The First Sliver B4 test by ralmeister

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Helmed by The First Sliver, this is a five-color Sliver tribal deck built to convert the command zone into a cascade engine. The plan is to spend the early turns deploying mana dorks, Sliver mana producers, and cost reducers such as Urza's Incubator and Herald's Horn, then cast The First Sliver and chain cheaper Sliver spells off cascade. The payoff is a wide, keyword-soup board: Sliver Legion pumps, Bonescythe Sliver gives double strike, Cloudshredder Sliver grants haste and flying, Shifting Sliver makes the team unblockable, and Sliver Hivelord provides indestructible. Secondary paths include tutoring with Sliver Overlord and Homing Sliver, and turning Blasphemous Act plus Spiteful Sliver into a burst-damage wipe. There are no infinite combos; the primary win is combat damage, with damage triggers as a backup finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basal Sliver
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt Sliver
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Diffusion Sliver
  • 1 Dregscape Sliver
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Galerider Sliver
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Harmonic Sliver
  • 1 Heart Sliver
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hibernation Sliver
  • 1 Homing Sliver
  • 1 Horned Sliver
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Lavabelly Sliver
  • 1 Manaweft Sliver
  • 1 Morophon, the Boundless
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Root Sliver
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sentinel Sliver
  • 1 Shifting Sliver
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sliver Hive
  • 1 Sliver Hivelord
  • 1 Sliver Legion
  • 1 Sliver Overlord
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Sliver
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Tempered Sliver
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 Thrumming Hivepool
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Venom Sliver
  • 1 Ward Sliver
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground