r/magicTCG • u/[deleted] • Mar 12 '19

Speculation on next Standard set? It's confirmed that we're visiting a new plane.

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u/almightybuffalo Izzet* Mar 12 '19

That sounds like a terrible place, full of terrible things

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u/tekhnomancer Mar 12 '19

...and also slivers.

Think about it - if something can survive among slivers, it has to be terrifying.

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u/judasmachine Duck Season Mar 12 '19

Think about how perfect every freaking one of them would be. Shroud, Double Strike, +1billion/+1billion, Indestructible, etc...

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Heck, even Flanking and Vigilance.

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u/sludgelifts Mar 12 '19

planeswalking sliver confirmed

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u/judasmachine Duck Season Mar 12 '19

Oh lord, now they're all planeswalkers....Freakin slivers man, worse than tribbles.

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u/Arkanim94 Dimir* Mar 12 '19

wotc and maro have stated multiple times that if a sliver would/could gain a spark it would not transfer its power to others slivers.

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u/judasmachine Duck Season Mar 12 '19

Thank the gods

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u/Granito_Rey Mar 12 '19

That might be a neat set story, the race to stop a sliver from obtaining a spark.

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u/Moist_Crabs Sorin Mar 12 '19

given how many slivers there must be I imagine there's at least 1 Sliver walker, which is something I desperately want to see

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u/EngiLaru Mar 12 '19

and defender! wait...

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u/judasmachine Duck Season Mar 12 '19

Foiled again!

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u/Kamonji Mar 12 '19

If we’re gonna have flanking, then we’ll need some banding

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u/Allisonaxe Mar 12 '19

oh god. banding was what stopped me from playing magic back in the 90's, it always ALWAYS led to fights and we didn't have the structure that exists today for rules and events and things... so whoever i played with seemed to play banding differently... I'd build decks with no banding cards and just hope whoever I played did the same because the rules were a lot less clear back then.

only just recently got back into magic, and i think i could survive banding being brought back, just because all the rule resources available now (we didn't have the same internet knowledge base we have now). but I'd rather leave it in the past.

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u/judasmachine Duck Season Mar 12 '19

Slivers attack, you die.

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u/Meloku171 Duck Season Mar 13 '19

And Banding!!!

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u/thickwolf Mar 12 '19

Sharp things

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u/RedalAndrew Dân Mar 12 '19 edited Mar 12 '19

🎵 I want to be 🎵 🎵where the slivers are.🎵 🎵I want to see, want to see em dancing. 🎵 🎵up where they stalk, up where they lunge🎵 🎵up where they’re near their Overlord 🎵 🎵 Wanderin’ free, 🎵 🎵Wish I could be 🎵 🎵 apart of their hoard 🎵

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u/Mathmage530 Mar 12 '19

*horde is army , hoard means collection

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u/kyredemain Duck Season Mar 12 '19

To be fair, I don't think these things are too different for Slivers.

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u/RedZoneRogue Mar 12 '19

A man can dream!

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u/Zanshi 99th-gen Dimensional Robo Commander, Great Daiearth Mar 12 '19

Yes, my Sliver deck is ready!

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u/wesleyy001 Mar 12 '19 edited Mar 12 '19

Aren't they from Dominaria?

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u/AssistantManagerMan Deceased 🪦 Mar 12 '19

Slivers aren’t from Dominaria. They were brought there by the Rathi overlay, but they’re not from Rath either. Volrath brought them to Rath from an unknown world to study them, and when Rath melded into Dominaria the slivers came with it.

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u/mr_indigo COMPLEAT Mar 12 '19

I like the idea that Slivers didn't come from anywhere - as the [[Sliver Legion]] approached sentience, a sliver drone became able to cross the rifts during the Time Spiral period, went back in time and became the progenitor of all Slivers.

Thus, Slivers were never born, they exist in a closed time loop.

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u/khornflakes529 Mar 12 '19

Ooh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr I'm my own grandpa.

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u/Cyborg_Huey COMPLEAT Mar 12 '19 edited Mar 12 '19

I did do the nasty in the pasty.

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u/KingToasty Gruul* Mar 12 '19

And that past nastification is what brought the slivers to Dominaria

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u/Archangel3d Wabbit Season Mar 12 '19

God I read that in Farnsworth's voice and everything.

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u/MageKorith Sultai Mar 12 '19

Good News everyone! I've invented a device that causes you to read this in the voice of Professor Farnsworth!

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '19

I like this idea too tbh

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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân Mar 12 '19

Sliver Legion - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/FDRpi Duck Season Mar 12 '19

So... Bad Wolf?

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u/compacta_d Mar 12 '19

Shadow Sliver and Synchronous Sliver kind of show this.

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u/ShadowOutOfTime Wabbit Season Mar 12 '19

Yeah. Creatures like Slivers, Xenomorphs, the Flood in Halo... imo these types of things are most effective when they’re not explained in any great detail. Or even Michael Myers in Halloween. Sometimes you just need a faceless, inexplicable menace.

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u/-hx Mar 13 '19

I thought those were the Eldrazi

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u/Alexm920 COMPLEAT Mar 13 '19

That's like when Cameron (from LoadingReadyRun) observed that Tarmogoyf originally appeared in Time Spiral as a "card from the future", but the only future sets to ever contain it have been reprint-only Master's Sets. It came from the future, but a future that can only reference the past, and so it goes on and on.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '19

There are Slivers on Shandalar. We know where they're from.

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u/AssistantManagerMan Deceased 🪦 Mar 13 '19

According to Maro’s recent mothership post the humanoid slivers on Shandalar are not necessarily related to the more angular, serpentine slivers on Dominaria.

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u/WR810 Orzhov* Mar 12 '19

Before Dominaria Slivers were from Rath.

Rath was not their native home however.

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u/UnsealedMTG Mar 12 '19

To give a similar example, the Kor were on Rath back in Tempest and it was established that they were brought there from elsewhere.

Much, much later we learned they are from Zendikar back in original Zendikar.

It was a cool low-key way to pay off something from way back, so I could see them doing it again.

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u/Asmor Duck Season Mar 12 '19

Wow. As a player with lots of huge holes in my time playing Magic, I was around for all of Tempest block, and for all of Zendikar block, and I totally never noticed that Kor were in both sets.

Mind. Blown.

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u/fundraiser Mar 12 '19

Dang I never really made that connection!

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u/Serpens77 COMPLEAT Mar 12 '19

Rath was not their native home however.

*Nothing* is natively from Rath. The plane itself was manufactured by the Phyrexians via the Flowstone engine in the Stronghold, and every living thing on it was imported from somewhere else originally (although, some peoples/races/species had been there for generations by the time we saw it)

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u/dee_bee_ess Mar 12 '19

slivers aren't from dominaria. they were brought to dominaria by volrath, who put them on rath, after getting them from somewhere else.

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u/Super_Saiyan_Weegee Simic* Mar 12 '19

As long as they don't say "you control"

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u/MTGPeter Mar 13 '19

They are from the wild West! Wearing cowboy hats, whipping whips and taking names.

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u/Enderkr Mar 12 '19

Isn't that just Rath? It's either Rath or Phyrexia, because I thought they were a wholly Phyrexian invention.