Blade Sliver

Legions filled out the Sliver tribe with a complete cycle of lords, one per color, each granting a single stat boost across the whole family. This is the red entry, and it pushes raw aggression: every Sliver on the board hits harder while it lives. Where Muscle Sliver pumps power one body at a time and Sinew Sliver doubles down later, the lord effect here scales with the swarm, turning a board of identical small bodies into a clock that closes fast. The design logic is the same one that makes any tribal lord dangerous and fragile at once: the anthem is non-redundant in the sense that it stacks (two copies grant +2/+0 to everything, including each other), but it is also a removal magnet, since trading one card for a board-wide downgrade is a deal opponents take eagerly. The toughness boost is conspicuously absent, which is the tell about what red was asked to contribute to the tribe: speed, not staying power. It does nothing to help Slivers survive a sweep or a blocker, only to race past one. That asymmetry is what separates the red lord from its white and green counterparts, and it is the reason a Sliver deck leaning on this card wants to be ending games before the math turns against it.