Mesmeric Sliver
Creature — Sliver
All Slivers have "When this permanent enters, you may fateseal 1." (To fateseal 1, its controller looks at the top card of an opponent's library, then they may put that card on the bottom of that library.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #16976
Mesmeric Sliver gives every Sliver you control a forced-scry trigger on entering the battlefield — stack a few creatures and you're sculpting your draws every turn for free. The two-mana cost is negligible for what amounts to a permanent, scaling card-selection engine in any Sliver shell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Mesmeric Sliver earns its slot in any Sliver tribal build because the effect compounds — ten Slivers entering across a game means ten scry triggers, and that kind of sustained library filtering separates the good draws from the dead ones. Outside Commander, it's a fringe consideration: Pauper is its most realistic competitive home, where cheap tribal synergies matter and card selection is scarce at common, but Sliver tribal isn't a pillar of that format. Legacy and Vintage have access to Mesmeric Sliver but will never run it — the power bar is simply too high for a two-mana scry-one enabler to compete. It's a Commander card wearing format-legal clothing everywhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Mesmeric Sliver isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for current market rates. As a tribal-specific common with a narrow use case, it has historically sat near bulk pricing — worth grabbing a copy whenever you're ordering Sliver pieces regardless.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.