Shards of Alara Slivers September 18, 2008
Posted by James in : all, fake cards, reviews, previews , trackbackJust like Ravnica, Shards of Alara was a perfect opportunity to make Slivers… but Wizards of the Coast has chosen to ignore such opportunities. (Perhaps Wizards decided that Slivers are only for 5 color sets.) Nevertheless, I can show you the Majesty of the Shards of Alara slivers.
Darksteel Sliver
Nothing that unique, but it gives the new colored artifacts design a good Sliver ability that is long over due.
Grixis Sliver
This Sliver is made to look more like the monsters from one of your favorite movies.
Each shard (three color group) can get its own rare Sliver. This is a relentless sliver, with the Relentless Rat ability… except it gives every Sliver that ability. I love cumulative Sliver abilities that make it worth having more than one in play. Imagine a deck full of this card. If you control two, they both have “For each other Sliver in play with the same name, it gets +1/+1″ and “For each other Sliver in play with the same name, it gets +1/+1.” In other words, they both have the ability twice and get +2/+2. If you have 3 in play, they all get +2/+2 three times (+6/+6).
Naya Sliver
This Sliver uses the background from one of the most popular computer games.
Naya Sliver is the most awesome Sliver I can imagine. If Muscle Sliver is in play, every Sliver has “All Slivers get +1/+1,” so if you have 3 Slivers, they all get +3/+3.” What is even more important is that Naya Sliver’s ability is cumulative, so if you have two in play, all other Slivers get the ability, “All Slivers have the ability, ‘This has all abilities all other Slivers have.’”
Let’s think about how awesome Naya Sliver is:
- Let’s say you have two Muscle Slivers in play and two Naya Slivers.
- Then all your Slivers have “this has all the abilities of other Slivers” and they have “All Slivers have the ability, ‘This has all abilities all other Slivers have.’”
- Each Naya Sliver has “All Slivers have the ability, ‘This has all abilities all other Slivers have’” twice, and each Muscle Sliver has this ability once.
- So, there are six copies of Naya Sliver’s ability.
- The only other ability worth mentioning is “All Slivers get +1/+1″ and each of your Slivers have this ability 6 times because of Naya Sliver’s ability. (All Slivers have “All Slivers get +1/+1″ six times.)
- You have four Slivers with six copies of Muscle Sliver’s ability.
- 6×4=24.
- Therefore, all Slivers in play get +24/+24. Right?
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Hydralisk Sliver?? Can it have: Sacrifice ~: Put a 4/4 Lurker token with shroud and provoke into play?
Naya Sliver = excellent with the Grixis Sliver! Just what we need to crowd a textbox on MTGO with!
Hydralisk Sliver needs some kind of sliverish ability.
What about Zergling Slivers?
Hydralisk Sliver could have “All Slivers have 2BG, Sacrifice ~: Put a 4/4 Lurker token with shroud and provoke into play”
Zergling Slivers… because you get two from one egg, it should have, “All Slivers have ‘When this comes into play, if it’s not a token, it’s controller puts a token into play that’s a copy of this card.’”
only problem, plague sliver.
Player A has naya sliver and 4 other slivers
Player B has Plague sliver
Player A: I’m so lucky i take 5 damage a turn Yay!
but the possibility of might sliver/sidewinder sliver multiples makes naya sliver awesome
What about multiples of the poison sliver? Four of those in play make you get 4 poison counters per sliver that hits you.
