A series of summon -type cards in Magic: the Gathering, in which every creature granted some specific special feature to every other sliver, making slivers in game mostly each other's clones, with each getting stronger with every new sliver in game.

• Acidic Sliver - suicide for 2 damage to any target
• Armor Sliver - 2 colorless for +0/+1
• Barbed Sliver - 2 colorless for +1/+0
• Clot Sliver - 2 colorless for regeneration
• Crystalline Sliver - protection for spell targeting
• Heart Sliver - quick attack
• Hibernation Sliver - 2 life to unsummon
• Horned Sliver - trample
• Metallic Sliver - 2 colorless and suicide for forget attack
• Mnemonic Sliver - 2 colorless and suicide for extra card
• Muscle Sliver - +1/+1
• Sliver Queen - 2 colorless for creating a new sliver (ouch)
• Spined Sliver - rampage
• Talon Sliver - first strike
• Victual Sliver - 2 colorless and suicide to heal owner by 4
• Winged Sliver - flying

Sliv"er (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slivered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Slivering.] [See Slive, v. t.]

To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.

Shak.

They 'll sliver thee like a turnip. Sir W. Scott.

 

© Webster 1913.

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Sliv"er, n.

1.

A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.

2.

A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.

3. pl.

Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.

[Local, U.S.]

Bartlett.

 

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