Clearly what you wanted to do was give Akroma more abilities.
Flying, First Strike, Vigilance, Trample, Haste, Protection from Red and from Black?
Hah! How about Flying, Flanking, Double Strike, "Lifelink", Vigilance, Trample, Haste, Protection from Colors
Akroma, Angel of Slivers can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.
Akroma, Angel of Slivers gets +1/+1 if you control a swamp
: Regenerate Akroma
Better yet? Screw that, Progenitus.
Overkill? Nonsense, it's not overkill till my opponent cries!
Posted By:
SunshineTheBlond
(5/5/2011 12:34:36 PM)
Could also be useful if you decided to throw some good Slivers into one of your decks.
Say you throw a few Brood Slivers into a Devour deck. Without other Slivers to damage an opponent, you'd have to use the Brood Sliver to do the damage, making him vulnerable to strong blockers and similar things. Yeah, you could give him a Whispersilk Cloak, but dropping a Hivestone to make all your creatures into Slivers gives you more choices.
Or you could throw it in with some Coat of Arms so your creatures are getting +1/+1 for every creature you control.
Posted By:
Diachronos
(1/24/2010 8:44:27 PM)
i made a nice casual combo deck with it once. flanking and bushido, so knights and samurai, then i added this and Sidewinder Sliver. worked pretty well.
Posted By:
Zinniz
(9/25/2009 7:46:49 PM)
The only sliver I use is vampiric sliver because it can stand on its own. With hivestone out it just makes my army all the better.
Posted By:
Tommy9898
(2/22/2010 9:32:49 PM)
Shifting Sliver to make all your creatures unblockable, useful with cards that do stuff when dealing combat damage (like the obvious example Phage the Untouchable,)
Posted By:
Kurraga
(4/28/2010 4:36:53 AM)
This works for certain non-basic lands too right? When I saw this I thought of Creeping Tar Pit and Celestial Colonnade becoming sliver creatures, getting those other sliver benefits and maybe even setting off Dormant Sliver and Sliver Legion.
Posted By:
lanis01
(5/6/2010 9:16:37 PM)
am i the only one thinking about the new eldrazi cards? i mean 0/1s arent threatening, until they become 3/4 double strikers with flying....
Posted By:
stille_nacht
(6/12/2010 3:14:00 PM)
no your your not the only one thinking add eldrazi. i mean forget the tokens for a sec, and imagine Emrakul( who is ridiculus its self) with trample, vigilance, frenzy 1, double strike, and "this creature cant be blocked except by two or more creatures". then toss in ghostflame sliver to balence out All is Dust.
Posted By:
Novox_Prayer
(7/29/2010 8:06:00 AM)
A nicely costed little tribal piece.
Posted By:
Polychromatic
(3/20/2011 12:44:44 AM)
Its a card with alot of potential for sure, Green/White Saproling/Sliver deck would be pretty wicked alright. Sinew, Muscle, Might, Hivestone, +saproling producers such as Fists of Ironwood to pump out the numbers. It is however, as someone said, card disadvantage, straight up you want to get that card fast and get it into play, so you want to run multiple copies generally, and as such is just deadweight after the first hits the battlefeild.
Posted By:
Ancient_Mossdog
(4/1/2011 3:56:00 AM)