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Scuttling Sliver

Creature — Sliver Trilobite2 generic manaBlue mana

The untap grant is the quietest of the Sliver lords, and the one whose value is hardest to feel until the board stops moving. Where most Slivers hand out combat keywords or evasion, this one distributes a repeatable pseudo-vigilance: pay two, untap, and a creature that attacked is back on defense, or a tapped Sliver with a useful activated ability comes online again. The real leverage is on Slivers that tap themselves as part of their function. Any Sliver whose ability requires tapping can be run twice in a turn once every creature can pay to stand back up, which turns a table of tap-abilities into a mana-gated engine rather than a once-per-turn cadence. It asks nothing of the board state and everything of your mana; the ability is deliberately open-ended, so the ceiling scales with how many other Slivers are already doing work and how much floating mana the deck can generate. Left to fight alone, the 2/2 body does little; its job is to make the rest of the hive harder to grind down, feeding the slow, incremental attrition the tribe was designed to win.

Scuttling Sliver (j21)
J21 · #245uncommon
Pricing
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Foil: $1.61
Oracle Text

Rules text

Sliver creatures you control have "2 generic mana: Untap this creature."
Legalities

Format Status

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

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