How is slivers different from other creature types? (btw, my brother used to play a sliver deck -- upon seeing The First Sliver, he mentioned he may need to put the deck back together. *sigh* )
Other than slivers being a decently supported creature type (although in bursts) - how is it different than something like Goblins?
The differences I see is that slivers are in all 5 colours, but then that means they need a more complex mana base to support it. We've recently seen a few new cards that hate on non-basics so (depending how allowed those cards are in your gaming group) that's not something insignificant to have to deal with.
But overall, I'm not worried about The First Sliver. Sure, it gives your slivers cascade, but then that means to take advantage of it, you need a bunch of slivers, which means you're more likely to cascade into other slivers -- which means a board wipe is more detrimental to them.
Also means that the recently released
Massacre Girl will likely have more fun when she comes to play.
