The First Cockroach by user5040515

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a highly synergistic, 5-color tribal strategy helmed by The First Sliver. The primary game plan revolves around ramping early, establishing a board of utility Slivers, and casting the commander to trigger a massive cascade chain. Because the commander grants all subsequent Sliver spells cascade, the deck quickly floods the board with interconnected buffs, granting the swarm flying, haste, double strike, and indestructible. The deck wins primarily through overwhelming combat inevitability, utilizing Sliver Legion and Bonescythe Sliver to deal lethal damage across the table. Additionally, the deck features two distinct infinite combos utilizing Sliver Queen and Morophon, the Boundless to close out games without relying solely on the combat step. It plays like an explosive, resilient snowball that demands immediate answers before the overlapping protection abilities of Crystalline Sliver and Sliver Hivelord make the board state completely untouchable.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Basal Sliver
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Crypt Sliver
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diffusion Sliver
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Galerider Sliver
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harmonic Sliver
  • 1 Hatchery Sliver
  • 1 Heart Sliver
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hibernation Sliver
  • 1 Horned Sliver
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lavabelly Sliver
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manaweft Sliver
  • 1 Morophon, the Boundless
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Tantalite
  • 1 Muscle Sliver
  • 1 Necrotic Sliver
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Predatory Sliver
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Regal Sliver
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sedge Sliver
  • 1 Sentinel Sliver
  • 1 Shifting Sliver
  • 1 Sinew Sliver
  • 1 Sliver Gravemother
  • 1 Sliver Hive
  • 1 Sliver Hivelord
  • 1 Sliver Legion
  • 1 Sliver Overlord
  • 1 Sliver Queen
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sol Talisman
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Striking Sliver
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Synapse Sliver
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Taunting Sliver
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Thrumming Hivepool
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Venom Sliver
  • 1 Virulent Sliver
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome