Of course you can kill it when you want to...
How many slivers are there with a sacrifice ability?
Eltervag
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(4 votes)
Nice to use against a Sliver deck.
Asarkun
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
one of the best sliver out there. Really good engine for card advantage. As RKay said, you have enough Sliver with a sacrifice Ability and depending on your deck you may not even need that.
g3rman1a
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Use it with Frenetic Sliver, so it works either way, with the possibility of it coming back.
sliverlord5000
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(4 votes)
great card advantage especially with 2 of em
KrosanGardener
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
yaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Slightly subtle references to other cards!
Rikch
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
one question: if i have this in play and 5 other slivers (so, 6 slivers in play) and i play from my hand a sliver, how many cards i will draw?
Digit
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
To Rikch: Only one. It doesn't say, "whenever a sliver...", it says, "Whenever this permanent...".
The combo with this is hibernation sliver so you can bounce it back whenever you want to attack.
Callipsa
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Sliver Queen + This = 2: Draw a Card Give them haste, and gemhide sliver and you have slivers who can pay for themselves to make more (with heartstone you can draw your deck for free).
This card is the worst sliver ever. It's like the Sliver Goblin Pyromancer.
Tommy9898
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
Think outside the box people. I use it in a blue green control deck along with only gemhide sliver. I get card advantage, tempo advantage, and it pis,ses off the sliver players. Whats not to love?
Tap your slivers to play a sliver, draw another sliver. repeat until you've got most fo your deck on the table.
PolskiSuzeren
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
My old sliver deck fell in love with this card. power out a cryptic gateway early on with gemhide sliver and drop this. intruder alarm helps out nicely. I could normally draw and play every sliver in my deck by turn four.
T1: random one-drop sliver T2: gemhide, tap your one-drop for another one-drop T3: cryptic gateway T4: intruder alarm, tap down two slivers to play something, draw, untap, repeat.
Ohhh, fun times.
IshubarashI
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I actually slipped 2 of these in a U/G deck I was messing around with some time ago, played my friends sliver deck. Half way through the game after he had about 9-10 double striking trampling poisonous slivers with vigilance and shroud, I told him, "Hey, I got a present for ya... enjoy your defenders" and slapped this bad boy down
He was a pretty mad bro. He didn't have any method of getting rid of it so we played for about 10 more turns until I drew my Evolution Vat and finally made some of my creatures big enough to handle his slivers. It was a pretty intense
Th3_Dark_On3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's useful if you can kill it when you want to. @ RKay: OVER 9000!!! @ TheTraitorKing: This guy is amazing. Seriously.
bluemaxx
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
those who call this sliver a crap doesn't know the full potential of this card in a sliver deck.
Gaffy00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Woahhh..that art..
Cool.
high_tide_niv
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
artificial evolution. take that elves
Atali
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Who would ever want to kill it? Just blast them to death with Psionic Sliver.
LordRandomness
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(5 votes)
Time to Donate a Hivestone! (protip: the creatures don't come into play as slivers, so they don't have the EtB effect. Still get defender though).
It's also handy for sliver "toolkits": small groups of slivers in a non-sliver oriented deck. Multiples mean multiple draws, and if you've got a way to bounce them...
Finally, it can hose slivers if protected properly. A dedicated sliver deck will probably try to win by attacking you with slivers, so as long as you can stop them killing the dormant one...
phyrexiantrygon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Rikch
One. Its not like an allies effect.
DarkbladeWraith
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just crying out to be played with Mana Echoes - get the draw just right and you can play a different sliver for each land you have and THEN have a big pile of colourless mana to use when you run out of lands.
Which lets you play Mycosynth Lattice followed a whole bunch more Slivers! Brilliant!
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's also quite fun to throw in against a Sliver deck. When they haven't planned it, and can't find a way around it, you can almost force your opponent to concede right there.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I once managed to drop most of my deck with one.
Give it some toughness and it combos with Psionic Sliver pretty well.
Todris052
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This + Aluren + any of the sacrifice slivers (Mnemonic, for example) = win! Especially awesome if you have Heart sliver
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not meant against sliver decks, you're thinking Plague Sliver. This is meant to provide you with overwhelming card advantage, and then once you're poised for the kill, you just killspell him.
Kingreaper
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@LordRandomness: With Hivestone they do in fact enter the battlefield as slivers, the ability is a continuous effect, not a triggered one.
aegisaglow
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Jungle Barrier, in sliver form.
Shiizu
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
There are at least 3 kinds of sliver decks that pop up: Crystalline, Magma and Dormant. This guy is THE sliver draw engine. Great if you're just pinging them to death. Or if you area planning on saccing him.
Battleguild
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
By far my favorite sliver. Used it in RUG slivers with Wild Pair , Cloudstone Curio , Gemhide Sliver , Firewake Sliver and a bunch of one drop slivers with Psionic Sliver or Bust as finishers. Using To Arms! as a way to keep untapping your "lands" and thin your deck, you could pretty much win consistently on turn 4 or 5. (Back then it didn't feel like they ran 500 2cmc kills spells and you only really had to worry about Wrath or Damnation. Deck-building was also fun back then when Time-Spiral Block was Standard legal.)
DacenOctavio
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
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 card, with nearly all the gold slivers referencing past enchantments.
This sliver is referencing Jungle Barrier from Apocalpyse.
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Slivers and blue/green control are the perfect marriage.
Comments (33)
Of course you can kill it when you want to...
How many slivers are there with a sacrifice ability?
The combo with this is hibernation sliver so you can bounce it back whenever you want to attack.
Give them haste, and gemhide sliver and you have slivers who can pay for themselves to make more (with heartstone you can draw your deck for free).
Tap your slivers to play a sliver, draw another sliver. repeat until you've got most fo your deck on the table.
T1: random one-drop sliver
T2: gemhide, tap your one-drop for another one-drop
T3: cryptic gateway
T4: intruder alarm, tap down two slivers to play something, draw, untap, repeat.
Ohhh, fun times.
He was a pretty mad bro. He didn't have any method of getting rid of it so we played for about 10 more turns until I drew my Evolution Vat and finally made some of my creatures big enough to handle his slivers. It was a pretty intense
@ RKay: OVER 9000!!!
@ TheTraitorKing: This guy is amazing. Seriously.
Cool.
It's also handy for sliver "toolkits": small groups of slivers in a non-sliver oriented deck. Multiples mean multiple draws, and if you've got a way to bounce them...
Finally, it can hose slivers if protected properly. A dedicated sliver deck will probably try to win by attacking you with slivers, so as long as you can stop them killing the dormant one...
One. Its not like an allies effect.
Which lets you play Mycosynth Lattice followed a whole bunch more Slivers! Brilliant!
Give it some toughness and it combos with Psionic Sliver pretty well.
Especially awesome if you have Heart sliver
This sliver is referencing Jungle Barrier from Apocalpyse.