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"Sliver Swarm" Precon Upgrade Guide | Commander Masters

Commander Masters preconstructed decklists have been revealed and with it comes another round of my precon upgrades. We're going to do a thorough analysis of each deck, hig
its goals and how well it accomplishes them, check out its deckbuilding fundamentals, identify its strongest and weakest cards, then use all that information to create an optimize
upgrade path!

Check out all the Commander Masters precon upgrades here:

Sliver Swarm
Planeswalker Party
Eldrazi Unbound
Enduring Enchantress

Sliver Gravemother Rukarumel, Biologist

$ 11.69 3.64 tix $ 3.17 1.95 tix

Sliver Swarm is a five-color deck that is all about Slivers, a creature type where each member brings a unique buff to all your Slivers, from granting them all flying with Galerider Sl
drawing cards with Synapse Sliver. Slivers are the ultimate toolbox creature type because the tribe can do pretty much anything and it's up to you to decide what specific archety
want to focus on when constructing a Sliver deck.

The archetype that Sliver Swarm focuses on entirely is Combat: the deck provides tons of cards that greatly increase its effectiveness in combat, from dishing out extra damage w
Bonescythe Sliver to providing evasion with Cloudshredder Sliver to drawing card on combat with Synapse Sliver. All the Slivers and their support cards lend themselves to comb

So if you want a Sliver deck that focuses on beating face, then Sliver Swarm is the deck for you!

Capricious Sliver Lazotep Sliver

$ 0.80 0.54 tix $ 1.25 2.01 tix

The Precon List

Before we talk upgrades, let's take a look at the stock list to see what we're working with:
Sliver Swarm by Niuttuc
Tabletop

$ 96.11 31
3 Mythic, 32 Rare, 35 Uncommon, 19 C

Format: Commander
User Submitted Deck
Deck Date: Jul 17, 2023
Archetype: Sliver Gravemother

Stats My Price Tabletop Arena

Commander
1 Sliver Gravemother
Creatures (43)
1 Galerider Sliver
1 Striking Sliver
1 Clot Sliver
1 Cloudshredder Sliver
1 Crypt Sliver
1 Crystalline Sliver
" Deck Page Diffusion Sliver
1
1 Gemhide Sliver
# Visual View
1 Hatchery Sliver
1 Hibernation Sliver
$ Stream Popout
1 Manaweft Sliver
% Edit Copy 1 Quick Sliver
1 Sentinel Sliver
& Download 1 Sinew Sliver
1 Two-Headed Sliver
' Registration PDF 1 Venom Sliver
1 Winged Sliver
( Export to Arena 1 Blade Sliver
1 Blur Sliver
) Set as Current
1 Firewake Sliver
1 Harmonic Sliver
* Print Proxies
1 Hollowhead Sliver
1 Lavabelly Sliver
1 Necrotic Sliver
1 Realmwalker
1 Spiteful Sliver
1 Syphon Sliver
1 Bonescythe Sliver
1 Bonesplitter Sliver
1 Capricious Sliver
1 Cleaving Sliver
1 Lazotep Sliver
1 Regal Sliver
1 Shifting Sliver
1 Taunting Sliver
1 Brood Sliver
1 Might Sliver
1 Rukarumel, Biologist
1 Sliver Hivelord
1 Synapse Sliver
1 Constricting Sliver
1 Megantic Sliver
1 Titan of Littjara

Spells (11)
1 Farseek
1 Nature's Lore
1 Three Visits
1 Cultivate
1 For the Ancestors
1 Harsh Mercy
1 Windfall
1 Crippling Fear
1 Decimate
1 Distant Melody
1 Cleansing Nova

Artifacts (7)
1 Sol Ring
1 Arcane Signet
 1 Fellwar Stone
1 Pillar of Origins
1 Herald's Horn
1 Icon of Ancestry
1 Vanquisher's Banner

Enchantments (1)
1 Descendants' Fury
Lands (37)
1 Ash Barrens
1 Canopy Vista
1 Cinder Glade
1 Command Tower
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Flood Plain
3 Forest
1 Frontier Bivouac
1 Grasslands
1 Irrigated Farmland
2 Island
1 Jungle Shrine
2 Mountain
1 Mountain Valley
1 Mystic Monastery
1 Nomad Outpost
1 Opulent Palace
1 Path of Ancestry
2 Plains
1 Prairie Stream
1 Rocky Tar Pit
1 Sandsteppe Citadel
1 Savage Lands
1 Scattered Groves
1 Seaside Citadel
1 Secluded Courtyard
1 Sheltered Thicket
1 Smoldering Marsh
1 Sunken Hollow
2 Swamp
1 Unclaimed Territory

100 Cards Total

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Sliver Swarm lives up to its name with a complete focus on Slivers: I count 40 sliver creatures in the deck plus 3 cards that can count as slivers like Titan of Littjara, and then 9
cards that care about slivers. For our Combat subtheme, 27 cards either care about combat damage happening (Descendants' Fury) or buff attacking (Sentinel Sliver).

When Sliver Gravemother was first revealed a month or so before the rest of the deck list I assumed this would be a Sliver Reanimator deck since face commanders always tie int
main themes of the precon, but it turns out I was wrong: in fact the Gravemother is the only graveyard recursion in the entire deck! The Gravemother is simply there to provide reac
deck, reanimating token copies of your slivers for one last beatdown. So if you were looking for a Sliver Reanimator deck this ain't it, but if you want Sliver Combat then heck yeah
for you!

Choosing Our Commander

 Sliver Gravemother Sliver Hivelord

$ 11.69 3.64 tix $ 3.30 0.15 tix

There's three potential commanders to lead the deck: the new face commander Sliver Gravemother, the other new option Rukarumel, Biologist, and the reprint option Sliver Hiv

The only commander that makes no sense to lead the stock list is Rukarumel: this is a really cool and open-ended commander that acts as an Arcane Adaptation in the command
the thing is that Rukarumel herself is the only non-Sliver creature in the entire deck! So she's great in a deck built from scratch around her, but not here.

Between Sliver Gravemother and Sliver Hivelord, both are acceptable commanders but I gotta give it to the Gravemother: encore is a powerful mechanic and even though the pr
really built around it outside of some discard or sacrifice slivers it's still a great way to get more value out of your deck, and the buildaround potential is huge. Whereas the Hivelo
very good card all on its own and protection is something Slivers desperately want as board wipes are the bane of their existence, the buildaround potential is far less interesting

So for this guide we're sticking with the Gravemother!

Sliver Gravemother

$ 11.69 3.64 tix

Analyzing the Precon & Identifying Weaknesses

Now that we've glanced at the stock list and settled on our commander, let's take a closer look at the deck itself to identify what parts benefit the most from upgrades.

As I often explain in my Budget Commander articles, every time I build a rough draft of a deck, I make sure I have a certain ratio of mana, interaction, card advantage, etc. This gives
reference point to compare to the deck and see which areas may need improvement. My general ratio is:

50 mana; lands and ramp, usually a 37–13 split

10 card draw; cards that net you 2+ cards in hand
8 targeted removal; split between creature / artifact / enchantment removal and countermagic
3 board wipes; creature-light decks might want one more, creature-heavy decks might want one less
2 graveyard recursion
2 flexible tutors; higher budgets I recommend more tutors
1 graveyard hate; since you need to keep Graveyard decks honest
1 finisher; something that can win games the turn you cast it without too much setup

That's always my starting point, which is then tweaked to suit the individual deck's strategy and further tweaked with playtesting. I always find it immensely useful to figure out s
ways to improve the deck in question.

Let's see what the rough ratios are for Sliver Swarm and how it compares. I count:

48 mana; 37 lands and Gemhide Sliver, Manaweft Sliver, Farseek, Nature's Lore, Three Visits, Cultivate, Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, Pillar of Origins, Herald's H
 11 card draw; Realmwalker, Capricious Sliver, Regal Sliver, Synapse Sliver, Titan of Littjara, For the Ancestors, Windfall (lul), Distant Melody, Herald's Horn, Icon of Ances
Vanquisher's Banner
4 targeted removal; Harmonic Sliver, Necrotic Sliver, Constricting Sliver, Decimate
3 board wipes; Harsh Mercy, Crippling Fear, Cleansing Nova
1 graveyard recursion; Sliver Gravemother
0 flexible tutors;
0 graveyard hate;

