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Capricious Sliver

Creature — Sliver3 generic manaRed mana

Sliver anthem effects are usually about combat math: extra bodies, keyword grants, the incremental swarm that turns a wide board into lethal. This one grants an engine instead. Every Sliver that connects turns a swing into a card, and because the exiled card is playable that turn, a profitable attack step refuels the board that made it profitable. The design leans into the archetype's defining weakness. Go-wide Sliver decks flood the board and then run out of gas; the payoff for winning combat has always been more combat, never more cards. Bolting a per-creature impulse-draw trigger onto the tribe converts each unblocked attacker into resources that let you rebuild through removal, which is precisely the wall a swarm strategy hits once the opponent starts trading one-for-one. The impulse framing (exile and play this turn rather than draw into hand) is where the restraint lives: you have to use what you dig into, on curve, or lose it, so the trigger rewards a board that already spends its mana every turn. The 3/3 body for four is deliberately unremarkable, because the card is not asking to attack on its own; it is asking a board of Slivers to attack and be paid for it.

Capricious Sliver (cmm)
CMM · #765rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.60
Foil: $2.45
Oracle Text

Rules text

Sliver creatures you control have "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn."
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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