The Hivemind by TiredDad50

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color tribal aggro powerhouse built around The First Sliver. It utilizes shared Sliver abilities to create an exponential combat engine. The game plan focuses on fixing mana through land drops and green-based mana creatures like Manaweft Sliver and Gemhide Sliver to cast the commander on Turn 5. Once The First Sliver resolves, every subsequent Sliver spell triggers cascading value chains that rapidly deploy lords, evasion, and utility creatures directly from the library without paying mana costs. The deck quickly builds an overwhelming combat presence, leveraging anthems like Sliver Legion and Coat of Arms alongside evasion from Galerider Sliver and Cloudshredder Sliver to eliminate opponents across Turns 6 and 7. While the deck boasts high permanent redundancy and strong protective pieces like Crystalline Sliver and Sliver Hivelord, its heavy reliance on tap-lands and low instant-speed interaction make it vulnerable to fast combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancestral Vision
  • 1 And They Shall Know No Fear
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Belligerent Sliver
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Blur Sliver
  • 1 Bone Harvest
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Bonesplitter Sliver
  • 1 Brood Sliver
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cleaving Sliver
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constricting Sliver
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Diffusion Sliver
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Dregscape Sliver
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Flood Plain
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Galerider Sliver
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Harmonic Sliver
  • 1 Heart Sliver
  • 1 Hibernation Sliver
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lavabelly Sliver
  • 1 Manaweft Sliver
  • 1 Megantic Sliver
  • 1 Might Sliver
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Muscle Sliver
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Necrotic Sliver
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Predatory Sliver
  • 1 Pulmonic Sliver
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rukarumel, Biologist
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sentinel Sliver
  • 1 Shifting Sliver
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sinew Sliver
  • 1 Sliver Hive
  • 1 Sliver Hivelord
  • 1 Sliver Legion
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Sliver
  • 1 Striking Sliver
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Synapse Sliver
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Two-Headed Sliver
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Venom Sliver
  • 1 Virulent Sliver
  • 1 Volrath, the Shapestealer
  • 1 Warleader's Call
  • 1 White Lotus Tile
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zagoth Triome