Protects non-black Slivers, Nullifies color protection advantage, and is 2 for 2. Nice.
rubber
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(9 votes)
Mediocre efficiency at best. A 2/2 for 2 is uninspiring, and both of those being color specific is restrictive. Its ability will rarely be relevant, and the subtype "Sliver" is kinda weak outside of casual. Still, not too bad and pretty interesting.
Etregan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Used as a 2/2 for 2 mana in a BR deck lets you have a creature immune to the long list of white spells that are aimed at black and red decks. Used this little bugger next to Ashenmoor Liege and he's kinda helpful.
Firesteel7
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(4 votes)
good effiecency but a little hard to play due to its multicoloredness, but its advantage is also its weakness. making all slivers colorless does nullify the color protection, but opens all slivers up to doomblade and the like, even the black ones, and protects itself from anti-multicolor spells.
OutlawD1
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(3 votes)
This guy might now be relevant with RotE set. Lots of colorless creature bonuses.
Gezus82
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
good sideboard if your opponent is running protection and/or color hate
ScissorsLizard
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Etregan: Ashenmoor Liege? This sliver makes Ashenmoor liege useless- as soon Ghostflame Sliver hits the field, he's no longer red or black.
As Gilder_Bairn stated, All is Dust gives this sliver some honest use. Only question is, has anyone made it work? I'd be curious to know the ratio of Ghostflame/AiD in a 60 card.
Sliver is a weak subtype? Since when? Sliver decks can be some of the most powerful decks, i bet you just don't know how to play with them and only use fatties and dont use teamwork at all. Don't call something weak if you ont know how to use it.
Kryptnyt
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(6 votes)
MasterOfEtherlum is staining MasterOfEtherium's good name. I have a problem with this.
Sliver_Master5829
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(12 votes)
Player 1: *is hysterical, thinking he has the perfect ay to kill slivers* Hahaha! ALL IS DUST! READ EM AND WEEP! YOUR SLIVERS ARE ALL........ DEAD!!! D-E-D DEAD!!! *maniacal laughter*
Player 2: *is perfectly calm* Dude, you just wasted seven mana. wanna know why?
Player 1: *Laughter stops suddenly, and is shocked* W-Why?
Player 2: *maintaining eye contact, plays Quick Sliver and then Ghostflame sliver* all slivers have flash, and in doing so, allows me to add to the stack: Taa-Daa! Ghostflame sliver! therefore making all my slivers COLORLESS and your card POINTLESS. way to fail my friend.
Crowd: *in amazment* woah........ totally owned..... *awkward silence, and then the crowd errupts in cheers*
That, actually happened about three days ago
DacenOctavio
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Slivers are not a week subtype. It only takes 3 slivers to break the game. This is a fact. Since slivers like to share abilities, having 3 identical creatures with a gamut of awesome powers is nothing to scoff at.
jsttu
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(5 votes)
A teaser to the futuresight card Ghostflame, itself a teaser for ROE. How far ahead does wizards plan these things? I discover new things in timespiral block each time i look. One of the best blocks ever flavorwise in my opinion. Getting more slivers was just a bonus.
Condor_96
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(4 votes)
@Sliver_Master5829
Nope. That's not how the stack works. Quick Sliver would have to resolve to give Ghostflame Sliver flash, and by the time it resolved, it would be too late to cast Ghostflame Sliver, as you'd already be going through the stack. The person who played All is Dust should've wiped out your board.
TechnoMagician
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
no he can indeed do that, after the opponent plays all to dust and doesn't play anything else he gets passed priority, he then plays quick sliver. he cannot play his ghostflame yet so he passes priority to his opponent, who now also passes, as both players passed priority the flash sliver resolves going onto the field, it is now in the all is dust players priority, he passes and now the sliver player plays ghostflame, both pass priority and now it resolves and is on the field, both pass again and all to dust resolves destroying nothing.
while correct he couldn't play both on the stack, he could infact get both out before all is dust resolves
Torturing101
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@Sliver_Master5829
You can't do that. You need to let Quick Sliver resolve before you can play Ghostflame Sliver, meaning All is Dust also would've resolved. Meaning you're the one who wasted mana.
Atali
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(11 votes)
@ Torturing101 @Condor_96
Player 1 casts All Is Dust Player 2 casts Quick Sliver in response to AiD Quick Sliver resolves (Sliver spells have flash) Player 2 casts Ghostflame Sliver in response to AiD Ghostflame Sliver resolves (All Slivers are colorless) All Is Dust Resolves, Slivers take note of the event, but are unimpressed.
But the only real reason to run this in a sliver deck is if you're running All Is Dust yourself (certainly not a bad idea).
Also, All Is Dust shouldn't be used as a reset button like that, that's really not it's best use. If you're playing it (seven mana sorcery) defensively, you're losing. It's a superpowerful finisher spell, akin to Plague Wind and Decree of Pain.
