This morning my doorbell rang very early. I was still sleeping, so it took me awhile to open the door. To my surprise there was nobody there! On the other hand there lay a parcel on the doormat. It contained a large chocolate easteregg filled to the brim with all kinds of little eggs. There was also rose-scented note with a telephonenumber on it. I must have a secret admirer!
Have I been followed? It was not hard to guess which source it came from, because there was also the following information on it:
Homing Sliver :2mana::symr:
Creature - Sliver
Slivercycling 3
Each Sliver card in each player's hand has Slivercycling 3.
2/2
I think that magic girl you overheard on the subway wants to "home your sliver."
...The plot thickens!
On a related note...
That would be a decent sliver.. not that great, but what it would do is open up design space that all of us sliver players have longed for. Cards that interact with slivers that are not in play. That is very exciting.
I'm calling it, Hunter made a secret pact with Rosewater. Yup, secret pact. Homing sliver seems cool for constructed. But anyways, I like eating Slivers for breakfast, with a side dish of newbs that always play tribal with them. This one won't make a major difference, but it's good to see wizards thinking outside the box and expanding the slivers design space, lol
I'm sure there is some sliver combo deck using this card bound to be made. The ability to tutor up whatever sliver you want for your Basal Sliver combo seems absurd.
Well, this is certainly interesting. I'm not sure I would have picked a red sliver to make all of your other slivers into sliver-tutors. This is very Survival of the Fittest. I definitely see this being good. If this can hit play, you can set up a "crack team" of slivers to quickly ensure victory (like say, Firewake Sliver, Two-Headed Sliver, and two of the poison slivers to run in for 10 poison counters hastily ftw).
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lol Hunter bro, I'm loving these findings brother... Classic stuff!
As for the sliver itself, most interesting; I'd commit to testing it out before dismissing it fully of course, but it's interesting in a casual sort of way.
Hunter, I applaud your good fortune. You should call that number and find out if this is Timeshifted or not. You should also call for reasons completely unrelated to magic (the card game).
This really does open up some very interesting design space... Sliver Spirit Guide? Gempalm Sliver? Slivdecopod? Of course these are all a stretch, but it puts the new ideas into your mind and really opens the playing field.
this is sick....
it gets the sliver "random deck" strategy to a whole new level (the "random deck" strategy is where you have lots of different slivers and every game you practically get different ones-making it like a different deck)
good fetching cards in FS till now...(we got an ultimate land fetch, and a sliver fetch)
This thread is full of idiots... Lightning Bolt is NOT being reprinted.
Many times has a writer in Wizards said so, because of the plain and simple fact that it's too powerful for what it costs. x/3 creatures shouldn't be able to die at instant speed for one mana without a signifigant drawback. (like PTE giving you a land)
I absolutely guarantee that LB will not be printed in M10, and you can quote me on that.
hmmm, a friend and I are currently playtesting a 5c Sliver-combo deck...shamed to say this fits right in...Slivers have just jumped the shark...is there anything they cant do anymore?? seriously now...as if Slivers werent good enough, now you're gonna be able to look for any sliver you want? "I have 4 Slivers in play, 2 in hand, and 10 mana...gonna discard my Shadow Sliver to get Sliver Legion, then gonna play Two-Headed Sliver and swing for 42...no responses? okay...you lose...WTF?!?! Im a casual player, but this seems a little...nuts, even for my tastes...
on-topic: looks like a good card, if it's power and toughness are 2/2 it would be a natural fit in that crazy wild pair sliver deck. in limited, this looks good, because when you draw that sidewinder sliver turn 8, you can upgrade it to your pulmonic for a few mana more =)
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Sliver
Each Sliver card in each player's hand has Slivercycling 3.
2/2
So is the template for this one confirmed as "Sliver card" not "Sliver creature card"? That's interesting. I wonder what that means with respect to the templating for Sliver Legion, which uses the phrase "Sliver creature."
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I don't think that it would actually have Slivercycling 3 itself (so that you can use it in your hand), otherwise what would be likely to happen would be that it would never actually get cast, just be used as an instant speed tutor for silver bullets.
So is the template for this one confirmed as "Sliver card" not "Sliver creature card"? That's interesting. I wonder what that means with respect to the templating for Sliver Legion, which uses the phrase "Sliver creature."
My guess is nothing. A sliver creature is a permanent in play. A sliver card in your hand is, well, a card in your hand. All this tells us is that it only applies to permanents, possibly. We still have no clue as to why.
Have I been followed? It was not hard to guess which source it came from, because there was also the following information on it:
Homing Sliver :2mana::symr:
Creature - Sliver
Slivercycling 3
Each Sliver card in each player's hand has Slivercycling 3.
2/2
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Slivercycling... nice.
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On a related note...
That would be a decent sliver.. not that great, but what it would do is open up design space that all of us sliver players have longed for. Cards that interact with slivers that are not in play. That is very exciting.
That said, I want to see a Sliver that makes my jaw drop. Hasn't happened yet! Must happen. Soon. Yes.
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As for the sliver itself, most interesting; I'd commit to testing it out before dismissing it fully of course, but it's interesting in a casual sort of way.
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it gets the sliver "random deck" strategy to a whole new level (the "random deck" strategy is where you have lots of different slivers and every game you practically get different ones-making it like a different deck)
good fetching cards in FS till now...(we got an ultimate land fetch, and a sliver fetch)
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on-topic: looks like a good card, if it's power and toughness are 2/2 it would be a natural fit in that crazy wild pair sliver deck. in limited, this looks good, because when you draw that sidewinder sliver turn 8, you can upgrade it to your pulmonic for a few mana more =)
So is the template for this one confirmed as "Sliver card" not "Sliver creature card"? That's interesting. I wonder what that means with respect to the templating for Sliver Legion, which uses the phrase "Sliver creature."
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Don't you mean sliver bullets?
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My guess is nothing. A sliver creature is a permanent in play. A sliver card in your hand is, well, a card in your hand. All this tells us is that it only applies to permanents, possibly. We still have no clue as to why.
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On the sliver... wow wow wow.... now you can tutor for a sliver..... not broken, but very efficient.... me likes em!!!
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