Subject: [Deck] Anti-Sliver
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 21:33:43 GMT
From: mspeener@stratagemnet.com (Mark Speener)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

I built this deck to specifically combat the outbreak of Counter
Sliver. I won a really small tourney with it last night. I beat a
Counter Sliver on the way to the final.

Deck: Anti-Sliver v.64

       4 Muscle Sliver
Should be in any sliver deck.

       4 Clot Sliver
Make 'em hard to kill,

       2 Barbed Sliver
and pumpable.

       3 Spined Sliver
Better not block! Key card!

       4 Heart Sliver
Another key!

       2 Heartstone
Reduce costs for pump/regen.

       2 Mirri's Guile
Topdeck what you need.

       1 Worldly Tutor
Fetch a key sliver. Also a shuffler.

       4 Wall of Blossoms
Early D.

       4 Diabolic Edict
       4 Incinerate
Creature control.

       2 Overrun
Kill card. Never drew it.

Land:
       2 Mox Diamond
       5 Forest
       3 Swamp
       3 Mountain
       1 Karplusan Forest
       1 Pine Barrens
       2 Mogg Hollows
       1 Reflecting Pool
       2 Cinder Marsh
       1 City of Brass
       2 Undiscovered Paradise
       1 Gemstone Mine
       1 Volrath's Stronghold

This deck isn't a 4-5 turn kill deck. Get 3-4 different slivers out
(Muscle, Heart, Clot), create creature parity then drop the Spined and
attack. If you catch your opponent tapped out (expecting creature
parity to keep you at bay) then you can regen what he can block and
kill. If he doesn't block, pump the damn things up to 11.

The land mix contains almost every non-basic land I own. The mix
worked pretty good. I was never color screwed. I played most of one
game with a Mox and a forest and won easily.

I'm thinking of dropping the Overrun's altogether and adding another
Heartstone and Stronghold. Heartstones make the deck play so much
nicer. Strongholds are just too cool against any kind of creature
control.

No sideboard as of yet. Major problems I see are fliers. I haven't
played it against any of the major archetypes yet to identify any
other problems.

Any suggestions?



Mark Speener
Scrubby Portal Convert
Forgetting to do stuff on the other guys turn
since 1997.