The ratios here is okay: we have lower than average mana sources but the deck has an aggressive curve, and there are 2 notable ramp bombs Manaweft Sliver and Gemhide Slive
interaction package is underwhelming, not much to consistently stop opponents, but in fairness the deck is trying to solve problem players by just killing them instead of removin
stuff. There are a LOT of ways to protect our creatures from Clot Sliver to Crystalline Sliver, ways to go over blockers with Winged Sliver, and ways to do enough damage like
Sliver. Does that mean this deck doesn't need interaction? No, but at least it's coming up with an answer.

Harmonic Sliver Manaweft Sliver

$ 0.29 0.03 tix $ 0.63 0.03 tix

Slivers And Spikes

Sliver Swarm is a tricky precon to upgrade because a lot of the most obvious upgrades have spiked like crazy. The cause of this is because 1) Slivers are incredibly popular 2) we ha
Slivers in a main set for a decade and reprints are few and far between, so supply is low 3) Sliver Swarm did a bad job reprinting Sliver staples.

High demand + low supply = cards like Sliver Hive spiking to $50!!!!
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Don't worry though, Sliver Hive is absolutely not worth its asking price! It's literally an Unclaimed Territory 99.99% of the time as spending 6(!) total mana to make a 1/1 Sliver to
such an awful rate that it might as well not even be on the card -- if you regularly activate it then I'd recommend rebuilding the deck, maybe add some more card draw so you have
things to spend your mana on. Like sure, it's a good mana-fixer for our deck and I would've recommended it had it been like $4, but $50?!?! Get outta here!

So in honor of Sliver Hive's absurd new price thanks to speculators, I'll show you how good you can make this precon with a $50 budget!

$50 Upgrade
Disclaimer: Card prices are volatile and may be different at the time you read this article.

The best and most obvious Sliver upgrades are the flashy 5C ones: Sliver Overlord, Sliver Legion, Sliver Queen, and The First Sliver. Of these, I actually think Sliver Legion is the b
deck since it works so well for our Go Wide Combat plans, turning even a modest army into a lethal attack. It also works incredibly well with our Sliver Gravemother since if we e
Legion we get three 7/7 hasty attackers that are giving all of our slivers +3/+3 for each other sliver in play -- with just Sliver Gravemother and encored Sliver Legion that's a 15/1
Gravemother plus 3x 16/16 hasted Legions! That's some super dead opponents!
 Sliver Legion

$ 29.50 0.02 tix

But my single favorite sliver upgrade is actually going under the radar and currently goes for just 25 cents: Homing Sliver turns all the slivers in our hand into instant-speed sliver
Like imagine if you said that your deck runs a 25 cent Survival of the Fittest, that's how absurd Homing Sliver is! Tutors are especially important in Slivers because slivers do litera
everything but the trick is to find the sliver for any situation, which we solve with tutors. It works so well with Sliver Gravemother too as we can discard slivers to then encore wit
commander!

The same logic applies to Pyre of Heroes, a dirt-cheap Birthing Pod that allows us to tutor up the slivers we need for any given moment while putting encore targets in our gravey

Homing Sliver Pyre of Heroes

$ 0.35 0.03 tix $ 1.16 0.03 tix

Since the deck is severely lacking recursion -- Sliver Gravemother is our only source that I don't recommend being reliant on -- I decided to add the two best options for the deck,
Patriarch's Bidding and the absolutely busted Eerie Ultimatum. Then we add Kindred Discovery the absolute best draw engine for our combat-focused tribal deck and I also beef
lands a bit with the remaining trilands, most notably Murmuring Bosk which counts as a Forest to be tutored up with Three Visits and the like!

