Not that playable i guess. Unless you can come up with a creature that has a really nice synergy with accordant slivers, this card means nothing but card disadvantage for you.
Azr43l
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I don't know. You could stick Progenitus or Darksteel in a sliver deck with this and watch them get even more ridiculous than they already are. Why yes, I would like a shrouded, flying, double striking 15/15 with trample and lifelink.
Sholux
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Nice side-board matereal against slivers.
Volcre
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Agree with what Sholux said. Would be hilarious against a Sliver Deck...
i made a nice casual combo deck with it once. flanking and bushido, so knights and samurai, then i added this and Sidewinder Sliver. worked pretty well.
sir_dwar
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
I really wish this had been Tribal- Sliver. Would have made sense, and then you could tutor for it with Overlord or Homing slivers.
Diachronos
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Could also be useful if you decided to throw some good Slivers into one of your decks.
Say you throw a few Brood Slivers into a Devour deck. Without other Slivers to damage an opponent, you'd have to use the Brood Sliver to do the damage, making him vulnerable to strong blockers and similar things. Yeah, you could give him a Whispersilk Cloak, but dropping a Hivestone to make all your creatures into Slivers gives you more choices.
Or you could throw it in with some Coat of Arms so your creatures are getting +1/+1 for every creature you control.
Tommy9898
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The only sliver I use is vampiric sliver because it can stand on its own. With hivestone out it just makes my army all the better.
Shifting Sliver to make all your creatures unblockable, useful with cards that do stuff when dealing combat damage (like the obvious example Phage the Untouchable,)
lanis01
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This works for certain non-basic lands too right? When I saw this I thought of Creeping Tar Pit and Celestial Colonnade becoming sliver creatures, getting those other sliver benefits and maybe even setting off Dormant Sliver and Sliver Legion.
stille_nacht
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
am i the only one thinking about the new eldrazi cards? i mean 0/1s arent threatening, until they become 3/4 double strikers with flying....
Novox_Prayer
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
no your your not the only one thinking add eldrazi. i mean forget the tokens for a sec, and imagine Emrakul( who is ridiculus its self) with trample, vigilance, frenzy 1, double strike, and "this creature cant be blocked except by two or more creatures". then toss in ghostflame sliver to balence out All is Dust.
MindSculptor
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
EDH?
Polychromatic
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
A nicely costed little tribal piece.
Ancient_Mossdog
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Its a card with alot of potential for sure, Green/White Saproling/Sliver deck would be pretty wicked alright. Sinew, Muscle, Might, Hivestone, +saproling producers such as Fists of Ironwood to pump out the numbers. It is however, as someone said, card disadvantage, straight up you want to get that card fast and get it into play, so you want to run multiple copies generally, and as such is just deadweight after the first hits the battlefeild.
SunshineTheBlond
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
Clearly what you wanted to do was give Akroma more abilities.
Flying, First Strike, Vigilance, Trample, Haste, Protection from Red and from Black?
Hah! How about Flying, Flanking, Double Strike, "Lifelink", Vigilance, Trample, Haste, Protection from Colors
Akroma, Angel of Slivers can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Akroma, Angel of Slivers gets +1/+1 if you control a swamp : Regenerate Akroma
Better yet? Screw that, Progenitus.
Overkill? Nonsense, it's not overkill till my opponent cries!
Atali
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Hivestone's best use is for turning hordes of otherwise generic creatures into Slivers. Squirrels, Saprolings, Soldiers, Rats, animated lands, Spawnwrithes.
SirMalkin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Yeah, I'm sideboarding 1-2 of these for my local shop's Tribal tournament, which banned Goblins, Merfolk, Elves, and Humans as selectable tribes, but left in Slivers.
I personally used this in my sliver deck just to turn Nacatl War-Pride into a sliver.....
ObsessedAddict
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I have this sideboarded because one of the local MTG players around my area goes slivers. The expression on his face the first time I plopped it down and he realized that I was getting every benefit of his Slivers was hilarious.
high_tide_niv
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i just use artificial evoulution. elves
penguinmage25
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
what an awesome card makes me laugh
orisiti
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Totema *faceplam* It does work with artificial evolution... artificial evolution says nothing about whether it's target targets or not. Playing around with that idea, i really want to make a sliver/ ally deck with a few of these and an artificail evolution or two. Have one hive stone that makes all my allies slivers, another that makes all my slivers allies.
I have tried to make decks that use this offensively and effectively, but they usually become quite convoluted. On particularly fun piece of combo work with it is acidic sliver + fungal sliver + mycoloth.
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
*edit* Derp.
Gako
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Is it stuck in a giant bear trap? Being a sliver is no fun.
KokoshoForPresident
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hahaha! Die, sliver deck!
agentvirgo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I wanted to do so many things with this card.
I made a deck that pumped out Elf/Forest/Saproling/Sliver tokens, but clearly I should have thrown in a Basal Sliver or two so I could tap those tokens for G and then sacrfice them for BB.
Missile_Penguin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Every card in Time Spiral was a throwback to at least one previously printed card.
This card references Slivers, a creature type which has appeared in several magic sets and are a creature type where nearly every single member grants abilities to other members.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Used to be a good counter to sliver decks. But now with m14, not so much anymore.
Dragasm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I once went against a squirrel/sliver hybrid deck that used these. I had a sore backside and an irrational fear of rodents after that game.
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Absolute slam pick in Time Spiral limited. Didn't draft all Slivers? Well, now everything else you have gets boosted too.
Comments (34)
Say you throw a few Brood Slivers into a Devour deck. Without other Slivers to damage an opponent, you'd have to use the Brood Sliver to do the damage, making him vulnerable to strong blockers and similar things. Yeah, you could give him a Whispersilk Cloak, but dropping a Hivestone to make all your creatures into Slivers gives you more choices.
Or you could throw it in with some Coat of Arms so your creatures are getting +1/+1 for every creature you control.
Flying, First Strike, Vigilance, Trample, Haste, Protection from Red and from Black?
Hah! How about Flying, Flanking, Double Strike, "Lifelink", Vigilance, Trample, Haste, Protection from Colors
Akroma, Angel of Slivers can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.
Akroma, Angel of Slivers gets +1/+1 if you control a swamp
Better yet? Screw that, Progenitus.
Overkill? Nonsense, it's not overkill till my opponent cries!
Gotta watch out for Sliver Overlord if I use this, though.
It does work with artificial evolution... artificial evolution says nothing about whether it's target targets or not.
Playing around with that idea, i really want to make a sliver/ ally deck with a few of these and an artificail evolution or two. Have one hive stone that makes all my allies slivers, another that makes all my slivers allies.
I have tried to make decks that use this offensively and effectively, but they usually become quite convoluted. On particularly fun piece of combo work with it is acidic sliver + fungal sliver + mycoloth.
I made a deck that pumped out Elf/Forest/Saproling/Sliver tokens, but clearly I should have thrown in a Basal Sliver or two so I could tap those tokens for G and then sacrfice them for BB.
This card references Slivers, a creature type which has appeared in several magic sets and are a creature type where nearly every single member grants abilities to other members.