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Sliver Gravemother
Legendary Creature — Sliver
Sliver Gravemother wants a deck that is built around one creature type, like Elves or Dragons. It leads the ready-made Sliver Swarm deck (2023).
- Mana cost
- All five colors ()
- Power / toughness6 / 6
- RarityMythic
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to Slivers you control.
Each Sliver creature card in your graveyard has encore 
, where X is its mana value.
Encore 
(, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
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Cards That Fit Sliver Gravemother
Picked for what they do in Sliver Gravemother's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Sliver Gravemother's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.
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Decks Led by Sliver Gravemother
Sliver Gravemother leads a ready-made deck.PreconShort for preconstructed deck: a ready-to-play deck sold in a box by Wizards of the Coast. A Commander precon comes with its commander and all 100 cards, so you can play it straight away and change cards later.Open the full glossary
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Sliver SwarmOfficial precon
All 100 Cards
Commander · 1
Creatures · 43
- 1×Blade Sliver
- 1×Blur Sliver
- 1×Bonescythe Sliver
- 1×Bonesplitter Sliver
- 1×Brood Sliver
- 1×Capricious Sliver
- 1×Cleaving Sliver
- 1×Clot Sliver
- 1×Cloudshredder Sliver
- 1×Constricting Sliver
- 1×Crypt Sliver
- 1×Crystalline Sliver
- 1×Diffusion Sliver
- 1×Firewake Sliver
- 1×Galerider Sliver
- 1×Gemhide Sliver
- 1×Harmonic Sliver
- 1×Hatchery Sliver
- 1×Hibernation Sliver
- 1×Hollowhead Sliver
- 1×Lavabelly Sliver
- 1×Lazotep Sliver
- 1×Manaweft Sliver
- 1×Megantic Sliver
- 1×Might Sliver
- 1×Necrotic Sliver
- 1×Quick Sliver
- 1×Realmwalker
- 1×Regal Sliver
- 1×Rukarumel, Biologist
- 1×Sentinel Sliver
- 1×Shifting Sliver
- 1×Sinew Sliver
- 1×Sliver Hivelord
- 1×Spiteful Sliver
- 1×Striking Sliver
- 1×Synapse Sliver
- 1×Syphon Sliver
- 1×Taunting Sliver
- 1×Titan of Littjara
- 1×Two-Headed Sliver
- 1×Venom Sliver
- 1×Winged Sliver
Instants · 1
Sorceries · 10
Artifacts · 7
Enchantments · 1
Lands · 37
- 1×Ash Barrens
- 1×Canopy Vista
- 1×Cinder Glade
- 1×Command Tower
- 1×Exotic Orchard
- 1×Flood Plain
- 3×Forest
- 1×Frontier Bivouac
- 1×Grasslands
- 1×Irrigated Farmland
- 2×Island
- 1×Jungle Shrine
- 2×Mountain
- 1×Mountain Valley
- 1×Mystic Monastery
- 1×Nomad Outpost
- 1×Opulent Palace
- 1×Path of Ancestry
- 2×Plains
- 1×Prairie Stream
- 1×Rocky Tar Pit
- 1×Sandsteppe Citadel
- 1×Savage Lands
- 1×Scattered Groves
- 1×Seaside Citadel
- 1×Secluded Courtyard
- 1×Sheltered Thicket
- 1×Smoldering Marsh
- 1×Sunken Hollow
- 2×Swamp
- 1×Unclaimed Territory
Rulings for Sliver Gravemother
explain how Sliver Gravemother works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary
Each token must attack the appropriate player if able.
Exiling the card with encore is a cost to activate the ability. Once you announce that you're activating it, no player may take actions until you've finished. They can't try to remove the card from your graveyard to stop you from paying the cost.
If an effect stops a token from attacking a specific player, that token can attack any player, planeswalker, or battle, or not attack at all. If the effect stops the token from attacking a specific player unless a cost is paid, you don't have to pay that cost unless you want to attack that player.
If one of the tokens can't attack for any reason (such as being tapped), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having it attack, you aren't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either.
If one of the tokens somehow is under another player's control as the delayed triggered ability resolves, you can't sacrifice that token. It remains on the battlefield indefinitely, even if you regain control of it later.
If you control more than one legendary Sliver with the same name and the "legend rule" begins applying to them again (perhaps because Sliver Gravemother leaves the battlefield) you'll immediately have to comply with the rule and put all but one of those Slivers into the graveyard.
Opponents who have left the game aren't counted when determining how many tokens to create.
The "legend rule" is the rule that states that if a player controls two or more legendary permanents with the same name, that player chooses one of them, and the rest are put into their owners' graveyards.
The tokens copy only what's on the original card. Effects that modified that creature when it was previously on the battlefield won't be copied.
While the "legend rule" doesn't apply to Slivers you control, you can control any number of legendary Slivers with the same name and none of them will be put into the graveyard.
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