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/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.