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use this with basal sliver to create an infinite cycle of creatures coming into play and hitting the graveyard, which you can combine with other related effects such as Deathgreeter (gain 1 life for each) and Scavenger Drake (it gets +1/+1 counters for each). You could give them tap abilities and haste with other slivers as well (they can tap before being sacrificed).

Good Combo: Basal Sliver, HeartStone. Infinite Slivers. For {1} put a sliver into play sacrifice it for {b}{b}, then put two into play, and so on.

Alternatively, you could use Gemhide Sliver, Heart Sliver, and HeartStone for infinite slivers and potentially infinite mana.

This card is just so good. Go look at creatures that have the ability to make creature tokens. At 2 colourless mana - with no other associated costs - for a 1/1, Sliver Queen remains one of the best (if not THE best) in this category. The only direct comparison is Ant Queen, and this was not printed until 2009, eleven years later.

Oh, and the tokens are slivers. I can't stand the tribe, but this card deserves respect. Hail to the Queen!

Sliver Queen + Wild Growth and Earthcraft.
Very nice combo! Also you can play Sliver Queen using Defense of the Heart or Elvish Piper.

so many combos with this

Combo with Basal Sliver, HeartStone, and Magma Sliver for an infinite army of slivers with +infinity/+0.

Ashnod's altar + Heartstone. Enjoy your infinite slivers. You can add an Altar of dementia, Banefire, etc to have your win condition.

So they are going to reprint this and thats why they dont include this in the silver deck. Good and bad news.

By far the heart of all slivers it goes great with heartstone to spit out sliver tokens for even cheaper

Proof they'll reprint this?

Great Combo Card. The one Sliver Legend that requires you to build around it the most.

Best Card ever.
Ron Spencer rules

The combo I've always used is with Mana Echoes.

Can someone tell me, what happened to her?

the sliver queen? she died in the Apocalypse, and was never seen again. also if they printed this card in the sliver deck, well u have an infinite sliver combo right there. (heart stone, sliver queen, gemhide sliver, heart sliver) lol mmmm infinite slivers. but this is a very good card and probably the best sliver cos of the combos built around it. not to mention a 5 mana 7/7 with no draw backs except the one of every colour thing.

yes well what happened to her, in the story the Apocalypse happened and wiped out the plane. the slivers scattered and a few survived, with their hive mind gone they didn't know what to do, so they formed another hive mind which was (i think) the sliver over lord, a few select slivers melded together and formed the new hive mind. history repeats and the overlord dies and so they make a new hive mind the sliver legion. thats my understanding anyway.

out of the story, well she is just an old card. old cards just peeter out and die as people move on.

another awesome combo with this card is intruder alarm for infinite slivers it let's you untap everything when a new creature comes in play.

use this with Mana Echoes for infinite slivers

If i could give this 6 stars......i would give it 7

this card is rated higher than black lotus lol

Sliver Queen+ gemhide sliver+ heart sliver+ heartstone on the field at the same time= infinite slivers

@Ragamander
if u use that card you lose the game
you are mana burn
you pay 2 and add 1 then you pay 2 and add 2 then pay 2 add 3
and so on
you cant use alll mana and you lose

A: mana burn doesnt exist
B: pay one (-1) plus two (+2) pay one (-1) pay one (-1) plus two (+2) is how it would go, no mana burn in the first place anyway.


Forget about combos, the pure token generating power is enough xD, i mean with say a bonesplitter and a muscle sliver, those are 4/2s you are pumping out, and to be fair, by the time you had sliver queen you'd have other slivers too :D

looks sort of like flaahgra from Metroid Prime

The first 5-color card/creature, and surprisingly powerful too, unlike most of the gold cards printed before her.

Live for the Swarm!

@thrallallmighty: 2 things
1: mana burn doesn't exist any more, WOTC took it out in M10
2: Mana Echoes says you may add X to your mana pool, so once you've gotten out, idk, say 20 billion slivers you can just say, "alright i'm not adding 20 billion to my mana pool" although you technically just could use it for Banefire and have a ton of fun.

All I've got to say is Sliver Queen, Gemhide Sliver, Intruder Alarm.

Mana Echoes. Now go nuts.

sliver queen vs. ant queen dual deck

This card is ever part of Sliver decks.

God save the Queen!

The wonderful thing about slivers
is slivers are wonderful things
their bodies are made out of sinew
they've got muscles on top of their wings
they're hasted, trample, shroud, and shadow
plus one
plus one
plus one
but the most wonderful thing about slivers is
there...
is more than one!
post this on all sliver cards :)

its always nice to pump out 4/4 double strike trample tap for mana flying shadow haste tokens for 2 (after all, they are sliver tokens)

She's so awesome, she got two Vanguard cards.

Unless she got reprinted in a core set, which even that I highly doubt, there's no reason story-wise to ever reprint it. I don't think WOTC will ever run another sliver cycle again; the slivers we already have are broken as all getout. I can only imagine a deathtouch sliver, infect sliver, wither sliver... /shudder

No. Just, no. Sliver queen is great, but I hope and pray she never becomes T2 legal again.

@Deathtamoor
you forgot to add in Coat of Arms or Sliver legion to that combo so that you have infinite strength infinite slivers ;)

Did anyone here notice that she's on the Reserved List, and can't be reprinted? (well, so long as wotc follows through with it...)

Basal Sliver + Gemhide Sliver + Heart Sliver + this = infinite slivers and infinite mana
and don't try to tell me it's unlikely just because it's 4 cards, we're talking about slivers here.
Add in Sliver Legion just for fun, but your opponent has probably forfeited by now

pure awesomeness!!!!!!

@Palutena
Actually, because sacrificing the tokens made by the queen would only result in the necessary amount of mana to summon those same slivers back, you wouldn't be able to get unlimited slivers with only those four cards... you COULD do that however if you had those four cards AND a Heartstone making it so the slivers only took one mana to summon and they could sacrifice for two, then yes you could have unlimited mana and slivers :D

@Nott_Scott: Of course Basal+Queen isn't an infinite combo. That's why Palutena mentioned Gemhide and Heart, too: tap for mana before sacking the creature, and you're up one of any color each cycle.

Heartstone + Ashnod's Altar = simple infinite combo

Also, one of the first creatures to break the standard CC and P/T ratio without a drawback (apart from 5 colours)

I bow.

Sliver Queen + Gemhide Sliver + Heart Sliver + Heartstone. Infinate slivers. Add a Sliver Legion to get infinte numbers of ??/?? creatures out.

I don't understand why they didn't just make her a sliver to start with instead of that weird "Sliver Queen is a sliver" clause, lol.

edh! :D

Must obtain!

Training Grounds! If she is too mana intensive, Prismatic Omen/Gemhide Sliver! BOW DOWN BEFORE ME LESSER SUBTYPES!

I have no respect for anyone who runs her as a general, it's too easy.

Of course you dont run her as your general... you run sliver overlord and search for her instead.

Well a 7/7 for five mana is good. With Harmonic Sliver out, this card can destroy artis and enchants for two mana while putting out 1/1 bodies. I'd say this card deserves to have such a high rating.

The main reason people use her as a general isn't usually for sliver effects.

I know one regular at my local comic store who uses her, and his deck is just a toy box of good spells and good legendary's.

He doesn't use Mana Echoes. He doesn't use Ashnod's Altar. He doesn't even use Training Grounds.

He doesn't because he already knows that Sliver Queen is amazing, and she doesn't need any help in being amazing. He also thinks it's cheap and lame to do that.

See, sometimes you should play EDH NOT to lose friends. Don't play Ashnod's Altar with Ghave. Don't enchant Curiosity onto Niv-Mizzet. Don't consider Exquisite Blood with Sanguine Bond. Just because you could, doesn't mean you should.

I remember when I first started playing, I tried to make a Sliver deck (this was during Legions, when they came back.) Obviously, I considered Queenie over here. She was 20 bucks at the time... her price has probably gone up significantly since then.

Yeah, this is a pretty sought after card, whether to boost your slivers or to get some infinite combo.

Unfortunately, they can never reprint her: She's on the Reserved List. :(

I love this card i have it for my sliver deck. I only need Mana Echoes and i am good to go. I would have infinite 1/1 sliver tokens at turn six.

She's a planeswalker. There's no valid argument against this being the case.

Think about it... There's Sliver Queen, happily clicking and chattering away in her nest, tending to her babies, guarding the legacy artifacts, etc.
Volcano her nest was on erupted. Sliver Queen almost died.
Sliver Queen's traumatic experience ignited her spark, causing her ascension.
Left Rath before the volcano completely killed her.

She's out there... watching, waiting, and now has a spark, meaning she can use extremely powerful magic. It's only a matter of time before she comes out of nowhere with an army of several billion hasted, untargeteable, indestructible, unblockable, and double striking little buggies that can claw their way out of graveyards.

We're doomed. Not even Bolas could handle that ****.

For people saying that this is too cheap and easy to use as a general, there are far more effective things you can do with the broken format of edh
Zur can draw 15 cards off of necropotence the turn after he swings
My personal edh teysavcan go infinite turn 3 and kill all players on the table ( that's god hand realistically it can go off turn 6 consitently killing all damage)
That all being said I don't feel she's that powerful really as an edh general sliver overlord is a much worse having the ability to tutor every turn

Aluren + Recycle + Hibernation Sliver + 2 Soul Warden = Lay down your entire Library on the battlefield, less a few cards. Fill Library full of <3 CMC slivers (Heart, Winged, Musle, Gemhide, Basal) and soul wardens = win. Then you can drop her on the field right before you attack for some insult to injury action.

What the fuck... maybe they thought a casting cost would make her fair? No, no, that's impossible. This is just stupidly good.

@dlgn: because "Legend" used to be a creature type instead of the Supertype "Legendary"

Unlike "Sphinx of the Steel Wind" she doesn't even bother asking that question. You. Just. Die.

This card needs a new page on Gatherer for the Commander Oversized card. :/ Oh, well.

Suggested Flavor Text for any sneaky-under-the-table reprints a.l.a. Oversized cards:

"God save us from the Queen." --Famous Last Words nobody ever heard.

It took me ages to realize, but the random colors on her are actually tiny slivers of each of the five colors. And when I say tiny, I mean normal sized slivers. They are just tiny in comparison...

Sliver Sliver.

When I got ahold of one for $5.00 after Legions released, my sliver deck became public enemy number one at the school lunch table. Thank god I had the foresight to put the deck into sleeves after she showed up. Crystal Quarry and Cryptic Gateway were my solutions to playing her in a GW deck.
Ah, nostalgia...

Step 1: Be an idiot with a Sliver deck.
Step 2: Have 1 copy of each Sliver on the battlefield.
Step 3: Put a token onto the battlefield for {2}.
Here's that token's text box:
Artifact Creature - Sliver
Absorb 1, Defender, Double strike, First strike, Flanking, Flash, Flying, Frenzy 1, Haste, Lifelink, Poisonous 1, Provoke, Reach, Shadow, Shroud, Slivercycling {3}, Trample, Vigilance.
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.
This creature can't be countered.
This creature has protection from the color chosen for by Ward Sliver.
This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.
This creature can't be blocked except by Slivers.
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a swamp.
This creature gets +1/+1 for each other Sliver in play.
This creature is colorless. If this creature would be put into a graveyard, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead.
{0}: If this creature is on the battlefield, flip a coin. If you win the flip, exile this creature and return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. If you lose the flip, sacrifice it.
{1}: This creature's type becomes the creature type of your choice in addition to its other types until end of turn.
{2}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
{2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
{2}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
{2}: Regenerate this creature.
{2}, Tap.gif: Regenerate target Sliver.
{B}: Regenerate this creature.
Pay 2 life: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
{T}: Regenerate target Sliver.
{T}: Target Sliver gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Slivers on the battlefield.
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
{T}: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
{T}: Tap target permanent.
{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 3 damage to itself.
{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
{T}: Name a card. Target opponent reveals a card at random from his or her hand. If it's the named card, that player discards it. Play this ability only during your turn.
Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to target creature or player
Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may put a 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token into play.
Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn is put into a graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
When this creature enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact or enchantment.
When this creature enters the battlefield, you may Fateseal 1.
When this creature enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Sacrifice this creature: Add {B}{B} to your mana pool.
Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target player or Sliver.
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Target Sliver gets +2/+2 until the end of the turn.
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player discard a card.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Target player discards a card at random. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: That creature deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 4 life.
{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target permanent.

104/102

This is the first rare that I opened when I started playing. Even though I've only played it a few times, I always pause when I see it in my binder. After all these years, the feeling of awe when I look at this card never fades. Never mind it's the first 5C color card released. This card can only be 5/5 from me.

Her Majesty. This is the reason to do five colours. Lovely in every way. Folks like to see her come out. Blue mages feel obligated to counter. She's still pretty sitting in the graveyard. 5/5

I traded a couple of Mutavaults a while ago for one of these lovely ladies - THE sliver tribal icon. I'm still polishing up my sliver deck and haven't quite gotten her to go infinite yet with any of my several combos (Purphuros, Mana Echoes -which oddly enough I got from a random grab bag from my local store right when I was getting serious about making my slivers, Phyrexian Altar, blur/heart, manaweft/gemhide, etc. she's the queen, combos galore!). Even so, she's still so fun just to put into play and people really do like to see the Queen appear. I always get a little excited when I see her in my hand, and if you're playing slivers right (they're slivers, not hard to do) then by the time you draw or are able to play big mother she should have a decent little welcoming party from her children. Slivers are just so versatile and awesome and sometimes insanely powerful.

Hang on... sorry did I say sometimes? I meant usually. Of course, nothing but a 5/5. What's to dislike? Magic's color spectrum is certainly a humble price for such a well-known and staple card of its history.
I am very happy to have my queen and never get bored showing friends who have never played against slivers before just how quickly they can dominate the board and explode in power.

Sometimes I like to think of an infinite combo with sliver queen off the top of my head.
carnival of souls, soul warden/soul's attendant/essence warden, training grounds. That's just off the top of my head.