5-Color by ShortHairGoblinDog

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an explosive five-color Sliver tribal deck built around The First Sliver's cascade engine. The plan races to deploy the commander as early as turn 3-4 using a dense package of ritual effects (Dark Ritual, Seething Song, Culling the Weak, Mana Geyser, etc.), then triggers a cascade chain that dumps a critical mass of Slivers onto the battlefield in a single turn. The resulting board is loaded with haste (Blur Sliver, Heart Sliver, Cloudshredder Sliver, double strike (Bonescythe Sliver, Fury Sliver), lords (Sliver Legion, Might Sliver, Megantic Sliver), and utility (Sliver Hivelord for indestructibility, Pulmonic Sliver for graveyard protection). The primary win condition is overwhelming combat damage from a wide, keyword-laden army, often taking out all opponents in one or two swing phases after the cascade turn. The deck also packs two realizable infinite-combo lines (registered in the composite database) as a secondary path, and recursion via Sliver Gravemotther' encore ability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basal Sliver
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Blur Sliver
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Brood Sliver
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Crypt Sliver
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Diffusion Sliver
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Farseek
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fury Sliver
  • 1 Galerider Sliver
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Harmonic Sliver
  • 1 Hatchery Sliver
  • 1 Heart Sliver
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Horned Sliver
  • 1 Hunter Sliver
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lavabelly Sliver
  • 1 Lazotep Sliver
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Megantic Sliver
  • 1 Might Sliver
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Predatory Sliver
  • 1 Pulmonic Sliver
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Root Sliver
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sliver Gravemother
  • 1 Sliver Hivelord
  • 1 Sliver Legion
  • 1 Sliver Overlord
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Spiteful Sliver
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Synchronous Sliver
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrumming Hivepool
  • 1 Two-Headed Sliver
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Ward Sliver
  • 1 Winged Sliver
  • 1 Worldly Tutor