2003 deck by sherballah

Format: Commander

Commander: Sliver Queen

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic five-color Sliver tribal deck helmed by Sliver Queen, the iconic token-generating commander. The primary game plan is to establish a critical mass of Slivers on the battlefield, leveraging their synergistic abilities-haste, flying, +1/+1 lords, shroud, trample, and more-to overwhelm opponents through combat damage. The deck does not rely on infinite combos; instead, it uses an aggressive swarm backed by efficient tutors like Sliver Overlord (a repeatable search engine) and Demonic Tutor to find key pieces. Mana acceleration via Sol Ring, Birds of Paradise, and green ramp spells ensures the commander can be deployed early. A suite of spot removal, board wipes, and recursion from Volrath's Stronghold provides moderate resilience, though the plan is fundamentally linear: deploy lords, attack, and clean up.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Acidic Sliver
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blade Sliver
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brood Sliver
  • 1 Capsize
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clot Sliver
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt Sliver
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Dismantling Blow
  • 1 Dust Bowl
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Essence Sliver
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heart Sliver
  • 1 Heartstone
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Horned Sliver
  • 3 Island
  • 1 La abundancia de Yucahú
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Magma Sliver
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mistform Ultimus
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Muscle Sliver
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oblivion Stone
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Pernicious Deed
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Plated Sliver
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Root Sliver
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shifting Sliver
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sliver Overlord
  • 1 Sliver Queen
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Star Compass
  • 1 Steely Resolve
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Synapse Sliver
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talon Sliver
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thran Quarry
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxin Sliver
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undiscovered Paradise
  • 1 Utopia Tree
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Ward Sliver
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Winged Sliver
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Wrath of God