![]() ![]() While I didn't open her that day, Tempest Remastered had Sliver Queen, a Sliver with every color in its mana cost that represented the leader of the tribe. Riffing off older effects and spells is one thing Slivers are known for, but it's not the only one. Slivers are a look into the past as a look into the past! Legions of Slivers Darkheart Sliver, too, references Dark Heart of the Wood-which is a little less powerful than Necrotic Sliver as homage to the sorcery Vindicate.Īnd if you caught that Dormant Sliver draws from Jungle Barrier-including defender to turn off their ability to attack-and Cautery Sliver makes them all into Goblin Legionnaires, then you have a sharp mind for Invasion block cards. Firewake Sliver and Harmonic Sliver are nods to the powerful and useful enchantments Fires of Yavimaya and Aura Shards. These Slivers offer quite a range of abilities. Time Spiral Remastered wouldn't be a true trip to the past without the return of these iconic creatures. That harsh environment of a post-apocalyptic Dominaria pushed Slivers to adapt with even stranger abilities from combinations of colors-or was as good a time as any other to design some using enemy color pairs for the first time-and brought a smile to the face of everyone that wanted to see even more. The history of Slivers in Magic stretches from their initial appearance on Rath in Tempest to the overlay-merging-of Rath onto Dominaria during Invasion block, to their revival by Riptide scientists during Onslaught block, to their distant descendants surviving as the plane of Dominaria was dying during Time Spiral-and beyond. Slivers rightfully earned their enduring popularity by giving you the best of it all: Slivers care about Slivers, grant their abilities to all the rest, and encourage you to build up a deck full of them simply by finding more. One of my cards I read multiple times and couldn't fathom how it was remotely useful- Duplicity-but another blue card tipped me off to something different going on. The exact details and contents are lost from my memory, and so are most of the cards I opened. I can vividly recall the moment I pulled the wrapper off the box, becoming more engrossed as I read every page of the included "storybook" that pulled me into the journey of the Weatherlight crew on the plane of Rath. That box of Magic cards was called a "Starter Deck" and sounded exactly like what I was doing. It was purple, with a mean-looking dragon looking back at me underneath a radical set name: Tempest. But it was a larger package that caught my eye. I looked over the booster packs and recognized the names of sets I'd been playing with: Mirage, Visions, Fifth Edition. ![]() I wasn't exactly sure what to get, and this was long before I had fast internet and plenty of ways to see what was out there. While I learned the game-and received a handful of cards-from my friend at school, there was a year or so before I had the opportunity to make my very first Magic purchase. ![]()
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