Kindred Discovery Eerie Ultimatum

$ 8.95 0.15 tix $ 7.41 0.02 tix

Additions:

"Sliver Swarm" $50 Adds Tabletop

$ 68.12 0
by BudgetCommander 2 Mythic, 11 Rare, 2 Uncommon, 3 C

Format: Free Form

User Submitted Deck
Deck Date: Jul 19, 2023

Stats My Price Tabletop Arena

Creatures (6)
1 Muscle Sliver
1 Predatory Sliver
1 Homing Sliver
1 Sedge Sliver
1 Sliver Legion
1 Thorncaster Sliver

Spells (3)
1 Patriarch's Bidding
" Deck Page
1 Eerie Ultimatum
1 Ruinous Ultimatum
# Visual View
Artifacts (1)
$ Stream Popout
1 Pyre of Heroes

% Edit Copy Enchantments (1)

1 Kindred Discovery
& Download
Lands (7)
' Registration PDF
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Battlefield Forge
( Export to Arena
1 Brushland
) Set as Current 1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Karplusan Forest
* Print Proxies 1 Murmuring Bosk
1 Yavimaya Coast

18 Cards Total

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Cuts:

"Sliver Swarm" Cuts by BudgetCommander

Tabletop

$ 12.04 4
1 Mythic, 5 Rare, 8 Uncommon, 4 C

Format: Free Form

User Submitted Deck
Deck Date: Jul 20, 2023
 Stats My Price Tabletop Arena

Creatures (8)
1 Two-Headed Sliver
1 Winged Sliver
1 Blade Sliver
1 Blur Sliver
1 Hollowhead Sliver
1 Lavabelly Sliver
1 Spiteful Sliver
1 Rukarumel, Biologist

" Deck Page Spells (2)

1 Windfall
# Visual View
1 Decimate
$ Stream Popout Artifacts (1)
1 Icon of Ancestry
% Edit Copy
Lands (7)
& Download
1 Ash Barrens
1 Flood Plain
' Registration PDF
1 Grasslands
( Export to Arena 1 Irrigated Farmland
1 Mountain Valley
) Set as Current 1 Rocky Tar Pit
1 Sheltered Thicket
* Print Proxies
18 Cards Total

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We cut the weakest slivers for better ones: Blade Sliver out, Predatory Sliver in for example. Other upgrades like Decimate out for Ruinous Ultimatum. The swaps here are all pre
straightforward.

Here's how the deck looks with the upgrades added:

"Sliver Swarm $50 Upgraded Tabletop

$ 162.61 29
by BudgetCommander 4 Mythic, 38 Rare, 29 Uncommon, 29 C

Format: Commander
User Submitted Deck
Deck Date: Jul 20, 2023
Archetype: Sliver Gravemother

Stats My Price Tabletop Arena

Commander
1 Sliver Gravemother

Creatures (41)
1 Galerider Sliver
1 Striking Sliver
1 Clot Sliver
1 Cloudshredder Sliver
1 Crypt Sliver
1 Crystalline Sliver
" Deck Page Diffusion Sliver
1
1 Gemhide Sliver
# Visual View
1 Hatchery Sliver
1 Hibernation Sliver
$ Stream Popout
1 Manaweft Sliver
% Edit Copy 1 Muscle Sliver
1 Predatory Sliver
1 Quick Sliver
1 Sentinel Sliver
1 Sinew Sliver
 1 Sinew Sliver
& Download Venom Sliver
1
1 Firewake Sliver
' Registration PDF
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Homing Sliver
( Export to Arena
1 Necrotic Sliver
) Set as Current 1 Realmwalker
1 Sedge Sliver
* Print Proxies 1 Syphon Sliver
1 Bonescythe Sliver
1 Bonesplitter Sliver
1 Capricious Sliver
1 Cleaving Sliver
1 Lazotep Sliver
1 Regal Sliver
1 Shifting Sliver
1 Taunting Sliver
1 Brood Sliver
1 Might Sliver
1 Sliver Hivelord
1 Sliver Legion
1 Synapse Sliver
1 Thorncaster Sliver
1 Constricting Sliver
1 Megantic Sliver
1 Titan of Littjara

Spells (12)
1 Farseek
1 Nature's Lore
1 Three Visits
1 Cultivate
1 For the Ancestors
1 Harsh Mercy
1 Crippling Fear
1 Distant Melody
1 Cleansing Nova
1 Patriarch's Bidding
1 Eerie Ultimatum
1 Ruinous Ultimatum

Artifacts (7)
1 Sol Ring
1 Arcane Signet
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Pillar of Origins
1 Pyre of Heroes
1 Herald's Horn
1 Vanquisher's Banner

