Slivertime Sadness (9.75) by Ponhead

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power 5-color Sliver combo deck commanded by The First Sliver. Its primary strategy revolves around assembling the Food Chain engine alongside cast-from-exile creatures like Eternal Scourge, Misthollow Griffin, or Squee, the Immortal. By generating infinite colored creature mana, the deck casts The First Sliver repeatedly from the command zone, cascading through every card with mana value 4 or less in the library. This drops Lavabelly Sliver to instantly drain the table for lethal damage on Turn 4. Backed by a pristine 5-color mana base, dense tutors, and tribal protection like Crystalline Sliver and Root Sliver, the deck can also pivot seamlessly into a resilient tribal beatdown plan or a backup infinite token loop using Sliver Queen and Mana Echoes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Diffusion Sliver
  • 1 Dormant Sliver
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Galerider Sliver
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hatchery Sliver
  • 1 Heart Sliver
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hibernation Sliver
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lavabelly Sliver
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Manaweft Sliver
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misthollow Griffin
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morophon, the Boundless
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necrotic Sliver
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Root Sliver
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sliver Gravemother
  • 1 Sliver Hive
  • 1 Sliver Hivelord
  • 1 Sliver Legion
  • 1 Sliver Overlord
  • 1 Sliver Queen
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Sliver
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steely Resolve
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Virulent Sliver
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Winged Sliver
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth