1)

• 1x Basal Sliver

Vigilance (1)

• 1x Sentinel Sliver

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Maybeboard

Other (18)

• 1x Bonescythe Sliver
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Frenetic Sliver
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Hive Stirrings
• 1x Megantic Sliver
• 1x Mesmeric Sliver
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet
• 1x Screeching Sliver
• 1x Sliver Legion
• 1x Sliver Queen *oversized*
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Wild Pair

Wipe (1)

• 1x Armageddon

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Toolbox Tutor Targets

Sliver Overlord tutor targets, abridged

• Removal: Harmonic Sliver, Necrotic Sliver, Constricting Sliver, Amoeboid Changeling + Sliver Overlord's stealing ability.
• Card Draw: Dormant Sliver, Synapse Sliver, Opaline Sliver
• Protection: Diffusion Sliver, Hibernation Sliver, Crystalline Sliver, Root Sliver, Sliver Hivelord
• Ramp: Manaweft Sliver, Gemhide Sliver
• Interaction: Quick Sliver, Crypt Sliver, Magma Sliver, Telekinetic Sliver, Frenetic Sliver, Psionic Sliver

Mystical Tutor targets, abridged

• draw: Distant Melody
• ramp: Farseek, Kodama's Reach, Cultivate
• recursion: Aphetto Dredging, Patriarch's Bidding
• removal: Swords to Plowshares, Path to Exile, Mortify, Anguished Unmaking
• wipe: Cyclonic Rift, Kindred Dominance, Day of Judgment
• interaction: Bant Charm, Counterspell, Teferi's Protection, Heroic Intervention, Boros Charm

Enlightened Tutor Targets, Abridged

• draw: Vanquisher's Banner, Herald's Horn, Kindred Discovery
• ramp: Sol Ring, Chromatic Lantern, Darksteel Ingot, etc., Training Grounds, Heartstone
• combo: Intruder Alarm, Paradox Engine

The Combo

The main combo is to use Manaweft Sliver/Gemhide Sliver with Paradox Engine/Intruder Alarm to chain together a lot of sliver spells. You can use Sliver Overlord's tutor ability to grab Heart Sliver/Blur Sliver and then pull all the slivers out of your deck and cast them using the mana they create. You'll end up with lots of highly evasive large slivers, swing for the win!

Deckbuilding Notes

• Board Wipes: when I played the previous version of this deck, board wipes were almost always a dead card in my hand, this deck wants to play pretty aggressively and your average Wrath of God style board wipe will hit you harder than your opponents, I opted to tone down the number of boardwipes and tune them to be beneficial. Kindred Dominance and Cyclonic Rift are both one-sided. Generally I like to leave it to those two but Day of Judgment may come in for heavy aggro matches. It seems like a downgraded wrath but the prevalence of Wrath of God has meant that no one runs regeneration. Crypt Sliver lets us play Day of Judgment and keep all of our slivers. A similar trick can be pulled off with Sedge Sliver and Manaweft Sliver/Gemhide Sliver.
• Board Wipe Protection: As mentioned above, in most games this deck provokes the board wipes, so it's advantageous to try to counteract them. We're trying to pack spell that can mitigate board wipes but are beneficial in other game states too. Teferi's Protection handles everything and is the most effective tool we have against exile/bounce/tucking/toughness based wipes. Frenetic Sliver can do something close enough, though its up to luck with what we keep and what actually dies. Boros Charm, Heroic Intervention, and Sliver Hivelord all counteract "destroy" based wipes and the two non creature spells have useful other modes. Counter spell options (Counterspell/Swan Song/Arcane Denial) can also stop most board wipes and are versatile spells in general. Aphetto Dredging and Patriarch's Bidding don't prevent or nullify a wipe, but can help you recover from one.
• Manabase: It is very painful, but that's the sacrifice for budget and speed (only 1 land always comes into play tapped). I've found its important to be playing on curve so that Sliver Overlord comes out on time, because if you can get to that point, you can tutor for Syphon Sliver or Essence Sliver to build your life total back up. Chromatic Lantern also helps mitigate the life loss quite a bit on the fetchlands and Mana Confluence.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	103
Avg. CMC	3.12
Tokens	Sliver 1/1 C