Is Pulmonic Sliver good in Commander?

Pulmonic Sliver

Creature — Sliver

All Sliver creatures have flying.
All Slivers have "If this permanent would be put into a graveyard, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead."

CMC: 5
Mana cost
Color identity: W
Rarity: rare
Set: Time Spiral Remastered
Price: $1.85
EDHREC rank: #8698

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Pulmonic Sliver gives every Sliver flying and lets your Slivers dodge death by going to the top of your library instead of the graveyard — that persistence is the real prize, not the evasion. The five-mana cost is steep, but paired with Basal Sliver for sacrifice fodder and a The First Sliver cascade engine churning through your deck, the recursion loop is oppressive enough to justify it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

The First Sliver

31.7% of decks · synergy 0.30

The First Sliver turns every Sliver cast into a cascade chain, and Pulmonic Sliver's library-topping death replacement means your Slivers keep cycling back into that engine rather than hitting a graveyard where hate shuts them down.

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	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Pulmonic Sliver does its best work — the singleton format means redundancy matters, and the ability to loop Slivers back to the top of your library through repeated sacrifice or board wipes is a meaningful form of resilience across long multiplayer games. Legacy and Vintage both permit it, but Sliver strategies there are niche and the five-mana slot is brutal in formats where the game is often decided by turn three. Modern is legal but functionally the same story — Pulmonic Sliver is too slow for the format's pace and the tribe doesn't have a real competitive foothold there. Stick to Commander; that's the format where the card earns its slot.

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