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. Groundshaker Sliver is the only sliver with mana value 7.

Five slivers cost WUBRG. Those slivers are Sliver Queen, Sliver Legion, Sliver Overlord, Sliver Hivelord, and The First Sliver.

Color
Through Modern Horizons, there are 19 white slivers, 14 blue slivers, 14 black slivers, 20 red slivers, 17 green slivers, 3 artifact slivers, and 22 multicolored slivers.

Power/Toughness
Power and toughness of slivers range from 1/1 to 7/7 and are always printed equal. There is only one sliver with power and toughness 4/4 and only four of the five legendary slivers have power and toughness 7/7 (all but Sliver Hivelord). There is no sliver with power and toughness 6/6.

Subtype
Only a few sliver have an additional subtype; these are Construct, Fungus, Illusion, Mutant, Spirit, and Trilobite.

Metallic Sliver
If I had one of each sliver in play, what would the stats of my Metallic Sliver be?

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: Acidic Sliver</c>, Armor Sliver</c>, Barbed Sliver</c>, Brood Sliver</c>, Clot Sliver</c>, Crystalline Sliver</c>, Heart Sliver</c>, Hibernation Sliver</c>, Metallic Sliver</c>, Muscle Sliver</c>, Quick Sliver</c>, Sliver Overlord</c>, Spectral Sliver</c>, Spined Sliver</c>, Victual Sliver</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.

Sliver tokens
Three 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

On non-Sliver cards
Slivers are referred to either visually or textually on these non-sliver cards:
 * <c>Change of Heart</c>
 * <c>Crossbow Ambush</c>
 * <c>Dreamcatcher</c>
 * <c>Hive Stirrings</c>
 * <c>Hivestone</c>
 * <c>Interdict</c>
 * <c>Metamorphose</c>
 * <c>Return From Extinction</c>
 * <c>Riptide Replicator</c>
 * <c>Riptide Survivor</c>
 * <c>Sliver Hive</c>
 * <c>Sliversmith</c>
 * <c>Sphere of Resistance</c>
 * <c>Stabilizer</c>
 * <c>Uncontrolled Infestation</c>
 * <c>Vedalken Æthermage</c>
 * <c>Warped Researcher</c>
 * <c>Vedalken Æthermage</c>
 * <c>Warped Researcher</c>

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: 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.
 * <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