Sliver by VanCortlandt

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy 5-color tribal aggro deck commanded by The First Sliver. The strategy focuses on establishing all five colors of mana during the early turns using ramp spells and mana-fixing Slivers like Gemhide Sliver and Manaweft Sliver. Once The First Sliver enters the battlefield on Turn 4, every subsequent Sliver spell triggers a cascade chain, rapidly putting multiple creatures directly onto the battlefield without expending extra cards from hand. The deck translates this explosive board presence into a lethal threat by stacking key combat abilities, notably haste from Cloudshredder Sliver, evasion from Galerider Sliver or Shifting Sliver, and double strike from Bonescythe Sliver. Protective pieces like Crystalline Sliver and Sliver Hivelord safeguard the hive against targeted removal and damage-based board wipes, enabling a clean multi-player combat finish across Turns 5 and 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Belligerent Sliver
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blur Sliver
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Brood Sliver
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constricting Sliver
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Darkheart Sliver
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Diffusion Sliver
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Essence Sliver
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fungus Sliver
  • 1 Galerider Sliver
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Harmonic Sliver
  • 1 Heart Sliver
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hivestone
  • 1 Horned Sliver
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lavabelly Sliver
  • 1 Lazotep Sliver
  • 1 Leeching Sliver
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Manaweft Sliver
  • 1 Megantic Sliver
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Muscle Sliver
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necrotic Sliver
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Predatory Sliver
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sentinel Sliver
  • 1 Shadow Sliver
  • 1 Shifting Sliver
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sidewinder Sliver
  • 1 Sinew Sliver
  • 1 Sliver Hive
  • 1 Sliver Hivelord
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Sliver
  • 1 Striking Sliver
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Synapse Sliver
  • 2 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Tempered Sliver
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 Thrumming Hivepool
  • 1 Toxin Sliver
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Venom Sliver
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast