Big Slivers

Tribal decks are the bread and butter decks of the casual players arsenal. Tribal decks are very flavorful, easy to build and most of all lots pf fun to play! The deck I am debuting today is no exception.

The deck below, so aptly named "Big Slivers", is another in the long line of casual sliver decks. Slivers are the wuintessential bad boys of the Magic realms. They gang up on every one and get stronger the more of them are in play. Not only do they get stronger, they also grant one another their abilities.

Once the well oiled sliver machine gets rolling it is very hard to stop. Slivers do everything well, and they everything even better as their nunbers swell. While this deck may not be the of the same lightning fast speed of sliver decks of old, it is quite resilient and when all of the pieces are in play, it is insanely hard to prevent being run over. All of this without an overrun!

These insectoid-esque beasts, reminiscent of the "prawns" in District Nine, first entered the world of magic in Stronghold, Tempest and then made a brief comeback in Onslaught Block (Legions and Scourge). When the Time Spiral block rolled around they once again reared their collective ugly heads. While not as insanely fast or overpowered like their predecessors, these new slivers brought a whole bunch of new abilities to the table.

This decks was built to experiment with these new slivers while stomping on my opponent's collective faces. After all this is what Slivers do best!.

This is in essence a five color green deck, with green being used to produce the different colors of mana, as well as providing some much needed card draw.

#	Card name	Comments
1	Reflex Sliver	A 2/2 sliver for 3G which grants all slivers haste.
4	Homing Sliver	A 2/2 sliver for 2R which gives all other slivers Sliversycling 3. He himself has the very same Sliversycling 3.
2	Fungus Sliver	A 2/2 sliver for 3G which says all slivers gain that whenever it is dealt damage you may put a +1/+1 counter on it.
2	Two-Headed Sliver	A 1/1 sliver for 1R which says that all slivers gain the ability that they each cannot be blocked except by two or more creatures.
1	Firewake Sliver	A 1/1 for 1RG that has haste, and says that each sliver gains: 1, sacrifice this creature: target sliver gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
2	Virulent Sliver	A 1/1 sliver for 1 which grants all other slivers Poisonous 1. Whenever an opponent has 10 or more poison counters they lose the game. Just another way for the sliver army to defeat their enemies.
2	Harmonic Sliver	A 1/1 for 1GW that says all sliver have that when this creature enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact or enchantment.
4	Bonesplitter Sliver	A 2/2 sliver for 3R. All slivers get +2/+0. Simple. Effective. Sweet!
2	Spined Sliver	A 2/2 sliver for RG that says whenever a sliver gets blocked it gets +1/+1 for each creature blocking it. Thanks for the help Two-Headed Sliver!
1	Psionic Sliver	A 2/2 sliver for 4U. All slivers have tap: this creature deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 3 damage to itself. Psionic Blast on a stick!!!
1	Fury Sliver	A 3/3 sliver for 5R. All slivers have double strike. Bring on the pain!!!
3	Gemhide Sliver	A 1/1 sliver for 1G that says all slivers have tap: add 1 mana of any color to your mana pool. Birds of Paradise for the sliver generation.
2	Opaline Sliver	A 2/2 sliver for 1WU that says all slivers have that whenever a sliver becomes the target of a spell or abaility an opponent controls you may draw a card. More cards equals more slivers.
1	Frenzy Sliver	A 1/1 sliver for 1B that says all sliver have Frenzy 1. In other words, whenever a sliver is not blocked it gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
4	Vampiric Sliver	a.k.a. Sengir Sliver, a 3/3 sliver for 3B that says all slivers have whenevr a creature dealt damage by this creature is put into a graveyard this turn, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Kills 'em and gets bigger in the process ... as if the world needed bigger slivers.
4	Rites of Flourishing	Mana acceleration and card draw all in one neat package. Each player draws an extra card and may play an additonal land during each of their turns. I feel the need for speed ... er ... slivers.
2	Prismatic Omen	1G is all you require to, with the help of this Shadowmoor gem, turn all of your lands into every basic land type in addition to their other types. Five color ooh-rah.
9	Forest
5	Swamp
5	Mountain
2	Island
1	Plains

NB: On principal, and everything that is good and sacred in this world, I REFUSE to play with Crystaline Sliver. I also refuse to put in a link for that card. I despise it nearly as much as Daring Leap ... but that is another story!