Sliver Hivelord
Legendary Creature — Sliver
Sliver creatures you control have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGRUW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $19.11
- EDHREC rank
- #3719
Sliver Hivelord makes your entire Sliver army indestructible the moment it lands — every boardwipe your opponents cast becomes a blank. The First Sliver decks run it as a near-auto-include because cascading into a five-mana indestructibility anthem is game-ending pressure, not just a nice bonus.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The First Sliver
The First Sliver cascades through your entire deck, and Sliver Hivelord is the payoff that makes the resulting board impossible to answer with sweepers — once it's in play, your opponents need exile-based removal for every individual threat, which they almost never have.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sliver Hivelord does its real work — indestructibility as a continuous anthem is backbreaking in a format full of Wrath of God effects, and a five-color Sliver commander gives you access to the full tribe. In Legacy and Vintage, the five-mana cost is a steep ask in formats that end games on turn two or three, and the Sliver tribe lacks the redundancy support to make Hivelord consistently relevant. Modern Slivers exist as a fringe aggro deck, and Sliver Hivelord can show up as a late-game trump, though five mana is a stretch for that shell. It's a Commander card first, a curiosity in every other format.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
There's no clean budget replacement for what Sliver Hivelord does — indestructibility as a continuous anthem is unique to it in the tribe. Crystalline Sliver ($4–6) gives your team shroud instead, which stops targeted removal rather than boardwipes; it's cheaper and catches a different threat vector, but it doesn't save you from Cyclonic Rift or Supreme Verdict the way Sliver Hivelord does.
Price Context
Current price
$19.11 mid tier
At $19.11, Sliver Hivelord sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, reasonable enough that it doesn't break a Sliver build's budget on its own. The price reflects its near-universal inclusion in Sliver Commander decks; demand is steady and unlikely to soften as long as the tribe remains popular.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.