DarkbladeWraith
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
An interesting card with some positive uses, but I think there are more disadvantages to being colourless than their are advantages (particularly outside of RotE). Creatures with Fear and - especially as of New Phyrexia - Intimidate are the most obvious ways in which Ghostflame Sliver actually works against you, not to mention the number of removal cards that specify a "non-black" target.
Equinox523
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
@jsttu Even though that's a cool idea, this card is not an allusion to Ghostfire. It's an homage to Ghostly Flame, which was one of those old sideboards card that allowed Black Knight to get past Circle of Protection: Black, and stuff like that. Whereas the old phrasing was a bit awkward, this sliver cleans up the wording lots.
Goatllama
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(5 votes)
"All Is Dust Resolves, Slivers take note of the event, but are unimpressed."
LOL'd hard.
Hyberus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@ Atali Unfortunately that wouldn't work. The stack would resolve everything once the first spell started resolving, so after the quick sliver resolves nothing new could be added to it.
wholelottalove
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Useless sliver is useless.
TheWrathofShane
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@Atili
Not quite true, All is Dust hits almost everything except the mana trinkets you used to cast it. Using it as a reset button is not a bad idea at all. And bonus if you have Solemn Simulacrum out.
Missile_Penguin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card. Specifically, each Sliver in Time Spiral and Planar Chaos derive their ability and mana cost from a previously printed card.
This Sliver is referencing, appropriately enough, Ghostly Flame.
astralman
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Hyberus Actually Atali was correct. Even without double checking the rules I know that. It's how in several previous on-camera tournaments a player could cast Snapcaster Mage in response to another spell, let it resolve so that it's trigger occurs, target the Mana Leak flash it back and counter the opponent's spell.
manaderp
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I know I'm late here, but in the interest of not confusing new players who happen to read this: You could in fact flash in a Quick Sliver in response to All is Dust, let it resolve, then cast this one before All is Dust resolves, because whenever something resolves the active player gets priority (meaning all players, in turn order) have a chance to take further actions. This is pretty basic stuff, guys.
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Sliver is a weak subtype? Since when? Sliver decks can be some of the most powerful decks, i bet you just don't know how to play with them and only use fatties and dont use teamwork at all. Don't call something weak if you ont know how to use it.
Player 2: *is perfectly calm* Dude, you just wasted seven mana. wanna know why?
Player 1: *Laughter stops suddenly, and is shocked* W-Why?
Player 2: *maintaining eye contact, plays Quick Sliver and then Ghostflame sliver* all slivers have flash, and in doing so, allows me to add to the stack: Taa-Daa! Ghostflame sliver! therefore making all my slivers COLORLESS and your card POINTLESS. way to fail my friend.
Crowd: *in amazment* woah........ totally owned..... *awkward silence, and then the crowd errupts in cheers*
That, actually happened about three days ago
Nope. That's not how the stack works. Quick Sliver would have to resolve to give Ghostflame Sliver flash, and by the time it resolved, it would be too late to cast Ghostflame Sliver, as you'd already be going through the stack. The person who played All is Dust should've wiped out your board.
while correct he couldn't play both on the stack, he could infact get both out before all is dust resolves
You can't do that. You need to let Quick Sliver resolve before you can play Ghostflame Sliver, meaning All is Dust also would've resolved. Meaning you're the one who wasted mana.
@Condor_96
Player 1 casts All Is Dust
Player 2 casts Quick Sliver in response to AiD
Quick Sliver resolves (Sliver spells have flash)
Player 2 casts Ghostflame Sliver in response to AiD
Ghostflame Sliver resolves (All Slivers are colorless)
All Is Dust Resolves, Slivers take note of the event, but are unimpressed.
But the only real reason to run this in a sliver deck is if you're running All Is Dust yourself (certainly not a bad idea).
Also, All Is Dust shouldn't be used as a reset button like that, that's really not it's best use. If you're playing it (seven mana sorcery) defensively, you're losing. It's a superpowerful finisher spell, akin to Plague Wind and Decree of Pain.
LOL'd hard.
Unfortunately that wouldn't work. The stack would resolve everything once the first spell started resolving, so after the quick sliver resolves nothing new could be added to it.
Not quite true, All is Dust hits almost everything except the mana trinkets you used to cast it. Using it as a reset button is not a bad idea at all. And bonus if you have Solemn Simulacrum out.
Specifically, each Sliver in Time Spiral and Planar Chaos derive their ability and mana cost from a previously printed card.
This Sliver is referencing, appropriately enough, Ghostly Flame.
Actually Atali was correct. Even without double checking the rules I know that. It's how in several previous on-camera tournaments a player could cast Snapcaster Mage in response to another spell, let it resolve so that it's trigger occurs, target the Mana Leak flash it back and counter the opponent's spell.