Simple question, if I play the Tribal Instant Nameless Inversion and I have a Pulmonic Sliver on the battlefield, does Nameless Inversion get put on top of my library?
I guess where I'm confused is that Pulmonic Sliver's ability says "If this creature". I know Changeling says Nameless Inversion is "every creature type" but in this context does it count AS a creature?
Additionally, in the context of a sliver deck, would Nameless Inversion trigger any/all "enter the battlefield" effects as it resolves?
All Slivers have "If this permanent would be put into a graveyard, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead.
A good start is to check out the card on gatherer, there you get the oracle text for the card which is the current rules for it. That may differ from the text that is wrotten on the card. Old Lightning Bolt is a good example for this where the text has been changed to "...3 damage to any target" after they changed the planeswalker damage redirection rules.
Nameless inversion is not a permanent (and not a creature) and therefore isn't affeted by Pulmonic Slivers ability
You have different kinds of types in MTG.
205.2a The card types are artifact, conspiracy, creature, enchantment, instant, land, phenomenon,
plane, planeswalker, scheme, sorcery, tribal, and vanguard. See section 3, “Card Types.”
205.3a A card can have one or more subtypes printed on its type line.
205.3b Subtypes of each card type except plane are always single words and are listed after a long
dash. Each word after the dash is a separate subtype; such objects may have multiple types.
Subtypes of planes are also listed after a long dash, but may be multiple words; all words after
the dash are, collectively, a single subtype
Tribal cards are special in that they can have a creature subtype. But if they don't have the creature type they are not creatures.
Basically the difference is between creature types, that mean the diferent creature subtypes (Sliver, Angel etc.) and the type creature which is a type on its own.
Inversion also never enters the batlefield so it won't trigger enter the battlefield effects.
110.4. There are five permanent types: artifact, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker. Instant
and sorcery cards can’t enter the battlefield and thus can’t be permanents. Some tribal cards can
enter the battlefield and some can’t, depending on their other card types. See section 3, “Card
Types.”
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Nameless Inversion is not a "Sliver" while it's on the stack waiting to resolve, but rather a "Sliver spell" (C.R. 109.2, 111.1, 205.3m, 604.3, 702.72a). Where Pulmonic Sliver refers to "Slivers", it means only Sliver permanents on the battlefield (C.R. 109.2), not "Sliver spells" on the stack, or Sliver cards in the graveyard (C.R. 109.2a-b).
EDIT: Add rule citations after comment 5 was posted.
EDIT (Jan. 14): Correctness edit.
So it counts as a "Sliver Spell" not a "Sliver Creature", okay, so then in the case of Root Sliver, that would mean Nameless Inversion can't be countered?
So it counts as a "Sliver Spell" not a "Sliver Creature", okay, so then in the case of Root Sliver, that would mean Nameless Inversion can't be countered?
Correct; because of changeling, Nameless Inversion has the Sliver type (and all other creature types) everywhere, including on the stack (C.R. 205.3m, 604.3, 702.72a).
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I guess where I'm confused is that Pulmonic Sliver's ability says "If this creature". I know Changeling says Nameless Inversion is "every creature type" but in this context does it count AS a creature?
Additionally, in the context of a sliver deck, would Nameless Inversion trigger any/all "enter the battlefield" effects as it resolves?
All Slivers have "If this permanent would be put into a graveyard, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead.
A good start is to check out the card on gatherer, there you get the oracle text for the card which is the current rules for it. That may differ from the text that is wrotten on the card. Old Lightning Bolt is a good example for this where the text has been changed to "...3 damage to any target" after they changed the planeswalker damage redirection rules.
Nameless inversion is not a permanent (and not a creature) and therefore isn't affeted by Pulmonic Slivers ability
You have different kinds of types in MTG.
plane, planeswalker, scheme, sorcery, tribal, and vanguard. See section 3, “Card Types.”
205.3a A card can have one or more subtypes printed on its type line.
205.3b Subtypes of each card type except plane are always single words and are listed after a long
dash. Each word after the dash is a separate subtype; such objects may have multiple types.
Subtypes of planes are also listed after a long dash, but may be multiple words; all words after
the dash are, collectively, a single subtype
Tribal cards are special in that they can have a creature subtype. But if they don't have the creature type they are not creatures.
Basically the difference is between creature types, that mean the diferent creature subtypes (Sliver, Angel etc.) and the type creature which is a type on its own.
Inversion also never enters the batlefield so it won't trigger enter the battlefield effects.
110.4. There are five permanent types: artifact, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker. Instant
and sorcery cards can’t enter the battlefield and thus can’t be permanents. Some tribal cards can
enter the battlefield and some can’t, depending on their other card types. See section 3, “Card
Types.”
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EDIT: Add rule citations after comment 5 was posted.
EDIT (Jan. 14): Correctness edit.