The first sliver by user9198385

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered 5-color Sliver tribal strategy commanded by The First Sliver. The deck accelerates its mana curve using early dorks such as Gemhide Sliver, Manaweft Sliver, and Birds of Paradise alongside land ramp spells to cast the commander on Turn 4. Resolving The First Sliver triggers cascade, which cascades into lower-cost Slivers and snowballs board presence. By Turn 5, nested cascade triggers deploy game-ending lords like Sliver Legion, Bonescythe Sliver, and Cloudshredder Sliver, overwhelming opponents with high-power, evasive, double-striking attacks. In addition to combat dominance, the deck features the compact infinite combo of Mana Echoes and Sliver Queen to generate infinite tokens and mana. Built-in tribal protection from Crystalline Sliver, Root Sliver, and Sliver Hivelord shields the hive from opposing disruption, while Patriarch's Bidding ensures immediate recovery following board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Basal Sliver
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt Sliver
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Galerider Sliver
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Harmonic Sliver
  • 1 Hatchery Sliver
  • 1 Heart Sliver
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hibernation Sliver
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Homing Sliver
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lavabelly Sliver
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Manaweft Sliver
  • 1 Morophon, the Boundless
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Muscle Sliver
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necrotic Sliver
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Predatory Sliver
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Root Sliver
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Shifting Sliver
  • 1 Sliver Hive
  • 1 Sliver Hivelord
  • 1 Sliver Legion
  • 1 Sliver Overlord
  • 1 Sliver Queen
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Striking Sliver
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Synapse Sliver
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thrumming Hivepool
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Venom Sliver
  • 1 Virulent Sliver
  • 1 Wargate
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast