What are Slivers? [MTG Lore]

I have Sliver Queen and the rest. I love my sliver deck. I love playing it at my LGS for Commander on FNM -- and have all the players bond together in community love, harmony and unity to DESTROY ME stat! I tell people that I seldom win, but I make the nicest enemies.

that sliver queen is a offical reprint or you did it by yourself?

Slivers are awesome

my favorites are:
1: Slivers
2: eldrazi
3: phyrexians
4: beasts(ikoria)

so my edh deck is slivers, with kozilek, urabrask, illuna, and nethroi

edit: forgot an s and a ), and my pet commander is the first sliver(and the planned wincon is happily ever after)
Edit: misspelled two names

Wow we have that in common slivers wer my first love in the game and are still my favorite to this day

Slivers, Infect and Eldrazi - Annihilation are deck builds I'll immediately scoop in EDH.

makes me wonder where the Grave Mother lands in the Sliver ranks

I still remember the beatdown i experienced when I went up against an oldschool sliver deck. essence sliver+ brood sliver=boned.

This is a deck structure I picked up recently, I kinda feel in love with them in the past when I had a friend in high school who played em. It’s been a fun time playing them overall, ending up making a commander deck using Morophon as it’s commander.

my first true deck was a Sliver one, discovered by opening a pack and finding a foil Screeching Sliver that I even have today! The very concept of "sharing is caring" truly hooked me, making me fall in love with this game, as well as the concept of "TAP" carried by the harmonious Gemhide Sliver. Then, it began.
I've built lots of tribal decks (Elves, Soldiers, Goblins, Angels, Wizards, Defenders, Cats, Myr, Fungus) as well as synergies-based ones (my beloved Affinity, Proliferate, mud-jank combos, Izzet Control old-style, Elves&Bigs, monored big pingers, both monoblack and Orzhov death&reanimate, Upkeeps, Naya Elemental, Boros equip, Boros attack, Selesnya tokens, Landfall, Simic +1/+1), looking for ways to produce (in)finite-state machines Like Sliver Queen + Basal + a hasty one + anyone that can tap (Gemhide, Psionic+Ward, Screeching, Magma, etc) .
This enriched me, forging the fantasy necessary for both embrace and fuel back an university path in Computer Science

Been playing since 95. I remember going to a mall id never been to before and seeing Stronghold JUST released. Bought a pack, pulled a Sliver Queen lol

new slivers are ugly as fuck lol

I LOVE SLIVERS EVER SINCE I STARTED MAGIC IN 2015 I FELL IN LOVE WITH SLIVERS AN HOW THEY LOOK AN THEIR ABILITIES THO MOST PEOPLE HATE THEM I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THEM. MY FAVORITE SLIVER WILL ALWAYS BE THE SLIVER OVERLORD HE IS MY COMMANDER IS MY DECK I LOVE HIM I BOUGHT HIM IN 2015 WHEN HE WAS $20 now he is $40 an I spent a lot of time gathering as many slivers as I could I will always love my slivers they are my #1 favorite and most prized deck

I prefer overlord as my Commander but I started in 2009 and absolutely fell in love with slivers if you ever want to swap lists lemme know

Sliver Gravemother!

The most powerful tribe in the multiverse! Ive loved the Insect creature type since Hornet Queen!

Imagine them as a DND campaign

I discovered Slivers back with the Legion set and fell utterly in love with them! Won my share of games with the deck I had built, and I was very proud of it. Sadly it's now lost to time

How did the Slivers get to Shandalar?
Actually we don't even know their original plane for sure. The Phyrexians "found" them and bred them, but it doesn't actually answer anything about their origins. For all we know Shandalar might be their home plane!

Now that the New Phyrexian invasion has begun, I wonder of the Slivers will come into contact with their old masters again. I wonder if the New Phyrexians could be able to compleat them this time...

During the Time Spiral days, i notoriously ran a sliver deck that used Hivestone and saproling generating cards to make huge sliver armies. Still one of my favorite jank decks to this day :)

Try Shrines, Shrines are fun too... For you, anyway... roflmao. Fair warning, good luck making it fast, effective or competitive, without sacrificing a multitude of shrines, just to get "tHe BeSt OnEs".... 🙄

I hope someone sees this comment but who would win in a fight MTG's Slivers or Halo's Flood?

