Sliver Overlord, The Godfather

Enjoy slivers, embrace evolution.

> Theme

Sliver tribal deck.

> Introduction

Slivers are THE BEST tribe that WotC has ever made in the whole magic history. They are (mostly) small creatures, that create synergies between each other.
The main slivers peculiarity is their ability, since they all start with "Slivers you control have ..." or "All slivers have ...", which means that having 3 or 4 slivers on the battlefield, will result into 3 or 4 creatures with 3 or 4 abilities each!
So, as you can understand, things can evolve really quickly when you start dropping those little Zerg-like creatues on the battlefield, forcing your opponents to deal with them as soon as possible. Yes, of course, slivers bring a lot of hate to their owner, so prepare to be the first target in your pod!
With this deck we're going to see how to deal with this hate in order to reach your goal: outlast your opponents while evolving your army until the game's climax.

> Commander

Sliver Overlord is the only serious choice here.
Why? Your commander can tutor for other slivers. Instantly, without tapping him.
Training Ground is a huge help here, because with the original ability cost of {3} you can now tutor for 3 slivers. or just ramp a little and play your commander at turn 5, using its ability in the same turn: pretty badass uh?
And of course he can also steal other slivers to other players. They don't have slivers? False.
Amoeboid Changeling can turn them into slivers as well, so you can steal them. Oh, almost forgetting... You can also tutor for it, since it's also a sliver.

> Protecting your babies

Like every tribal deck, one of your weak points are board wipes and single target removals: let's see how we can deal with those.

The lock:

Sliver Hivelord + Crystalline Sliver is one of our key here, since the first provide indestructible and the second shroud. With those on our field, our weakness will be sac and mass exile.

Bounce:

Hibernation Sliver is very important for us, since he allow us to bounce back our slivers without using mana. In response to a mass sac or mass exile, we can use its ability in order to save some of our key pieces.

If you are lacking on slivers that can protect your army, some protection can be provided by cards like Countersquall, Counterspell, Disallow, Dovin's Veto, Swan Song and Voidslime.
Teferi's Protection can really save us from some infinite combo damage, big swipe, mass exile, a mass -X/-X, a Cyclonic Rift and so on.

> Finding the right tool when needed

We're using some tutor here, since our commander might be not enough: Vampiric Tutor, Enlightened Tutor, Worldly Tutor, Eladamri's Call, Demonic Tutor and our friend Homing Sliver, which, if played, can transform all of our slivers in our hand into sliver-tutors as well.

> Turning off some fires

We're also running a bunch of spot removals, in order to avoid some of our opponents combo or just by keeping away some cards that could make us impossible to play our plans.
Those are Abrupt Decay, Anguished Unmaking, Beast Within, Cyclonic Rift, Swords to Plowshares and our friend Necrotic Sliver, which can transform all of our babies into super cute kamikazes.
Don't be afraid to use Toxic Deluge if needed, if you have some reanimation spell like Patriarch's Bidding or Living Death in your hand.

> Fixing our mana base and ramping

Chromatic Lantern is pretty damn good here, since we're playing a WUBRG deck: also other mana rocks like Coalition Relic and Fellwar Stone can help us with ramp/mana fixing.
A huge ramp can come from Gemhide Sliver, Manaweft Sliver and Cryptolith Rite, which can transforms our babies into mana dorks.
Farseek, Nature's Lore and Skyshroud Claim can tutor for shock lands, which is pretty good.

> How to be hated and win your games

• Sliver Legion + Galerider Sliver / Cloudshredder Sliver / Shifting Sliver + enough slivers fro a big swipe
• Gemhide Sliver / Manaweft Sliver / Cryptolith Rite + enough slivers for your manabase + Armageddon
• Sliver Queen + Basal Sliver = infinite slivers ETB, if Training Grounds is on the field, it will also result into infinite slivers on the battlefield: could be pretty nice with Heart Sliver/Cloudshredder Sliver; if Lavabelly Sliver is out, there's no need to have an haste sliver, since this will end up consuming your enemies life totals
• Sliver Queen + Gemhide Sliver / Manaweft Sliver / Cryptolith Rite + Heart Sliver/Cloudshredder Sliver + Intruder Alarm = infinite 1/1 Sliver Token
• Sliver Queen + Mana Echoes + {2} Mana = infinite colorless mana and infinite 1/1 Sliver Token
• Sliver Hivelord + Supreme Verdict
• Being hated so much with your graveyard full of slivers + Living Death / Patriarch's Bidding = salty revenge

> Changelog:

• 09/04/2020: Upgraded the manabase by a little adding Scalding Tarn and Misty Rainforest instead of a Forest and an Island.
• 28/02/2020: Removed Bring to Light added Smothering Tithe: BTL cost is too high, and tithe is still too good to not be included.
• 01/02/2020: Removed Arcane Denial, added Countersquall, since we use counters for protection and we don't want to give card advantage. Removed Smothering Tithe, added Teferi's Protection, since a friend of mine borrowed me one for long term! Thanks Gianma!
• 08/01/2020: Created a Discord server! You can join it! https://discord.gg/euBGV7
• 30/10/2019: Removed Grand Coliseum, added Mana echoes. 35 lands might be enough, since the deck got some ramp, and that land was entering tapped.
• 24/10/2019: Removed Mystical Tutor, added Vampiric Tutor. Tutoring for any card is way better then tutoring for only instants and sorceries.
• 13/09/2019: Removed Darksteel Ingot, added Chrome Mox, since it's a faster mana accelerator.
• 12/09/2019: Removed Utter End, added Toxic Deluge, since I got this new staple and it's a powerful removal.
• 09/07/2019: Removed Paradox Engine due to its ban, Intruder Alarm is coming back home.

Extras:

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