As the last deck from Time Spiral, I left a real treat: “Fun with Fungus”, a Black-Green deck working with the Fungus/Saproling combo of tribals. Fungi is a tribal I am very familiar with since I played a Black-Green Fungus deck for years. I mean, I played it enough to earn the title of mushroom man, which was not because I consumed or smoked any, but rather because I played them as my go-to deck. I tried a lot of builds over the years, so it is kinda nice to get to talk about the deck that started it all.

And here is yet another Time Spiral deck that I actually owned back in the day: “Reality Fracture” is a Blue-Red deck that makes use of one of the key mechanics from the Time Spiral block because the deck works with Suspend. Suspend is a keyword I absolutely love, because the idea of paying with your in-game time instead of using mana seems like an interesting angle to take. You also regularly manage to catch people off-guard with whatever it is you bring into the game via Suspend, despite the fact that you need to track the number of turns until the arrival of the card by removing time counters from it. But while the color combination is probably the best you can start with when making the most out of Suspend, the question still is whether “Reality Fracture” would be a good starting point to build a deck out of; and I will try to give the answer to that question in the following article.

For today’s article, we talk about the alpha-tribal deck in Magic the Gathering: Slivers. Lots of snake-like creatures serving a hivemind and providing their own abilities to the entire swarm make for a nightmarish combination to play against seeing how even an early-game board is just a ticking time bomb. Slivers are also a theme that has been used multiple time to make Preconstructed Decks, with Tempest‘s “The Slivers” already available as an article on Cubic Creativity, while “Sliver Shivers” from Legions will eventually join the ranks of my deck reviews. For today, Time Spiral gave us “Sliver Evolution”, a White-Red-Green Sliver deck that is just by color combination alone more of an Aggro deck than a Control one. Doesn’t matter though, since Slivers can do them all as you will see over the course of this article.