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Screeching Sliver

Creature — SliverBlue mana

Mill as a tribal lord effect is a strange place to land, and that strangeness is the whole point of this design. The Sliver hivemind shares everything: keywords, pumps, evasion, sacrifice outlets. Here the shared gift is a tap ability that grinds one card off a library at a time, and because every Sliver in play (yours and your opponent's) gains it, a developed board turns into a chorus of one-card mills that adds up faster than the per-tap rate suggests. The catch built into that shared grant is the same one that limits every Sliver lord: hand the ability to everyone and you arm any opposing Sliver deck with it too, and a one-card-per-tap clock is glacial unless you already control a crowd. This is less a finisher than a proof of concept, an early demonstration that Slivers could be aimed at axes other than combat. Most Slivers grant a way to attack better or block better; this one grants an alternate win condition entirely, which is what makes it the odd member of its tribe rather than another stat-stick lord. The body is incidental. What it contributes is the tap symbol and the willingness to commit the whole tribe to a plan that does no damage at all.

Screeching Sliver (sld)
SLD · #622rare
Pricing
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Foil: $2.92
Oracle Text

Rules text

All Slivers have "Tap: Target player mills a card."
Legalities

Format Status

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