Legacy Slivers

There is also the new Thorncaster Sliver, and this deck could use Mana Echoes and Training Grounds.

Thanks for the suggestions. I actually have some reasoning for not using some of those listed slivers. I have coat of arms instead of sliver legion. I know that sliver legion is 10x better but... I had hunter slivers, but found that the provoke became useless with shifting slivers in play. I also had quick sliver, but I found that it wasn't as effective because I don't really need to surprise anyone with slivers, and generally I just don't have spare mana at the start of a game to bring them out on opponents' turns before I untap. Plus with sliver queen out, I can just pop them out that way. Spectral sliver was in my deck, but the ability just cost too much, same with clot sliver. I'd have to add the heartstones (or training grounds) in order to save my mana to for casting whatever else. I thought about spined sliver too, but again with the shifting sliver it becomes useless. And ward sliver is good, but a little pricey cmc-wise. It wouldn't really help me much vs the decks that I would need them for (creature destruction, burn and counter). Also just as a side note, opaline sliver is not like crystalline sliver because it does not stop the opponent from targeting my creatures, it just allows me to draw a card if they do. I was also considering moving sliver overlord to my main deck, but only having one, and not having any homing slivers would somewhat defeat the purpose since I would rarely get it out. I need more eladamri's calls but they're expensive ($-wise) and would take away from my slivers. I would like to add more magma, brood and shifting slivers to the deck. I am still considering that. I just like the way this plays with all the different abilities. Heart sliver I was on the fence about. I guess I could swap them for the root slivers and sideboard those instead. I actually like mistform sliver. It's ability is cheap, it allows me to gain immense boosts from coat of arms (or sliver legion), and it helps against opponent's decks if they have another tribal deck that gives walk abilities (elves, goblins, zombies, etc.). As far as mana echoes go, this would really defeat the purpose of training grounds, as I could basically just make infinite slivers and not worry about the ability cost (I would take a shit load of mana burn unless I used mistform sliver to make them all different creatures types). But I like mana echoes, I was considering its use in some of my other decks.

Now to seriously answer your question about why I don't use cards from the new sets, since you always seem to ream on me because of it, here is my reasoning. As you saw in my other deck's post, I stopped playing magic around the time the mirrodin was about to come out. At the time I was starting my 4th year in high school and really wanted to focus on my grades. I was also really busy with extra-curricular activities in prep for university acceptances, as well as with a girlfriend and playing competitive soccer, so I really didn't have the spare time like I used to. Also to be truly honest, I despised the look of the new cards, and didn't really want to get any (hence my stupid reason). Before that point, I was buying packs like it was my job. Most of my spare cash that I wasn't using for other stuff was going to cards, so I was always up to date with all the good stuff. Once I stopped playing however, I obviously didn't keep up with any of the new abilities, the new sets, the new wording or the new card types, and I wasn't buying packs. I only started getting back into magic this year, because a couple of my buddies started to get back into it as well. Having missed about 10 years worth of developments, and all the new cards that came with it, I decided to just stick with what I had. I didn't want to spend stupid amounts of money on awesome cards that I could no longer find in packs. It's not that I don't have the money (I make quite a bit now as a financial analyst), it's just that I'm trying to save money for other things like a house, and starting my own business. The combination of all these things make up the reason for me not wanting to get the new cards. Plus as I said, I don't play competitively (if I did, I would have to buy the new stuff). Don't get me wrong, the new cards and developments that came out are incredible, if not OP, but I just don't want to start now after 10 years of missing out on the action, only to get caught up in it all over again and spend the money I'm trying to save for bigger things. Hopefully now you understand and can accept my reasoning.

I understand, I'm still going to list things so that when you are able to spend the money on them, you'll have an easy place to look for suggested changes. I'd suggest not buying booster packs and instead buying individual cards. I also would add Mana Echoes, it is in your time frame and would help provide more mana for this deck.