Sliver/Trivia
This page contains trivia information regarding slivers.
Mana cost
The converted mana costs of sliver creature cards range from 1 to 7. There are eight slivers with converted mana cost 1. Groundshaker Sliver is the only sliver with converted mana cost 7.
Four slivers cost WUBRG. Those slivers are Sliver Queen, Sliver Legion, Sliver Overlord, and Sliver Hivelord.
Color
Through Magic 2015, There are 16 white slivers, 13 blue slivers, 13 black slivers, 16 red slivers, 16 green slivers, 3 artifact slivers, and 19 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 5 slivers with another subtype; the other subtypes are construct, 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:
- Template:Cardlink token with art by Tony Szczudlo
- Template:Cardlink token with art by Igor Kieryluk
- Template:Cardlink 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:
- Change of Heart
- Crossbow Ambush
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- Dreamcatcher [3]
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- Hive Stirrings
- Hivestone
- Interdict
- Riptide Replicator
- Riptide Survivor
- Sliver Hive
- Sliversmith
- Sphere of Resistance
- Stabilizer
- Uncontrolled Infestation
- Vedalken Æthermage
- Warped Researcher
The Sliver Queen
The Sliver Queen was the first ever tournament legal card with mana cost WUBRG.
The Sliver Queen has been depicted on two Vanguard cards:
- Sliver Queen, Brood Mother, printed in 1998 for Vanguard Series 3
- Sliver Queen Avatar, made specifically for MTGO in 2009, available only digitally
The Sliver Queen is on the Reserved List and will not be reprinted as a regular tournament legal card, but has been reprinted in Commander's Arsenal as a oversized foil card.