The First Sliver

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color tribal aggressive deck commanded by The First Sliver. It aims to assemble all five colors during the first three turns using mana dorks like Gemhide Sliver and Manaweft Sliver alongside flexible five-color lands. On Turn 4, casting the commander immediately starts a cascade chain. On Turn 5, casting subsequent Slivers cascades through the deck to rapidly assemble a lethal board with flying, double strike, and immense stat buffs from Sliver Legion or Mirror Entity. The deck protects its swarm using Crystalline Sliver, Sliver Hivelord, and Hibernation Sliver, while using Harmonic Sliver to systematically dismantle opposing artifacts and enchantments. Its primary win condition is overwhelming combat damage, closing out games by Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Crypt Sliver
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Essence Sliver
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Galerider Sliver
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Harmonic Sliver
  • 1 Harsh Mercy
  • 1 Hatchery Sliver
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hibernation Sliver
  • 1 Horned Sliver
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lavabelly Sliver
  • 1 Lazotep Sliver
  • 1 Leeching Sliver
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Manaweft Sliver
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Morophon, the Boundless
  • 1 Muscle Sliver
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necrotic Sliver
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Predatory Sliver
  • 1 Pulmonic Sliver
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Root Sliver
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sedge Sliver
  • 1 Sentinel Sliver
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Shifting Sliver
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidewinder Sliver
  • 1 Sinew Sliver
  • 1 Sliver Hive
  • 1 Sliver Hivelord
  • 1 Sliver Legion
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Spiteful Sliver
  • 1 Spoils of Victory
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Striking Sliver
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Synapse Sliver
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Tarnation Vista
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Thrumming Hivepool
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Venom Sliver
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground