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Sedge Sliver

Creature — Sliver2 generic manaRed mana

Most Sliver lords hand out one thing to everybody: a keyword, a fixed pump, a single shared cost. This one bolts on two abilities of different shapes, and the split is the design. The first is a conditional buff that keys off controlling a Swamp, which quietly drags a tribe of one-color creatures toward a black manabase even though the lord itself reads red. The second is a regeneration grant that asks only for black mana, not a Swamp, so a board of Slivers can survive a sweeper or chump all day for one black per body regardless of which lands are out. The two halves point at the same color from different angles: one wants the Swamp on the battlefield, the other just wants access to black, and together they make the splash both a requirement and a payoff. Worth being precise about the grant, too: it reads "All Sliver creatures" and "All Slivers," not yours alone, so an opposing Sliver deck running its own Swamps gets the size bonus and the regeneration shield right back, a quirk the tribe has carried since its lords first started broadcasting to both sides of the table. The effect stacks across copies, each one adding another +1/+1 condition and another regeneration grant for the whole tribe. The 2/2 body is incidental; the value is entirely in what it hands the team and in the color commitment it asks in return.

Sedge Sliver (plst)
PLST · #TSP-177rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

All Sliver creatures have "This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp." All Slivers have "Black mana: Regenerate this permanent." (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on 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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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