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Gemhide Sliver

Creature — Sliver

All Slivers have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3101
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Gemhide Sliver card art
Gemhide Sliver turns every Sliver on the battlefield into a mana dork, collapsing the cost curve on any tribal pile and letting you flood the board multiple turns ahead of schedule. Sliver Queen and The First Sliver both lean on it hard — it's the reason those decks can chain spells in one explosive turn rather than spacing them across three.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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The First Sliver

The First Sliver

89.1% of decks · synergy 0.82

The First Sliver cascades into more Slivers, and Gemhide Sliver ensures each new body immediately contributes mana — the engine snowballs fastest when every creature you resolve also ramps you into the next one.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Gemhide Sliver does its best work, since five-color Sliver decks need a critical mass of mana production to go off, and a two-mana piece that scales with your creature count is exactly that. In Legacy and Vintage, dedicated Sliver shells are fringe but functional, and Gemhide Sliver earns a slot there as one of the few redundant copies of the Manaweft Sliver effect. Pauper is the other format worth noting — it's common, legal, and any aggressive Sliver build in the format wants the full four copies. Pioneer and Standard don't apply.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

3,383 decks
Sliver OverlordGemhide SliverIntruder AlarmHeart Sliver

Sliver OverlordGemhide SliverIntruder AlarmHeart Sliver

Cast a subset of spells in your library; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures; Near-infinite ETB

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Price data isn't currently available for Gemhide Sliver, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Historically it's been a bulk-to-low-cost common, the kind of card you pick up without thinking twice when building any Sliver deck.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.