Striking Sliver
Creature — Sliver
Sliver creatures you control have first strike. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $0.99
- EDHREC rank
- #4963
Striking Sliver gives every Sliver you control first strike for one red mana — a combat-wide anthem effect stapled to a 1/1 body. In The First Sliver shells where every slot cascades into another piece, a one-drop that passively wins combat math across your whole board earns its place unconditionally.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The First Sliver
The First Sliver wants Striking Sliver because the cascade chain rewards low-cost Slivers, and a one-mana piece that grants first strike to the entire board turns every attack into a one-sided trade — your team hits before blockers can deal damage back.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Striking Sliver is a role-player in one archetype and essentially invisible everywhere else — if you're not running a Sliver tribal pile, it does nothing. In Pauper, Sliver aggro is a real deck and first strike on the whole team is a legitimate payoff at one mana, making this one of the few formats where Striking Sliver competes outside of tribal Commander. Modern and Legacy Sliver strategies exist on the fringe, and Striking Sliver earns a slot there for the same reason: the floor is a 1/1 for one, the ceiling is a board-wide combat keyword that closes games. Pioneer is legal but Sliver density there is thin enough that the card rarely sees play.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.99 bulk tier
At $0.99, Striking Sliver sits at the high end of bulk — cheap enough to pick up without a second thought, but not a throwaway quarter-bin card. The price is stable; it's a narrowly played tribal piece with a clear home, so it's unlikely to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.