Magma Sliver
Creature — Sliver
All Slivers have "
: Target Sliver creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Slivers on the battlefield."
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #11479
Magma Sliver turns your entire Sliver board into a collective firebreathing engine — every Sliver can pour mana into any attack, threatening lethal damage out of nowhere. The cost is steep at five mana, but in a The First Sliver cascade shell that problem mostly solves itself.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The First Sliver
The First Sliver cascades into Magma Sliver and then keeps cascading down the chain, meaning you often land this and additional pump pieces in the same turn — at that point every attacker is threatening to one-shot someone at the table.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Magma Sliver actually lives — the Sliver tribe is deep enough here to make the firebreathing ability genuinely threatening, and the five-mana cost is acceptable in a 40-life format where the game goes long enough to use it. Legacy and Vintage are both legal but offer nothing for it: competitive Sliver builds in those formats lean on speed and disruption, and a five-drop that requires more mana to do anything is simply too slow. Magma Sliver is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number before buying. Magma Sliver is a casual-only tribal piece with a narrow home, which historically keeps cards like this affordable.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.