Enchantments (2)
1 Descendants' Fury
1 Kindred Discovery

Lands (37)
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Battlefield Forge
1 Brushland
1 Canopy Vista
1 Cinder Glade
1 Command Tower
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Exotic Orchard
3 Forest
1 Frontier Bivouac
2 Island
1 Jungle Shrine
1 Karplusan Forest
2 Mountain
1 Murmuring Bosk
1 Mystic Monastery
1 Nomad Outpost
1 Opulent Palace
1 Path of Ancestry
2 Plains
1 Prairie Stream
1 Sandsteppe Citadel
1 Savage Lands
1 Scattered Groves
1 Seaside Citadel
 1 Seaside Citadel
1 Secluded Courtyard
1 Smoldering Marsh
1 Sunken Hollow
2 Swamp
1 Unclaimed Territory
1 Yavimaya Coast

100 Cards Total

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Also to pre-emptively address some comments: one direction that you can take the upgrades is to really lean into Sliver Gravemother's encore ability and turn the deck into a str
Encore deck -- Buried Alive and Entomb cards to put slivers into your graveyard, Convergence of Dominion and Zirda, the Dawnwaker to make encore cost less (though PSA
Grounds doesn't work, I see people suggesting it but sorry no), Mondrak, Glory Dominus to double the encore tokens, Sundial of the Infinite to keep the encore tokens permanen
sounds sweet and all but you'd need to do a massive rework of this entire precon, turning it from a Go Wide Sliver Combat deck to Sliver Reanimator essentially.

Plus going all-in on a 5-Drop commander that has no built-in protection and requires you to spend additional mana to do anything seems very sus at least in my meta where inter
so prevelant, as the deck would just fall apart if Gravemother died like 2 times. So it's a cool idea but not the direction I'm taking!

Further Upgrades
The remaining good Slivers for this deck are The First Sliver, Sliver Overlord, Sliver Queen, and Magma Sliver. I don't think any other sliver creatures are worth it for this combat-
version of Slivers.

After that I would focus on the manabase: for lands you'll want the remaining 5C lands Sliver Hive, Cavern of Souls, Mana Confluence, City of Brass, The World Tree, and Reflecti
After that I would mix fetchlands with duals / triomes, the usual stuff.

Finally I would cut some of the redundant slivers for flexible tutors: you don't need Galerider Sliver and Firewake Sliver when you can just run Cloudshredder Sliver and a bunch o
tutor it up. Focus on the best sliver for each buff you want, cut the rest, and replace them with tutors like Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Bring to Light, and Wargate.

Sliver Overlord The First Sliver

$ 66.76 0.23 tix $ 33.50 0.16 tix

1 Down, 3 To Go!

Check back tomorrow for the next precon upgrade!

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Blake − ⚑
14 days ago

Can you create a deck list of the further upgrades so we know what ultimate deck will look like

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Would you consider Horned Sliver to be a good potential upgrade? Trample seems to be the only major talent not covered by a sliver in the deck that would
have a use. SpeciXcally thinking about what the Gravemother and Legion would do on a Legion encore WITH trample. Would this be worth a consideration?

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Lujikul − ⚑
2 months ago edited

The idea of encoring Sliver Legion for massive game winning buffs sounds super awesome, but there seems to be a glaring problem: Sliver Legion is a
legendary creature, and encore doesn't make the tokens nonlegendary. Reanimating it at all is still very powerful, but you'll only have one token due to the
legend rule, not three.

EDIT: I completely missed that Gravemother ignores the legend rule for slivers, my bad. Carry on.

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Maultier NL − ⚑
2 months ago

Hola - thank you for your great tips and insights! I ordered the pre-con deck. Still new to the game and I'm a bit puzzled how this exactly works:
"It also works incredibly well with our Sliver Gravemother since if we encore the Legion we get three 7/7 hasty attackers that are giving all of our slivers +3/+3
for each other sliver in play -- with just Sliver Gravemother and encored Sliver Legion that's a 15/15 Gravemother plus 3x 16/16 hasted Legions!"
I assume you refer to a game with 3 opponents? In that case, if you have just Sliver Gravemother and encored Sliver, I would have thought you have a 9/9
Gravemother and 3x 10/10 Legions? What am I missing?
Thanks!

