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Artifact Creature - Sliver | Artifact Creature - Sliver | ||
[[Absorb]] 1, [[Defender]], [[Double strike]], [[First strike]], [[Flanking]], [[Flash]], [[Flying]], [[Frenzy]] 1, [[Haste]], [[Lifelink]], [[Poisonous]] 1, [[Provoke]], [[Reach]], [[Shadow]], [[Shroud]], Sliver[[cycling]] {{3}}, [[Trample]], [[Vigilance]]. | [[Absorb]] 1, [[Deathtouch]], [[Defender]], [[Double strike]], [[First strike]], [[Flanking]], [[Flash]], [[Flying]], [[Frenzy]] 1, [[Haste]], [[Indestructible]], [[Lifelink]], [[Poisonous]] 1, [[Provoke]], [[Reach]], [[Shadow]], [[Shroud]], Sliver[[cycling]] {{3}}, [[Trample]], [[Vigilance]]. | ||
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.<br> | At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.<br> | ||
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This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.<br> | This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.<br> | ||
This creature can't be blocked except by Slivers.<br> | This creature can't be blocked except by Slivers.<br> | ||
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a | This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp.<br> | ||
This creature gets +1/+1 for each other Sliver in play.<br> | This creature gets +1/+1 for each other Sliver in play.<br> | ||
This creature is colorless. | This creature is colorless. | ||
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{{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. | {{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<br> | Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to target creature or player.<br> | ||
Whenever this creature attacks, defending player loses 1 life.<br> | |||
Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life.<br> | Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life.<br> | ||
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.<br> | Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.<br> | ||
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Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it.<br> | Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it.<br> | ||
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, you may draw a card.<br> | Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, you may draw a card.<br> | ||
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {{2}}.<br> | |||
When this creature enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact or enchantment.<br> | When this creature enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact or enchantment.<br> | ||
When this creature enters the battlefield, you may [[Fateseal]] 1.<br> | When this creature enters the battlefield, you may [[Fateseal]] 1.<br> | ||
When this creature enters the battlefield, draw a card.<br> | When this creature enters the battlefield, draw a card.<br> | ||
When this creature enters the battlefield, you may exile target creature an opponent controls until this creature leave the battlefield.<br> | |||
Sacrifice this creature: Add {{b}}{{b}} to your mana pool.<br> | Sacrifice this creature: Add {{b}}{{b}} to your mana pool.<br> | ||
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14/12 (15/13 if you control a Swamp, or | 14/12 (15/13 if you control a Swamp, or 110/108 if <c>Sliver Legion</c> is on the battlefield and you control a Swamp.)<ref>{{askref|November|9|2006}}</ref>}} | ||
==Alternate Printings== | ==Alternate Printings== | ||
Revision as of 04:45, 20 July 2014
This page contains trivia information regarding slivers.
Mana cost
The converted mana costs of sliver creature cards range from 
to 
. There are eight slivers with converted mana cost . Groundshaker Sliver is the only sliver with converted mana cost .
Four slivers cost WUBRG. Those slivers are Sliver Queen, Sliver Legion, Sliver Overlord, and Sliver Hivelord.
Color
Through Magic 2014, There are 15 white slivers, 12 blue slivers, 12 black slivers, 15 red slivers, 15 green slivers, 3 artifact slivers, and 18 multicolored slivers.
Power/Toughness
Power and toughness of slivers range from 1/1 to 7/7 and are always printed equal. There is only one sliver with power and toughness 4/4 and only the three legendary slivers have power and toughness 7/7. There is no sliver with power and toughness 6/6.
Subtype
There are 4 slivers with another subtype; the other subtypes are fungus, illusion, mutant, and spirit.
Metallic Sliver
| “ | If I had one of each sliver in play, what would the stats of my Metallic Sliver be? | ” |
Alternate Printings
The following cards have received additional printings featuring alternate art:
- Bonescythe Sliver was made available with alternate art by Brad Rigney as a promo-card for the Xbox version of Magic 2014 / Duels of the Planeswalkers
- Megantic Sliver was made available with alternate art by Lucas Graciano as the prerelease promo for Magic 2014
- Hive Stirrings was made available with alternate art by Johann Bodin as a launch promo for Magic 2014
Sixteen cards originally printed in the old card frame were reprinted in Premium Deck Series: Slivers featuring the new card frame and a foil finish: Acidic Sliver, Armor Sliver, Barbed Sliver, Brood Sliver, Clot Sliver, Crystalline Sliver, Heart Sliver, Hibernation Sliver, Metallic Sliver, Muscle Sliver, Quick Sliver, Sliver Overlord, Spectral Sliver, Spined Sliver, Victual Sliver, Winged Sliver. In addition to being printed in the new card frame for the first time, it is notable that many of these cards had not been available in a foil finish before.
Sliver tokens
Three different versions of the 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token have been printed:
- Magic Player Rewards token with art by Tony Szczudlo
- Magic 2014 token with art by Igor Kieryluk
- League token with art by Vincent Proce
1/1 colorless Sliver creature tokens are produced by:
1/1 colorless artifact Sliver creature tokens named Metallic Sliver are produced by:
On Non-Sliver Cards
Slivers are referred to either visually or textually on these non-sliver cards:
- Disenchant (Tempest)
- Interdict
- Sphere of Resistance
- Riptide Replicator
- Uncontrolled Infestation
- Stabilizer
- Hivestone
- Sliversmith
- Vedalken Æthermage
- Hive Stirrings
The Sliver Queen has been depicted on two Vanguard cards:
- Sliver Queen, Brood Mother, printed in 1998 for Vanguard Series 3
- Sliver Queen, made specifically for MTGO in 2009, available only digitally