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Sliver Gravemother
Legendary Creature — Sliver · {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red/Blue/White commander
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to Slivers you control.
Each Sliver creature card in your graveyard has encore {X}, where X is its mana value.
Encore {5} ({5}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
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What Sliver Gravemother actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Keyword · encoreencore
- AbilityEach Sliver creature card in your graveyard has encore {X}, where X is its mana value.
What a Sliver Gravemother deck needs
Plays as sliver typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
- sliver creatures (its text counts them)
The Sliver Gravemother deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 30× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 9× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Sliver Gravemother
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Galerider Sliver1 mana
- Striking Sliver1 mana
- Virulent Sliver1 mana
- Sidewinder Sliver1 mana
- Cloudshredder Sliver2 mana
- Crypt Sliver2 mana
- Crystalline Sliver2 mana
- Diffusion Sliver2 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Aftermath Analyst2 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Six3 mana
- Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Azorius Signet2 mana
- Boros Signet2 mana
- Dimir Signet2 mana
- Izzet Signet2 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Golgari Signet2 mana
Combos with Sliver Gravemother
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sliver Gravemother is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Sliver Gravemother + Intruder Alarm + Cloudshredder Sliver + Manaweft Sliver + Basal Sliver82 decks
- Sliver Gravemother + Intruder Alarm + Cloudshredder Sliver + Gemhide Sliver + Basal Sliver81 decks
- Sliver Gravemother + Intruder Alarm + Firewake Sliver + Manaweft Sliver62 decks
- Sliver Gravemother + Intruder Alarm + Firewake Sliver + Gemhide Sliver61 decks
- Sliver Gravemother + Intruder Alarm + Heart Sliver + Manaweft Sliver + Basal Sliver45 decks
- Sliver Gravemother + Intruder Alarm + Heart Sliver + Gemhide Sliver + Basal Sliver44 decks