Good in Sliver decks! In limited, you really
don’t want to put this in your deck unless you
know your opponent has artifacts or enchantments
for you to destroy. In other words, Harmonic
Sliver is strictly sideboardsville. The future
is brighter for this card in constructed, where
Sliver decks will find Harmonic Sliver very
useful indeed…in the sideboard. Another problem
in limited is that Harmonic Sliver is uncommon,
just not worth worrying about.
Whte and green have some of the most powerful
Slivers in Time Spiral. This isn't one of them.
But artifacts and enchantments do cause
problems, and Harmony here makes an excellent
method of maindeck removal for them that doesn't
become useless when your opponent doesn't play
them, because you still get a Sliver for your
effort. Worth a few slots of your deck anyway.
I'm a fan of this card. One of the problems with
sliver decks of old is that you didn't want to
put enchantment or artifact removal into the
deck because that's one turn you wouldn't be
drawing another sliver. Harmonic Sliver gets
around that and gives your deck more artifact
and enchantment removal than you'll ever find a
use for. It's not a tough sliver, but it's a
team player. And handy for removing your
opponent's Hivestone when they think they've
been really clever with their sideboarding.
A 3-mana 1/1 had best have a really great
ability on it. Frankly, I think this one doesn't
make it. It's pretty good in limited if you need
to knock off a pesky artifact or enchantment
(but keeps you from playing any slivers if you
have the only artifact or enchantment in play).
In constructed, just play naturalize or
disenchant.
Constructed - 1
Casual - 1
Limited - 3
Aethereal
Harmonic Sliver
All your slivers become 187s that can hit an
artifact or enchantment. This is not bad for a
couple reasons. First, this ability triggers off
the first one you play, so the first one is not
a pointless 1/1 for 3. Second, you can just play
four of these and go nuts. This is an effective
way to take care of artifacts or enchantments,
although it is weak. It depends on the deck, but
generally I would play Indrik Stomphowler before
I played this.
In casual, this should be included in your
sliver deck if you have players that play
annoying artifacts or enchantments. They won't
be able to keep anything out with this around.
In limited, I'd sideboard it and board it in
against an annoying enchantment (*cough* Sacred
Mesa). Not really maindeck material, though, as
it's a 1/1 for 3 with an ability that may not be
relevant.
