Shifting Sliver
Creature — Sliver
Slivers can't be blocked except by Slivers.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $4.13
- EDHREC rank
- #4125
Shifting Sliver makes your entire Sliver army unblockable by non-Slivers — a static, permanent evasion anthem that turns a wide board into a guaranteed combat win. The First Sliver decks run it at near-80% inclusion because there is no cheaper way to push that much damage through.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The First Sliver
The First Sliver cascades into Shifting Sliver and immediately grants the whole team unblockable evasion, converting every subsequent cascade hit into a threat that can't be chump-blocked by an opponent's non-Sliver creatures — it's the cleanest path from wide board to lethal.
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 Shifting Sliver does its best work: multiplayer boards are full of non-Sliver blockers, and a single anthem that blanket-grants unblockability to every creature you control is backbreaking at a four-player table. In Legacy and Vintage, Sliver tribal is a fringe strategy, and Shifting Sliver sees occasional play there as part of all-in Sliver packages, though the formats' speed means it often doesn't survive long enough to matter. Outside those formats it's not legal, but it barely needs to be — Commander is its natural home, and that's where it earns its keep.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.13 cheap tier
At $4.13, Shifting Sliver sits at the high end of cheap but is still reasonable for an auto-include in any Sliver Commander deck. It's a narrow tribal piece with no home outside Sliver strategies, so the price is driven entirely by Commander demand and is unlikely to drop significantly as long as The First Sliver remains popular.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.