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Maybe do a Bant sliver
-Bant Sliver- GWU
2/2
All Slivers Have Exalted
now THAT would be cool with Naya Sliver
All-4-One Sliver
7/7
Legend
All Slivers gain bands
i think slivers get overpowered and thats why wizards chose not to put them in new sets. they want new deck ideas that are challenging, fun to play against, and not making the enemy feel helpless
Slivers have been made time and time again. They will be back. Also, Slivers tend not to be too powerful. When they were made in Timespiral I don’t think Sliver decks were even competitive.
how would naya sliver work with hivestone
the examples you provide are completely ludicrous. darksteel sliver is insanely overpowered. combine it with crystalline sliver and you win. and what if you get 5 of any one sliver in play before grixis sliver is even drawn, let alone put into play? also, naya sliver makes all slivers the same to a degree which undermines the entire sliver concept. slivers are about different slivers sharing their abilities through a “hive mind,” and having one sliver that makes all slivers true clones of each other would be crazy. and the exponential growth of power illustrated by the muscle sliver example shows how ridiculous the card would be. and by the way, the math in that example is wrong. it falls short at step 3. try again bud.
ps. including slivers cards in shards of alara would have meant that slivers would have to exist in the fictional planes of alara, which they dont, simply by virtue of the creator not wanting the storyline of the alara series to include slivers.
Ray,
This post was not meant to be taken very seriously. Darksteel Sliver is the least problematic of the slivers shown here.
The storyline point is irrelevant. The story is based on the cards they make, not so much the other way around. The game designers have a job to do before the story enters the picture.
“by the way, the math in that example is wrong. it falls short at step 3. try again bud. ”
No, you tell me exactly where the math went wrong. I don’t really know for sure how it would work.
I’m pretty sure there are only slivers on two planes. So until there’s a planeswalker crazy enough to move slivers to plane to plane. We won’t see Slivers off Dominiria. For those that don’t know the other plane they were on Rath doesn’t exist anymore
I think i love you
As a girl who plays magic and love slivers, I get a lot of hate. But I LOVE the slivers you’ve designed. I wish they would have made more for shards.
Naya is down, Muscle is down. Muscle has ‘+1/+1 to all slivers’, Naya has ‘all slivers have all sliver abilities (played)’. Naya now has ‘+1/+1 to all slivers’, Muscle now has ‘all slivers have all sliver abilities (played)’. Muscle now uses ‘all slivers have all sliver abilities (played)’ to copy yet another ‘+1/+1 to all slivers’ from Naya. Naya does the same to Muscle, Muscle repeats, so does Naya, and so forth. Broken as shit, lmao.
ehh. really like this post )
im a huge fan of slivers loved them since they came out and id love to see them come back but rays right they would have to write in who,how,and why someone would be stupid enough to move slivers to alara that is a whole story in its self and that would realy screw up the stor already there but as i said i realy would love to see them back oh and Alyy i know what you mean to much hate for slivers these days
i am obsessed with slivers, they are fully AWESOME!!
i am on a quest to collect at least one copy of every sliver ever made, even the ones that aren’t very good, just for the sake of having them, but i think the three suggested here are a little ridiculous…Darksteel Sliver is unbelievably over powered, especially for such a low cost, Grixis Sliver is just lame and Naya Sliver is idiotic…bot oh how i long for the days when slivers dominated all, unfortunately i didn’t start playing until time spiral and while there were some great slivers in that block, they just weren’t as powerful as their first release…oh, and for anyone who is interested, i have discovered a method for infinite 1/1 colourless sliver tokens on turn 4, provided you get the right first hand, which is unlikely, i have so far only been able to do once by turn 4 in an actual game. all it needs is gemhide sliver, heart sliver, heart stone and sliver queen and there you go, infinite tokens on turn 4 =)
SLIVERS REIGN SUPREME!!!
well, guys…i personally am crazy about them…i also think that the post is idiotic…i totally agree with Ray…every sliver has its own power and all together dominate everything…also as SAM THE ALLUNMIGHTY said old slivers were much more powerfull than shards slivers…anyway… SAM can u tell me about the 4th round combo??
To repeat, “This post was not meant to be taken very seriously.” Yes, these Slivers are ridiculous. You probably think the post is “idiotic” because you actually think I want these to exist or something.
I have played Magic for 16 years and I have actually created and play tested 6 magic sets. I know a lot about the game design.