The First Sliver by Imp_Champ

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color tribal aggro build commanded by The First Sliver. Its primary strategy revolves around fixing all five colors of mana by Turn 4 or 5, deploying its commander, and leveraging the cascade mechanic to rapidly empty Slivers from the library directly onto the battlefield. The swarm quickly gains flying, unblockable, double strike, and massive power boosts from lords like Cloudshredder Sliver, Bonescythe Sliver, and Megantic Sliver. While the deck possesses explosive mid-game snowball potential and resilient on-board protection via Crystalline Sliver and Sliver Hivelord, it lacks instant-speed countermagic and fast positive mana rocks. It closes games through honest combat steps over several turns rather than infinite combo loops, relying on ten symmetric board sweepers as reset buttons when falling behind on board parity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armillary Sphere
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Brood Sliver
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Cleaving Sliver
  • 1 Cloudshredder Sliver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constricting Sliver
  • 1 Crypt Sliver
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Crystalline Sliver
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Diffusion Sliver
  • 1 Dig Up
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firewake Sliver
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fungus Sliver
  • 1 Galerider Sliver
  • 1 Gaze of Granite
  • 1 Gemhide Sliver
  • 1 Harmonic Sliver
  • 1 Hatchery Sliver
  • 1 Hive Stirrings
  • 1 Homing Sliver
  • 1 Hour of Revelation
  • 1 Hunter Sliver
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lancer Sliver
  • 1 Lavabelly Sliver
  • 1 Manaweft Sliver
  • 1 Megantic Sliver
  • 1 Might Sliver
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Muscle Sliver
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necrotic Sliver
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Opaline Sliver
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Psionic Sliver
  • 1 Purify
  • 1 Quick Sliver
  • 1 Return from Extinction
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sedge Sliver
  • 1 Sentinel Sliver
  • 1 Shifting Sliver
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sliver Hivelord
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Sliver
  • 1 Striking Sliver
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Sliver
  • 1 Telekinetic Sliver
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Venom Sliver
  • 1 Vivid Grove
  • 1 Vivid Marsh
  • 1 Vivid Meadow
  • 1 Wild Pair
  • 1 Winds of Rath
  • 1 Winged Sliver
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrath of God