Sliver Commander by mjaspike

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated five-color tribal aggro engine led by The First Sliver. Its primary strategy revolves around fixing all five colors during the first three turns, casting the commander on Turn 5 to trigger cascading creature chains, and overwhelming opponents through combat on Turns 6 and 7. Every Sliver enhances the entire hive, stacking abilities such as haste, flying, double strike, unblockability, shroud, and massive power buffs from Sliver Legion and Bonescythe Sliver. While the mana base features several tapped tri-lands that slow early development, the deck compensates with strong ramp pieces like Manaweft Sliver and Farseek. It protects its board state using Crystalline Sliver, Sliver Hivelord, and Hibernation Sliver, while recovering from sweepers through mass reanimation spells like Patriarch's Bidding and Eerie Ultimatum. The deck operates as a snowballing combat machine with minimal noncreature interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Bonesplitter Sliver
  • 1 Brood Sliver
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Capricious Sliver
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Cleaving Sliver
  • 1 Clot Sliver
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constricting Sliver
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crypt Sliver
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Diffusion Sliver
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 For the Ancestors
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Harmonic Sliver
  • 1 Harsh Mercy
  • 1 Hatchery Sliver
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hibernation Sliver
  • 1 Homing Sliver
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lazotep Sliver
  • 1 Magma Sliver
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manaweft Sliver
  • 1 Megantic Sliver
  • 1 Might Sliver
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Muscle Sliver
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necrotic Sliver
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Pillar of Origins
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Predatory Sliver
  • 1 Pyre of Heroes
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 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 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Striking Sliver
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Synapse Sliver
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Taunting Sliver
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Thorncaster Sliver
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Titan of Littjara
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Venom Sliver
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast