Secondly, The First Sliver isn't actually a particularly fun card to play with. Getting a huge chain of slivers was fun the first time. However, once he's down resolving slivers drastically bogs down the game since it takes so long to cascade. He'd be fine in the 99, but I'm strongly disliking him as the general with the play pattern he sets up. I'm planning on avoiding choosing Sliver Overlord as my general for similar reasons. I dislike the extremely linear play pattern he encourages.
I'm leaning towards having Sliver Hivelord or Sliver Queen helm the deck. I was wondering if anyone had an ideas around how to make a fairly sliver based deck, that is less snowball-y/combo-y. Is there any way to build slivers as a more supplementary background strategy to a more mind-range control deck? Or any other interesting ways that I could take this deck? I'm planning on chopping it up quite a lot.
My only real goal with the deck is to use all of the 5c sliver legends to some extent. Maybe find a way to utilize Cruel Ultimatum because I haven't cast that in a very long time. Also, I'm aware the manabase is currently really bad, I want a deck that I enjoy greatly before I start tweaking the mana to support it.
Sliver EDH
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