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Frenetic Sliver

Creature — Sliver1 generic manaBlue manaRed mana

Built on a counterintuitive premise: that a coin flip can be a tool rather than a gamble. The free activation it grants every Sliver is, in isolation, a 50/50 between a flicker and a sacrifice, the usual self-defeating math of a coin-flip card. The value is in what it flickers and across how many bodies you can spread the bet. A board of Slivers turns this into a wide enters-the-battlefield engine: each Sliver carries its own coin, so a full team gives you a handful of independent flips, and every shared on-entry trigger in the tribe becomes a free, on-demand replay (the catch being that any one Sliver only flips once before it resolves into exile or the graveyard). Pair it with effects that win regardless of the outcome, or with a board wide enough that losing a single body is irrelevant, and the variance stops being a cost. It also doubles as an instant-speed protection valve: respond to a kill spell by flickering the target out of harm's way, and even a lost flip lets you sacrifice the creature on your own terms instead of handing the kill to your opponent. This is design that leans into Sliver shared-keyword math instead of fighting it, handing the tribe an activated ability whose downside is load-bearing only if you build as though it isn't.

Frenetic Sliver (sld)
SLD · #662rare
Pricing
Normal:
Foil: $3.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

All Slivers have "0 generic mana: If this permanent is on the battlefield, flip a coin. If you win the flip, exile this permanent and return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. If you lose the flip, sacrifice it."
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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