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Sliver Overlord

Sliver Overlord

Legendary Creature — Sliver Mutant · {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red/Blue/White commander

{3}: Search your library for a Sliver card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {3}: Gain control of target Sliver. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
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What Sliver Overlord actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Sliver Overlord deck needs

Plays as sliver typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Sliver Overlord deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Sliver Overlord

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.

Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Birds of Paradise1 mana
  6. Delighted Halfling1 mana
  7. Elvish Mystic1 mana
  8. Fyndhorn Elves1 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Galerider Sliver1 mana
  2. Striking Sliver1 mana
  3. Virulent Sliver1 mana
  4. Sidewinder Sliver1 mana
  5. Cloudshredder Sliver2 mana
  6. Crypt Sliver2 mana
  7. Crystalline Sliver2 mana
  8. Diffusion Sliver2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Path to Exile1 mana
  3. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  4. Reality Shift2 mana
  5. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  6. Pongify1 mana
  7. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  8. Resculpt2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Neoform2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  6. Wrath of God4 mana
  7. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  8. Chain Reaction4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  4. Skullclamp1 mana
  5. Sylvan Library2 mana
  6. Curiosity1 mana
  7. Wizard Class1 mana
  8. Black Market Connections3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  5. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  6. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  7. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  8. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Azorius Signet2 mana
  3. Boros Signet2 mana
  4. Dimir Signet2 mana
  5. Izzet Signet2 mana
  6. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  7. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  8. Golgari Signet2 mana

Combos with Sliver Overlord

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sliver Overlord is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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