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Hibernation Sliver

Creature — Sliver

All Slivers have "Pay 2 life: Return this permanent to its owner's hand."

CMC
2
Mana cost
{U}{B}
Color identity
BU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Masters
Price
$1.37
EDHREC rank
#5252
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Hibernation Sliver card art
Hibernation Sliver gives every Sliver you control a repeatable bounce ability that doubles as protection, letting you pull any Sliver back to hand in response to removal, exile, or a board wipe — the cost is two life per activation, which adds up but rarely kills you before it saves the board. In shells led by The First Sliver or Morophon, the Boundless, where slivers cascade into more slivers, the ability to loop a key piece back to hand and replay it is worth every drop of life.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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The First Sliver

The First Sliver

67.7% of decks · synergy 0.63

The First Sliver cascades every Sliver cast, so bouncing a Sliver with Hibernation Sliver and replaying it triggers another cascade — turning a protection tool into a card-advantage engine that refills your hand and board simultaneously.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Hibernation Sliver is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually sees play — Sliver tribal is a Commander archetype, not a Legacy staple, and the 60-card formats have faster, more efficient threats that push creature-tribal packages out of the conversation. In Commander, the life payment is almost irrelevant across a 40-life game, and the board protection it provides against spot removal or targeted exile is genuinely hard to replicate in the tribe. Legacy and Vintage are legal but impractical — the format's pace means you rarely get to activate a two-mana bounce ability before the game ends.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$1.37 cheap tier

At $1.37, Hibernation Sliver sits firmly in budget territory and is a straightforward inclusion for any Sliver Commander build — the price reflects its narrow tribal focus rather than any lack of power within that context. It's a role-player, not a speculation target, and that price is unlikely to move dramatically unless Slivers get a major reprint or breakout card.

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