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Venser's Sliver

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Venser's Sliver

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Guest57443454
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
One of the many slivers that padded Time Spiral Block...
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0) (5 votes)
Likely the worst of all slivers.

A plain 3/3 artifact creature for 4 wouldn't have been powercreep either, even though it had a useful creature type in this case.
At least i can't remember Hill Giant ever having been a big threat.
Forgeling
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (9 votes)
Metallic Sliver's Retarded cousin. Hivestone is actually more worth playing.
sliverlord5000
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0) (4 votes)
ugh (shudders)
Zage
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (3 votes)
Sad that this doesn't cost 4 mana. A waste of a card like this.
KarmasPayment
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (4 votes)
I lulzed. It does seem like the inbred cousin of metallic sliver. If I could give it less than half a star, I would.
AXER
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
In an All Color & All Sliver deck... he's okay; I wouldn't say he actually sucks though.
Tommy9898
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0) (2 votes)
I could see it having a mana cost of only 3, not like it would have broken the game or anything and it would match up much nicer with Metallic Sliver.

zeyette
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (7 votes)
Cool flavor though.
Vedalken_Arbiter
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
A 2/2 for 3 would have been much better. Or even a second rate ability like turning your slivers into artifact creatures would have been better.
Yoto32
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (10 votes)
Cut Venser some slack guys, he's clearly not a master artificer yet.
Richard_Hawk
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0) (6 votes)
Wonder what an Urza's Silver would be like. Poor Venser.
Hand_Bannana
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (9 votes)
venser dont quit your day job. volrath has you beat in the sliver making department.
masonthekiller
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (3 votes)
Come on, guys. It still pulls the super-fun-time antics that all other slivers deliver. It just doesn't return the favor.
landboysteve
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Might be one of the worst cards ever printed. You have to ask...why do they print cards like this? Boggles the mind.
keiyakins
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0) (7 votes)
Venser... you need to make another one of these. Then let it fall into Phyrexian hands.

Please?
ClockworkSwordfish
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (3 votes)
Well, the slivers would have recognized and rejected too good an artificial sliver. Venser's a genius!
Boakes2047
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (2 votes)
5/5 for the beautifully designed flavor.
RowanKeltizar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Venser has a pet Sliver!?
Drewid
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this should have been legendary. just because.
ssdkkjlks
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
LtFoeHammer
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (3 votes)
I throw a couple of these in my affinity for artifacts deck in case of surprise slivers. It's expensive, but at 3/3 has higher base stats than most slivers. It's still not -good-, but as an anti-sliver it's passable.
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh Venser... Why couldn't you make something useful instead?
dlgn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
And this is a perfect example of why Venser wasn't able to withstand the Phyrexians.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
@Richard_Hawk...I know I probably shouldn't...but I've been waiting for an excuse to run this design by some people, so here goes:

Urza's Sliver 0
Mythic Rare
Artifact Creature- Sliver Ally
Slivers you control have:
T: If target player controls a creature with Infect, sacrifice your soul, then search your library for any number of spells and cast them without paying their mana costs.(You lose the match, but at least you destroyed Phyrexia. Unless they play Stifle. In which case you sacrificed your soul for nothing. But you're Urza so you don't care. It's Phyrexia. THEY MUST DIE FOR WHAT THEY MADE YOU DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
1/1

Bang. Makes Ornithopter and Memnite cry in their obsoleteness. Probably the most broken creature type that can still make any flavor sense. xD
DoragonShinzui
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
He's the thing about Venser's Sliver: It doesn't benefit other slivers. Now, why might that be relevant?

Think about it for a sec. When would you not want to benefit other slivers?

Got it yet? When you're going against a Sliver deck. Venser's Sliver is a 3/3 Sliver which does nothing to other slivers and can be put in any other sliver deck. While I certainly agree he'd be fine at 4, or as a 4/4, he's not a one star critter people. Chimney Imp is a one star creature.
Missile_Penguin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 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 from a previously printed card.

This Sliver is referencing a previous sliver, Metallic Sliver, only larger. The Venser referenced here is Venser, Shaper Savant, a powerful artificer who, like Volrath the Fallen before him, was attempting to use an artificial sliver to study the way the sliver hive mentality worked. During the events of Time Spiral block, his planeswalker spark ignited; he would later appear as Venser, the Sojourner.
azure_drake222222
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Worst sliver ever.
ProsperoNight
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card slots into the sideboard of any deck to help deal with Slivers... what's not to like? This isn't your win-con, it's your opponent's tech!!
bobw123
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Veldalken_Arbiter You got your wish in Magic 2014 in the form of Silver Construct. It still sucks though