Well, the price is right. One colorless mana
will turn any card into a 1/1 for 1. Of course,
it's been a while since a vanilla 1/1 was
playable, but the potential to create a
near-unlimited supply has potential. And they're
Slivers.
Now, if you're playing Slivers, then you
probably just want to play your Slivers instead
of discarding them to Mr. Smith here. And if
your opponent is playing them, there's better
ways to turn that all against him or her. But
any renewable source of creature tokens is
usually worth consideration, especially in
Limited.
Constructed- 2
Casual- 3
Limited- 3
Aethereal
Friday -
Sliversmith
Now this is a fun one. The ability to make
slivers over and over has been seen before, but
that's on a 5 color card. This doesn't even have
a color requirement, so it can go into any
sliver deck. I doubt this will see play in
constructed, because slivers aren't used in
Standard, and in Block the sliver deck there
will probably just get slowed down by this.
In casual, however, you play this in your sliver
deck, especially if you can't get a hold of
Queens.
In limited, maindeck worthy if you're running
slivers, and sidedeck worthy if you're not
(bring it in against their slivers). At worst it
is repeatable 1/1 creatures with no color
requirement.
What can I say about slivers. I hate them, I
hate them, I hate them and did i mention i hate
them? I see them every week at FNM along with
thallids/saprolings. Yes it may be fun to get
all your slivers out and swing for the win but
how often does that happen? But as for casual
play slivers can be fun. And this guy is a mini
sliver queen. The ability to put in slivers with
all the effects each turn. A must have in any
sliverdeck. Only if he was a sliver too.
Constructed:3
Casual:3
Limited:2
David Fanany
Player since
1995
Sliversmith
Metallic Sliver was never a very impressive card
even in the days of cheaper Slivers (Winged
Sliver springs to mind), and it's not much
better now, even when you can turn every card in
your hand into one. Sliversmith is all right in
limited play, but you really need at least one
of Sinew Sliver and Might Sliver and possibly
more than that to make the tokens into actual
threats. I wouldn't call it a must-play, but if
you have lots of Slivers it's decent.
Constructed: 1/5
Casual: 3/5
Limited: 3/5
Arcane
Sliversmith
Constructed: Slivers don’t really work in
constructed; the only sliver decks that are
doing really good things are the Wild Pair
sliver decks which don’t benefit from the token
producing spellshaper.
Casual: Slivers are a favorite of casual players
all over the place, but one of the greatest
things about slivers is that each one brings a
new, powerful ability. Yes the Sliversmith can
help you produce lots of the hive to benefit
from the abilities of your current slivers, but
the problem is all your opponents have to do is
eliminate the “real’ slivers with abilities to
leave you with an army of unimpressive 1/1’s.
I’d say more but really the Sliversmith carries
with it the disadvantages to running slivers AND
running spellshapers, and doesn’t really make up
for those disadvantages.
Limited: Ironically enough the Sliversmith is
much better as an anti-sliver weapon than in a
sliver deck itself for TS limited. This allows
you to gain the abilities of your opponent’s
slivers without giving any back in return which
is a rarity when dealing slivers against
slivers. Also by being colorless it means that
you can use it to counter slivers regardless of
what colors you’re playing. Sideboard card
really, but serves a good purpose.
Constructed: 1
Casual: 1.5
Limited: 2
PsychoAnime
#1
Magic Noob in Canada since 2002
Instead of playing this and converting my cards to
Slivers, I'd rather
just play more Slivers in the first place. I
would consider playing
this if itself was a Sliver, but it isn't.
