Awaken the Ancient. Please look through the comments on that one. Wizards listens to new players. They ask whether things make sense. Then they make sure everything makes sense to new players.
There's no reason for this to grant haste, but my guess is that they saw new players arguing about it in a playtest and decided they could circumvent the need for rules knowledge by having it grant haste as a freebie.
This isn't about just Slivers-- they've made A LOT of very key decisions, on things like Rules Changes, Card Designs and Developments, and they stuck the "Sliver" creature type on here because new players thought they were playing like Slivers, but they -Didn't- go in from the Get Go wanting to ReDesign Slivers.
They HAD "ReDesign Slivers" on a list of things to do, but it was kind of shoehorned, and last-minuted. The ReDesign of Slivers should have been as important to them as "Make the Set about Chandra". I.E., it should have waited for a set when ... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(7/19/2013 12:27:29 AM)
In all truth, I'd rather have Bonesplitter Sliver. Even though this has a bigger body, I'd rather have my static boosting abilities as inexpensive as possible.
I mean, would you play a Sliver that wasn't Blade Sliver that cost 
, was a 1/1 and had "All slivers get +2/+0" (it's called Machete Sliver)? I think you would. It's why people play Honor of the Pure over Glorious Anthem.... erm, maybe not exactly.
Regardless, I've found that in EDH, it's better to have the older Slivers. Although Changeling's are prevalent, I've saved myself from the wrath of a Roil Elemental because I'd still gain the boost.
Posted By:
Ferlord
(7/25/2013 10:55:08 AM)
Remember when "Slivers keep adapting", thus Slivers keep adapting. (Oh my, an old idea continuing?! Shocking, I know. Maybe Wizards DOES come up with ideas...?! Whatever shall bashers bash next now? )
So while the basic sliver form was perfectly fine to survive in Rath, decimate Otaria, thrive in Dominaria and still exist years into the future, all of a sudden they need legs and dredlocks to survive?
Posted By:
SilentOppressor
(8/9/2013 2:41:46 PM)
That's not a sliver.
Posted By:
tcollins
(7/31/2013 3:43:15 PM)
To all of you whining about the art direction and the lack of the buff being global. These weren't going to be slivers originally. Than someone was like, Hey these are like slivers, and then everyone was like "WHY NOT MAKE MORE".
Posted By:
Bufzar
(7/14/2013 12:33:14 PM)
@ slivers in general:
Glad they got new art, and don't look like kids drawings anymore.
Not so glad they didn't get much else new. A few unique slivers with tapping abilities would've been nice.
Posted By:
Beyond.Malachi
(8/10/2013 6:22:35 AM)
Great art on this one. I never played the old slivers because they looked like gross bird hatchlings. The only ones I'm splashing are Crystalline, Harmonic, and Overlord. I only ever play friendly games in a group of pals, so I'm not overly concerned about being competitive. Will be fun to be on the two-headed giant team of my friend that plays a classic sliver deck, though I'd feel selfish since my guys wouldn't be helping hers.
Hopefully slivers continue to evolve and one becomes a planeswalker.
Posted By:
Vulf
(9/1/2013 2:57:41 AM)
I'm gonna lose a lot of games of limited to a card that's rated 2 stars at the time of this comment.
Posted By:
anotherfan321
(7/11/2013 9:45:54 PM)
I don't get why this is supposed to be one of the best M14 Slivers. It's horribly overcosted, when you consider you can get the job done better with multiple Predatory Sliver
Posted By:
DeXtrovert
(8/26/2013 6:17:30 PM)