The First Sliver

Sliver Overlord Birthday Trivia

New • 18 Apr 2022 • Asked by rwssr • 59 Comments

Hey Mark, today is my birthday, can I get a birthday trivia factoid about either Sliver Overlord, Sliver Hivelord, or The First Sliver?

The First Sliver came about because we in a vision design meeting and we were trying to one up each other about the craziest mechanic we could grant to Slivers. The winner was cascade. Happy Birthday!
Birthday Cascade Mechanics Sliver Sliver Hivelord Sliver Overlord The First Sliver Vision Design

Birthday Trivia About Slivers

New • 18 Apr 2021 • Asked by rwssr • 41 Comments

Hey Mark, it’s my birthday today. Can I get a birthday trivia factoid concerning either: Sliver Legion, Sliver Hivelord, Sliver Overlord, or The First Sliver?

Normally, when we put Slivers in a block we put in one legendary five-color Sliver, so in Future Sight (the end of Time Spiral block), I made one based on a card I designed in Exodus that I really liked called Coat of Arms. That’s how Sliver Legion came to be. Happy Birthday!
Birthday Coat of Arms Exodus Future Sight Sliver Sliver Hivelord Sliver Legion Sliver Overlord The First Sliver Time Spiral

Reprinting Sliver Cards

New • 17 Apr 2021 • Asked by tybonel13 • 40 Comments

Do you think we could ever see The First Sliver, Hivelord, or Legion with the original card frame? We can't get them all with the crown frame because of RL, so the next best thing would be them all in the OG frame.

The Resetved List stops cards from being reprinted in any frame.
Card Frames Reprints Sliver The First Sliver

Heredity of Modern Horizons Slivers

New • 06 Aug 2020 • Asked by rwssr • 40 Comments

Hey Mark, how's your day? I have a question, are the Slivers in Modern Horizons the direct progeny of The First Sliver? Because the Modern Horizon Slivers appear to pulled from a variety of planes (Mirrodin [New Phyrexia], Tarkir, Dominaria, and Alara). I'm a Sliver fan that likes to keep my Slivers organized by which legendary Sliver they directly originate from.

Supplemental sets tend to get less story support, so I don’t think the cosmology of all the Modern Horizons Slivers was figured out.
Dominaria Mirrodin Modern Modern Horizons New Phyrexia Planes Sliver Story / Lore The First Sliver

First Sliver Design Choice

New • 02 Feb 2020 • Asked by stormtide-leviathan • 41 Comments

May I ask why the First Sliver wasn't an Elder Sliver? It seems to fit all the criteria

I don’t think anyone thought of it.
Elder Sliver The First Sliver

Sliver Hivelord Stats

New • 11 Dec 2019 • Asked by tybonel13 • 62 Comments

Why is Sliver Hivelord a 5/5 while Queen, Overlord, Legion, and The First Sliver are all 7/7s?

Genetics.
Sliver Sliver Hivelord The First Sliver

Cascade Mechanic on Slivers

New • 05 Jul 2019 • Asked by fingerofgod • 34 Comments

I was happy to see some flexibility about changes that had been made to slivers. But I'm more of a mechanical flavorist than an artistic flavorist, so this is my question: could you conceive of an excuse for printing The First Sliver with "Sliver spells have cascade"? After all, it is the FIRST sliver, so it makes some sense that it would mechanically align with the earliest printed slivers

Slivers, as well as all tribal cards, are only going to affect your creatures. I don’t expect that to be a change we’re undoing anytime soon.
Card Printing Cascade Creatures Kindred / Typal Sliver Spells The First Sliver

The First Sliver Explained

New • 23 May 2019 • Asked by sweetsustenance-blog1 • 50 Comments

Hey Mark! I'm super excited for Modern Horizons, but I had a question regarding one of the newly released Slivers. The First Sliver. It's got cascade, which seems to be a mechanic that's tied to Alara, and its name indicates that it is the very first original Sliver (As does its art, which looks very ancient/protean). Are these both baseless assumptions? Some clarification would be appreciated!

Just as many worlds can have Goblins, many worlds can have various mechanics like cascade. Just because we didn’t see it when we were there, doesn’t mean it couldn’t be there.
Art Cascade Goblin Mechanics Modern Modern Horizons Sliver The First Sliver

Command Zone Enhancements

New • 23 May 2019 • Asked by ashe-cloud-phoenix • 43 Comments

In addition to Sisay, I also think The First Sliver is exactly the option I've been missing for the command zone in order to make me want to rebuild my old Overlord deck. And Morophon goes great in that deck! Horizons is full of home runs. (Urza has to be mentioned as well, along with plenty of other nonlegendary stuff that looks great in the format) You might have to wear gloves before attempting that many high-fives in a row.

And my hand was just healing from War of the Spark. : )
Sisay Sliver The Command Zone The First Sliver Urza War of the Spark Your Hand

Silver Planeswalker Future

New • 31 Mar 2015 • Asked by wobbles • 47 Comments

What would we most likely see first: the first sliver planeswalker or the second silver planeswalker?

Second silver planeswalker.
Planeswalkers Sliver The First Sliver

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