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Amau > Maultier NL
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Hello (sorry for my probably bad English)

When you have on the battleXeld Gravemother, Legion #1, Legion #2 and Legion #3 (so, 3 opponents) :
- Legion #1 gains +1/+1 for each other sliver thanks to its own ability (so +3/+3 in the example).
- BUT ALSO +1/+1 for each other sliver thanks to Legion #2's ability (so +3/+3 more).
- AND +1/+1 for every other sliver thanks to Legion #3's ability (so another +3/+3).

For a total of +9/+9.

And this is repeated for every sliver in the example, so each one is +9/+9.

I think you've forgotten about the cumulative effect of each Legion Sliver's abilities.

Hope it helped.

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Perfectly clear! Thanks!

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Geronimohoo − ⚑
2 months ago

I think there is a mistake. In the last paragraphe, you write that

you put Galerider sliver out from the deck. But it is in you "deck list
upgraded". But there is no Wiged sliver. Did you meant you would put out
Wiged sliver instead of Galerider sliver ? (because Galerider is less
manacost to play and it affects only your slivers for 1 blue mana. This
is a lot better than the winged no) ?

(I hope that my english is not too bad and you understand what I said).

Thank you so much for you article. It is very nice.

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Tomer Abramovici Mod > Geronimohoo

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That was more of an example but yes, when you have enough tutors you can just rely on Cloudshredder for your haste + gying instead of running
weaker sliver options that do the same thing.

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Rob Mitchell − ⚑
2 months ago

Check back tomorrow for next upgrade? Get delayed?

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 Tomer Abramovici Mod > Rob Mitchell
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Sorry yes had to do all of next week's work in advance for my vacation. Next precon guide goes up today!

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Rob Mitchell > Tomer Abramovici

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Legend, enjoy your vacation :)

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Mammet − ⚑
2 months ago

Going off this upgraded list, what would you recommend removing for The First Sliver and Sliver Overlord?

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Tomer Abramovici Mod > Mammet

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2 months ago

Clot Sliver and Descendants' Fury.

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Bob Boberson − ⚑
2 months ago

In the ratios you said there are four board wipes, but only list three.

As for Sliver Hive and the other cards that spiked hard, anyone you seriously wants them: be patient, they'll drop by the end of the year (most likely, it's
happened every time they've spiked like this). More a question of how much how fast.

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Tomer Abramovici Mod > Bob Boberson

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Fixed thanks.

You're right, you can wait for prices to settle. Or just proxy them.

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Oliver Updyke − ⚑
2 months ago

Why is there 18 cards taken out but only 17 cards added?

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Tomer Abramovici Mod > Oliver Updyke

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Fixed thanks, I cut one less land

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Ricky Miller − ⚑
2 months ago

Honestly its almost certainly going to be cheaper to build a stock sliver beatdown deck with sliver legion as your commander once all these draft chaff
slivers are reprinted than to throw good money after bad upgrading this big-whiff precon. That said, I'm more curious on your individual card choices.
Should a creature beatdown deck be taking turns 2 and 3 off to ramp, and does the archetype among the most famous for building an archenemy-worthy
board state need its own wraths? IMO, with a personal coat of arms in the command zone, its best to try and maximize plan A of just steamrolling people.

Tl;dr: negate, boros charm, closer to 50 slivers total > cultivate, herald's horn, ruinous ultimatum

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Tomer Abramovici Mod > Ricky Miller

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Yeah you can always buy singles and build from scratch

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Umbacano − ⚑
2 months ago

I don't know much about Commander, but Muscle Sliver should deXnitely be in the deck.

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Tomer Abramovici Mod > Umbacano

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2 months ago

Updated the list thanks

 Updated the list thanks

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Micah Freilinger − ⚑
2 months ago

I think this list needs a training grounds

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Tomer Abramovici Mod > Micah Freilinger

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2 months ago

Training Grounds doesn't work with encore, it only affects creatures on the battleXeld not in the graveyard.

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Shook > Tomer Abramovici

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20 days ago

and what about convergence of dominion or less powerful embalmer's tools for this purpose ?

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