You sound like a bad “zefrank” impersonator

When I hear the world “slivers”, the image that comes to mind is that of “sligs” and “scrabs” from Oddworld, except they’re all magical and taking glam-shots. This video clears all that up. They’re more like a magical version of the Tyranids. Slivers apparently have a hive mind nearly identical in function to that of the tyranids.
If a scrab from Oddworld starts taking Facebook glam shots, you better run for your life because that’s a sliver.

Hands down my favorite creature in the mtg lore and world. I learned the game on a sliver deck, saw how beastly they are, got into commander, and now I can't play my $2k sliver deck because I'll just be targeted out of existence. It's a good time lol

The first deck that I have that I can call my own is a Sliver deck!

When I first seen slivers in 1997, I immediately thought they look like xenomorphs. I'm a big science fiction fan so seeing a creature type in MTG that looked like the iconic xenomorph made me instantly want to play them. To this day, I still run slippers when they show up in sets regardless of how powerful they will be in that set

The onslaught block was incredible for tribalism. My all time favorite are the soldiers and clerics from that time. My casual legacy deck still runs quite a few onslaught block soldiers.

when i was introduced to the newer slivers i was really disappointed with the "only slivers you control". I've played with slivers for nearly ten years and the one unifying aspect was that all slivers are apart of the swarm even opposing hives. but now they are just like any other creature... takes all the fun out of battling other slivers even if it does make it a lot easier to win. guess that's why I'm casual mtg player. I'm thinking of putting a personal ban on the slivers with that style of abilities. but that hivelord sure is tempting... even if it's nowhere near as good as my overlord.

I still remember my first encounter with slivers. I got gifted a Muscle Sliver by a friend and loved the design and Lore. My deck building with them started with the sliver Premium deck and afterwards I began collecting them all. Even during the times I stopped playing mtg I still kept my collection up to date and recently I started my journey to create a sliver commander deck.

M14 m15 slivers are just predators

I love the creatures. I started when Tempest came out and was super jealous when my friend got the queen in a booster lol

I love silvers, I call them my children. I've collected one of each. I build decks on the spot by asking what colors I am restricted too.

One thing I have learned playing slivers, it's a fast way to get your teeth kicked in at the table. Even more so if you don't warn people. I normally only crack slivers out when I ask politely and let people know I'm about to unleash everything.

They are sooooo much fun, the perfect engine, new combo's just, occur so easy, new attack methods, new strategy's, board wipes is just cleaning the canvas to build up again.

So they exist on Dominaria, on Phyrexia and Shandalar?

Why do you talk like that?

Why do you talk like that

Finally, some Cephalid lore. One question: HOW exactly did Karn communicate with the Sliver Queen? Does she just speak human language?

The delivery and cadence of this video almost put me to sleep

Owning a Mint 10 Sliver Queen is my life goal.

Slivers are probably one of the best examples of flavor and mechanics meeting in harmony.

I've been playing magic for decades and slivers we're always my favorite tribe..
Once my friends and I got into edh I knew I had to get all the lords and transform my old deck into a commander variant, little did I know everyone would absolutely despise it 😂
Every game ended up becoming either 3v1 or 4v1(But I'd still usually win) so I ended up dismantling it out of pitty lol Now I'm going to put it back together in order to torment the LGS..
To anyone who might read this with a sliver deck try out Morophon the boundless as a commander, it's extremely smooth

Manaweft + Cloudshredder + Queen + Intruder Alarm = Infinite Slivers

Imagine slivers becoming more like humans and then imagine if they start include humans into the hivemind with their own evolution. It's not hard to think that a sliver could become either the greatest threat or ally in the multiverse. They contend with phyrexians easily and could evolve to achieve the goal phyrexians fail to do (achieve physical perfection) They could fully utilize thier shape-shifting hivemind to learn how to ignite a planeswalker spark. Once one sliver learns how they all become an extraordinary planewalker just by evolution. Thier canon backstop making them just another species affected by the history of magic. We've yet to see how slivers react to God like threats other than urza it would be great to see slivers competing against phyrexians, eldrazi, Urza again, and finally Nicol Bolas.

Hands down onslaught has the best creature type spells

How do you not have more subs

my favorite deck i own with overlord as the commander

Great video, great information. But your narration style is too over the top imo. Quite grating to my ears lol. No offense meant. But if I were you I'd dial the intensity back

As another player who isn't super good but fell in love with slivers quickly after playing, this video is super cool! Had a lot of lore I didn't knowN