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I love slivers and I have 37 different slivers and 48 slivers all together and I want to know what other people think about them

Currently slivers lose to everything in standard, and don't see competitive play because they are easily overcome. I would say they are slightly too competitive for a true casual group and underwhelming in a larger tournament setting. They have always been "cool" but I have always found it hard to play them and not feel like a tard. My only sliver deck was a combo deck based more on getting tokens, turning them into slivers, then into mana and casting a giant demonfire at my opponent. If you look on page 3 or 4 you can probably find it.

you can do the same with goblins and elves...sometimes even zombies

true, which is why more people tend to try and play slivers, because you aren't stuck with only a few possibilities. You could have an entire group with each player having their own sliver deck and have everyone be different. Diversity and uniqueness are the thing that makes so many people play magic and slivers embody that.

When it comes to broken potential though...elves have long had a turn 2-3 combo kill. Goblins tends to turn 3 kill like a clock in legacy. Slivers tend to need near god hands to kill before turn 4 (and that is aggro specifically).

Um...'Kay. I think I might be bursting a few bubbles here, but I think slivers in the current Standard format are overrated.

Granted, I'm a biased opinion- I tend to play Control, and have only recently began playing Tempo-decks. I've played against slivers about as much as I've played with other sorts of aggro decks, and I've always found that going against slivers was a -lot- easier then Elves, Faeries, Goblins, or even Merfolk.

The reasoning behind this is their vulnerability to both spot-removal and how overcosted some of their cards are. If you go against Elves, if you kill their Wren's Run Vanquisher? Yeah, it sucks for them, but their other creatures aren't going to be affected somuch. If you're aggro with some decent creatures on the board (Tarmogoyf, any of the crazy 3/4 and 4/4 creatures Shadowmoor came out with? Etc.), and doing the same to a Fury Sliver (Or dealing enough damage to kill any one vital sliver, really) after they declare attackers? It screws up their math in a brutal way, and you'll often find the non-sliver player blocking with creatures that would've died under the Double-strike onslaught beforehand. Yeah, once you get enough slivers out you'll have enough momentum to win the game- but if there's any destruction involved, destroying one sliver often hurts the other slivers in a bad way.

Some slivers are fairly cost-efficient for what they do. Sinew Sliver, Essence Sliver, Gemhide Sliver, Two-Headed sliver, etc. can have subtle effects that win the game- but they're nothing in comparison to the old slivers that made the deck truly frustrating. Examples of the latter such as Root Sliver, Quick Sliver, Toxin Sliver, Crystalline Sliver, Muscle Sliver? They made the deck a lot quicker and a lot harder to handle- especially Crystalline Sliver.

Yeah, if you include the new slivers with the old, making an old-school slivers deck competitive is very doable. But as String_Theory so eloquently put it, they're a bit slow for aggro in comparison to the other tribes. =x But that's just me talking.

Type 1 and 1.5 slivers can be amazing. In standard they suck. People where I play stopped playing slivers when Ravnica rotated out.