Slivers by user1547706

Format: Commander

Commander: Sliver Hivelord

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck is a classic 5-color tribal aggro build commanded by Sliver Hivelord. The game plan revolves around playing low-cost slivers in the early turns, establishing mana fixing through Gemhide Sliver and Manaweft Sliver, and deploying the commander on Turn 5 to render the entire swarm indestructible. Once shielded from destruction, the deck breaks parity on board wipes like Kindred Dominance and Cleansing Nova, sweeping opposing boards while keeping its own intact. It finishes games through scalable combat damage enhanced by lords, double strike from Bonescythe Sliver, and evasion from Galerider Sliver or Shifting Sliver. While exceptionally resilient against conventional combat and destroy-based removal, the deck relies heavily on natural draws due to a minimal tutor suite, and it remains vulnerable to mass exile, bounce spells, and fast combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Vengeance
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Backlash
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Brood Sliver
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Coastal Tower
  • 1 Collective Restraint
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Crypt Sliver
  • 1 Crystal Quarry
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Diffusion Sliver
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Galerider Sliver
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Harsh Mercy
  • 1 Hatchery Sliver
  • 1 Heart Sliver
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hibernation Sliver
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lazotep Sliver
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magma Sliver
  • 1 Manaweft Sliver
  • 1 Megantic Sliver
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Muscle Sliver
  • 1 Necrotic Sliver
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pillar of Origins
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Predatory Sliver
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Psionic Sliver
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Reparations
  • 1 Root Sliver
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sentinel Sliver
  • 1 Shifting Sliver
  • 1 Sinew Sliver
  • 1 Sliver Gravemother
  • 1 Sliver Hive
  • 1 Sliver Hivelord
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Sliver
  • 1 Striking Sliver
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Synapse Sliver
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Tangle
  • 1 Thran Portal
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxin Sliver
  • 1 Two-Headed Sliver
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Venom Sliver
  • 1 Ward Sliver
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Winged Sliver