Sliver/Trivia

This page contains trivia information regarding slivers.
==Mana cost==
The mana values of sliver creature cards range from 1 to 7. There are eight slivers with converted mana cost 1. <c>Groundshaker Sliver</c> is the only sliver with mana value 7.
Six slivers cost WUBRG. Those slivers are <c>Sliver Queen</c>, <c>Sliver Legion</c>, <c>Sliver Overlord</c>, <c>Sliver Hivelord</c>, <c>The First Sliver</c>, and <c>Sliver Gravemother</c>.
==Color==
Through Commander Masters, there are 20 white slivers, 15 blue slivers, 15 black slivers, 21 red slivers, 18 green slivers, 3 artifact slivers, and 23 multicolored slivers.
==Power/Toughness==
The power and toughness of slivers range from 1/1 to 7/7 and are always printed equally. There is only one sliver with power and toughness of 4/4 and only four of the six legendary slivers have power and toughness of 7/7 (<c>Sliver Hivelord</c> and <c>Sliver Gravemother</c> do not). 
==Subtype==
Only a few slivers have an additional subtype; these are Construct, Fungus, Illusion, Mutant, Spirit, Trilobite, and Zombie.
==Metallic Sliver==
==Alternate printings==
The following cards have received additional printings featuring alternate art:
* was made available with by Brad Rigney as a promo card for the Xbox version of Magic 2014/Duels of the Planeswalkers
* was made available with by Lucas Graciano as the prerelease promo for Magic 2014
* was made available with by Johann Bodin as a launch promo for Magic 2014
Sixteen cards originally printed in the old card frame were reprinted in Premium Deck Series: Slivers featuring the new card frame and a foil finish: <c>Acidic Sliver</c>, <c>Armor Sliver</c>, <c>Barbed Sliver</c>, <c>Brood Sliver</c>, <c>Clot Sliver</c>, <c>Crystalline Sliver</c>, <c>Heart Sliver</c>, <c>Hibernation Sliver</c>, <c>Metallic Sliver</c>, <c>Muscle Sliver</c>, <c>Quick Sliver</c>, <c>Sliver Overlord</c>, <c>Spectral Sliver</c>, <c>Spined Sliver</c>, <c>Victual Sliver</c>, <c>Winged Sliver</c>. In addition to being printed in the new card frame for the first time, it is notable that many of these cards had not been available in a foil finish before.
Foil printings with extended art were made available as bonus cards with the Secret Lair Drop Series.
==Sliver tokens==
Four different versions of the 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token have been printed:
* token with art by Tony Szczudlo
* token with art by Igor Kieryluk
* token with art by Vincent Proce
* token with art by Steve Ellis
==Sliver card design==
Some Sliver cards (specially from Time Spiral) were designed by paying homage or referencing other non-sliver cards: 
Card 	Inspired by 	Notes
<c>Basal Sliver</c> 	<c>Basal Thrull</c> 	Basal Sliver grants other Slivers Basal Thrull's ability without having to tap itself.
<c>Bonesplitter Sliver</c> 	<c>Bonesplitter</c> 	Bonesplitter Sliver pumps other Slivers equal to Bonesplitter's pump ability.
<c>Cloudshredder Sliver</c>	<c>Skyknight Legionnaire</c> 	Cloudhshredder Sliver's art and abilities reflect Skyknight Legionnaire.
<c>Dementia Sliver</c> 	<c>Nebuchadnezzar</c> 	Dementia Sliver grants other Slivers Nebuchadnezzar's ability.
<c>Darkheart Sliver</c> 	<c>Dark Heart of the Wood</c>	Darkheart Sliver is Dark Heart of the Wood for Slivers.
<c>Cautery Sliver</c> 	<c>Goblin Legionnaire</c> 	Cautery Sliver turns Slivers into Goblin Legionnaires.
<c>Dormant Sliver</c> 	<c>Jungle Barrier</c> 	Dormant Sliver turns Slivers into Jungle Barriers.
