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The First Sliver

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

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Sliver spells you cast have cascade.

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What The First Sliver actually does

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

• Keyword · cascadecascade
• AbilitySliver spells you cast have cascade.

What a The First Sliver deck needs

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

• sliver creatures — expensive ones cascade into cheaper ones
• a sliver curve that tops out high (each Sliver spell cascades)

The The First Sliver deck plan

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

• 6× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
• 30× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 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 The First Sliver

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.

Combos with The First Sliver

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

• The First Sliver + Yomiji, Who Bars The Way + Morophon, The Boundless + Ashnod's Altar6 decks
• The First Sliver + Yomiji, Who Bars The Way + Morophon, The Boundless + Blasting Station5 decks
• The First Sliver + Yomiji, Who Bars The Way + Morophon, The Boundless + Phyrexian Altar5 decks
• The First Sliver + Yomiji, Who Bars The Way + Morophon, The Boundless + Goblin Bombardment5 decks
• The First Sliver + Yomiji, Who Bars The Way + Morophon, The Boundless + Thermopod3 decks
• The First Sliver + Yomiji, Who Bars The Way + Morophon, The Boundless + Altar Of Dementia3 decks

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