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Lavabelly Sliver

Creature — Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have "When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and you gain 1 life."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{R}{W}
Color identity
RW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Masters
Price
$0.65
EDHREC rank
#5318
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Lavabelly Sliver card art
Lavabelly Sliver gives every Sliver you control a enters-the-battlefield ping — one damage to any target, one life gained — which turns any mass token generation or cascade chain into a serious drain-and-burn clock. The catch is that the effect only fires on ETB, so it does nothing to the board you already have, and it competes for Sliver slots with protection pieces like Hibernation Sliver; run it when The First Sliver is cascading through the deck and each new Sliver arrival is an event, not a background process.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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The First Sliver

The First Sliver

61.8% of decks · synergy 0.58

The First Sliver cascades on every Sliver cast, meaning a single spell can chain into multiple ETBs in one turn — Lavabelly Sliver converts every link in that cascade into a free ping, letting The First Sliver decks close out games that would otherwise stall on board parity.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the natural home for Lavabelly Sliver — 40 life means the incremental drain matters less in a vacuum, but a Sliver deck going wide can stack enough ETBs in a single turn to drop multiple players simultaneously. In Legacy and Vintage, Slivers see almost no competitive play, so Lavabelly Sliver is essentially a non-factor in those formats despite being legal. Modern Slivers exist as a fringe tribal deck, and the card is at least worth considering there as a way to punish opponents who stall the combat step, though the ETB-only trigger makes it weaker than pure combat threats.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.65 bulk tier

At $0.65, Lavabelly Sliver sits firmly in bulk territory, which is appropriate for a card whose ceiling is limited to one specific tribal archetype. It's a safe pickup at this price for any Sliver build — just don't expect the market to move on it.

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