<c>Frenetic Sliver</c> 	<c>Frenetic Efreet</c> 	Frenetic Sliver turns Slivers into Frenetic Efreets that flicker instead of phasing out.
<c>Psionic Sliver</c> 	<c>Psionic Entity</c> 	Psionic Sliver gives Slivers Psionic Entity's ability.
<c>Telekinetic Sliver</c> 	<c>Opposition</c> 	Telekinetic Sliver grants Opposition for Slivers.
<c>Two-Headed Sliver</c> 	<c>Two-Headed Dragon</c> 	Two-headed creatures gave menace, which wasn't keyworded then. Two-Headed Sliver gives Slivers menace.
<c>Sedge Sliver</c> 	<c>Sedge Troll</c> 	Sedge Sliver gives Slivers Sedge Troll's abilities.
<c>Gemhide Sliver</c> 	<c>Gemstone Mine</c> 	Gemhide Sliver makes other Slivers add one mana of any color similar to Gemstone Mine.
<c>Ghostflame Sliver</c> 	<c>Ghostly Flame</c> 	Ghostflame Sliver turns other Slivers colorless similar to Ghostly Flame with red and black cards.
<c>Firewake Sliver</c> 	<c>Fires of Yavimaya</c> 	Firewake Sliver grants Fires of Yavimaya's abilities to other Slivers.
<c>Opaline Sliver</c> 	<c>Reparations</c> 	Opaline Slivers grants Reparations for Slivers.
<c>Plague Sliver</c> 	<c>Juzám Djinn</c> 	Cost and P/T are the same. Plague Sliver gives other Slivers Juzám Djinn's upkeep ability.
<c>Quilled Sliver</c> 	<c>Crossbow Infantry</c> 	Quilled Sliver gives Slivers Crossbow Infantry's ability.
<c>Watcher Sliver</c> 	<c>Castle</c> 	Watcher Sliver increases Slivers' toughness equal to Castle's ability.
<c>Fungus Sliver</c> 	<c>Fungusaur</c> 	Fungus Sliver gives other Slivers Fungusaur's ability.
<c>Sliver Legion</c> 	<c>Coat of Arms</c> 	Sliver Legion gives other Slivers a Coat of Arms effect.
<c>Tempered Sliver</c> 	<c>Slith Predator</c> 	Tempered Sliver's art and ability is an homage to Tempered Sliver.
<c>Mindlash Sliver</c> 	<c>Mind Slash</c> 	Both name and ability are an homage to Mind Slash.
===Earlier versions===
*Early in Tempest design, the common white sliver (<c>Talon Sliver</c>) had Banding and the common black sliver (<c>Clot Sliver</c>) costed to regenerate instead of . For the uncommon cycle, their mana value was reduced from 4 to 3 and their P/T was changed from 3/3 to 2/2, the uncommon black sliver had <c>Barbed Sliver</c>) but it got switched to a discard ability.
*In early Stronghold design, the <c>Sliver Queen</c> used to have trample and its token ability used to cost to activate. The allied color cycle suffered little to no changes.
==On non-Sliver cards==
Slivers are referred to either visually or textually on these non-sliver cards:
==The Sliver Queen==
The Sliver Queen was the first ever tournament legal card with mana cost WUBRG.
The Sliver Queen has been depicted on two Vanguard cards:
*<c>Sliver Queen, Brood Mother</c>, printed in 1998 for Vanguard Series 3
*<c>Sliver Queen Avatar</c>, made specifically for MTGO in 2009, available only digitally
The Sliver Queen is on the Reserved List and will not be reprinted as a regular tournament legal card, but has been reprinted in Commander's Arsenal as a oversized foil card.
==A Sliver planeswalker?==
The likelihood of ever getting a Sliver Planeswalker is low, being that it wouldn’t do what people think it would nor does it make great flavor sense as most Slivers aren’t sapient. Slivers are shapeshifters that share a group mind. Other Slivers can fly when near a Winged Sliver because it’s implanting the knowledge of how to grow wings. There’s no way to share knowledge of having a spark. There’s nothing to shapeshift into to be able to planeswalk.
==References==
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