Screeching Sliver
Creature — Sliver
All Slivers have "
: Target player mills a card."
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #16674
Screeching Sliver turns every Sliver you control into a mill engine — tap any Sliver, target player mills a card. The catch is that milling one card at a time is almost never a meaningful threat unless you're running a dedicated Sliver-heavy deck with a clear mill or combo finish.
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, Screeching Sliver earns its slot only in Sliver tribal decks with a genuine mill or self-mill angle — the tap ability scales with board presence, but milling one card per activation is irrelevant in a 100-card format without mass redundancy. In Pauper, it's a cheap common-legal Sliver that fits tribal builds, though the mill output is just as marginal in 1v1 without a dedicated engine behind it. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient mill and Sliver support, so Screeching Sliver rarely competes there. It's legal in Oathbreaker, where the smaller deck size makes incremental mill fractionally more meaningful, but it's still a fringe inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Screeching Sliver sits firmly in bulk territory — you're not paying a premium for this effect. It holds that floor price because Sliver tribal demand provides a narrow but consistent audience; don't expect the price to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.