Taunting Sliver
Creature — Sliver
Sliver creatures you control have "When this creature enters, goad target creature an opponent controls." (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $1.48
- EDHREC rank
- #9433
Taunting Sliver forces all creatures your opponents control to block it if able, turning every attack into a political grenade — point it at the right player and their entire board gets eaten by your Slivers. The cost is real: this card paints a target on itself immediately, so it rarely survives a full table rotation, but in The First Sliver lists it only needs to resolve once to reshape a combat step.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The First Sliver
The First Sliver cascades into Taunting Sliver off nearly any spell, and the tap-to-cascade engine means you can reload threats fast enough that losing the Sliver to a chump block doesn't matter — the damage was already done.
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 Taunting Sliver actually gets to do its job: the multiplayer table creates real incentive to weaponize the forced-block effect against whichever opponent is ahead, and Sliver tribal density means the effect compounds when multiple attackers hit simultaneously. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but functionally absent — competitive environments don't support Sliver tribal, and a 1/1 for two mana with no immediate impact isn't surviving long enough for the effect to matter. Taunting Sliver is a Commander card through and through, built for the board-state complexity that only shows up at a four-player table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.48 cheap tier
At $1.48, Taunting Sliver sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to include without deliberation in any Sliver build. It's a tribal-specific card with a narrow audience, so the price is unlikely to climb unless a new Sliver commander drives a spike in deck construction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.