Slivers! needs help

Skribbletron · Joined: 12 Mar 2011 Posts: 3

Lands
4 Mountain
2 Forest
5 Bayou
2 Coastal Tower
2 Arcane Sanctum

Creatures
1 Sliver Queen
1 Sliver Legion
1Sliver Overlord
2 Sinew Sliver
2 Might Sliver
2 Shifting Sliver
2 Winged Sliver
3 Virulent Sliver
3 Heart Sliver
3 Muscle Sliver
4 Gemhide Sliver
3 Homing Sliver

Spells
4 Worldly Tutor
2 Hive Mind
4 To Arms!
2 Coat of Arms

I know This deck needs a bit of work. mostly with the land cards. I could use some good suggestions for some double land cards but keep some of the basics just in case...... and maybe some Dark Rituals? (i mean its a 3 free dark mana to use for converted mana cost.)

R3wind · Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 1386

I am going to say this. Slivers needs to be UWg.

4 Crystalline Sliver
4 Muscle Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
4 Wing Sliver

Use this as a base.

turdferguson · Joined: 19 Jan 2011 Posts: 7

lol five bayou

magicman85 · Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 549

Yeah Crystalline Sliver is a pimp. I like Talon Sliver a lot too (first strike). I don't like your spells except for Coat of Arms. Maybe drop some Lead the Stampede or Swords to Plowshares in.

JeZeus · Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 224

Sliver's use to kick ass, before Merfolk more or less took over. Anyhow I would recommend playing something as close to this as you can afford to make. You can get shock lands for cheaper and probably scrounge together a manabase . . but I mean if you got 5 bayou your gold anyhow, just trade those suckers in lol. Easy to use cheaper counter spells as well. Uhmm if you are just playing it on mws then I might just use this list.. . or play Merfolk.

4 Crystalline Sliver
4 Muscle Sliver
4 Plated Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
3 Winged Sliver
Creatures [19]
4 AEther Vial
4 Brainstorm
3 Standstill
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
4 Swords to Plowshares
Spells [23]
4 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
3 Tropical Island
4 Tundra
3 Mutavault

R3wind · Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 1386

The thing that I love about Vial Slivers is that Crystalline Sliver is just like another counterspell. You Vial in a Crystalline Sliver in response to removal. Also Winged Sliver in response to blockers.

warpg8 · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 54

R3wind · Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 1386

Yes that is what I should have typed. That's what I get for posting from my Blackberry.

magicman85 · Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 549

Why Brainstorm over Preordain?

R3wind · Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 1386

Brainstorm is better when you have Fetch lands. Though I think that the list should be playing Misty Rainforest over 4 Polluted Delta.

JeZeus · Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 224

Brainstorm is sooo much better then preordain. . I do not even think the two are comparable. The fact brainstorm is an instant should be reason enough to use it over preordain alone. All so, it works very well in tandem with Standstill and your Vial's. If you have Standstill in play you aren't going to play Preordain and allow your opponent to draw 3, instead you wait until they pop your Standstill draw your 3, use your instant speed card draw to draw 3 more bla bla get tons of cards for your next turn. Or you have vial out and no creatures/not the creature you want, so EOT brainstorm, yay I found a sliver, play said sliver EOT with Vial. I think in legacy you should almost never play cards and tap out on your own turn if you can avoid it ^_^

As for the list . . it's my ancient sliver list that I just copied to notepad and pasted on here. I haven't played it in probably going on two or so years now.. Misty rainforest would be a better fetch land to use, although it doesn't really matter since both of the dual lands are islands. If you wanted to sneak a basic land or two into the deck that might be ideal. I think the main reason Slivers went out of style is because of the decks reliance on dual/non-basic lands. The alternative tribal deck of Merfolk just has a more reliable land base. Being able to run basic lands, while still being consistent is a pretty big boon for legacy deck.