Hibernation Sliver
Stronghold 128 • uncommon
- Set
- Stronghold
- Collector number
- 128
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- blue mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black · Blue
- Artist
- Scott Kirschner
- Market price
- $1.47
What it does
All Slivers have "Pay 2 life: Return this permanent to its owner's hand."
Mogglings have been known to play ball with hibernating slivers, completely unaware of their true nature.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Hibernation Sliver was released in 1998 as part of the Stronghold set, the second expansion in the Rath Cycle of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. It represents the sliver creature type, a thematic hallmark of the period designed to function as a hive-mind collective where each member grants a global ability to all others. This specific card was crafted to provide the sliver archetype with a crucial defensive mechanism, allowing players to pay life to return their creatures to their hand in response to removal spells or board wipes.
The card features artwork by the illustrator Melissa Benson, whose contributions were instrumental in defining the visual language of the game's early years. Benson's interpretation of the sliver aesthetic focused on the creature's strange, skeletal, and parasitic physiology, helping to establish the unsettling yet functional nature of the species. Upon its introduction, the card became a staple for sliver-based decks, prized for the resilience it offered in competitive play and its unique contribution to the color identity of the Green-Blue sliver variants.
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