{"ops":[{"attributes":{"background":"#eef0f2","color":"#333333","bold":true},"insert":"Rukarumel, Biologist: Sliver Modal"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"#eef0f2","color":"#333333","bold":true},"insert":"What this deck is"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":"A Sliver deck where the commander decides what \"Sliver\" means. You play a wide creature board, switch the named type to match the situation, and win through combat most of the time. There is a combo finish, but no card in the deck can find Intruder Alarm, so treat it as a bonus you sometimes draw into, not a plan."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"#eef0f2","color":"#333333","bold":true},"insert":"Rukarumel"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":"Three things matter, in this order: She doesn't grant Sliver. She grants whatever you name. Name Sliver and your nontoken creatures join the hive. Name anything else and they leave it, unless an anchor is out. The effect reaches your hand, library, graveyard and stack. That's what turns Sliver Overlord into a universal tutor and Rooftop Storm into a broken card. Her tokens are natively Slivers, so they get Gemhide, Bonescythe, Cloudshredder, Sliver Hivelord and Thrumming Hivepool with no anchor at all. This is the pivot of the combo. She is a Wizard. Remember it: that's both a game mode and a manabase constraint."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"#eef0f2","color":"#333333","bold":true},"insert":"Two layers"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2","bold":true},"insert":"Default layer"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":": Rukarumel names Sliver. Your non-Sliver creatures join the hive, every lord switches on, Sliver Overlord tutors any creature in the deck."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2","bold":true},"insert":"Anchor layer"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":": Hivestone, Arcane Adaptation, Maskwood Nexus. They make your creatures Slivers on their own, which frees Rukarumel to name something else. No anchor, no modal plan. Arcane Adaptation at 3 mana is the efficient one. Maskwood Nexus is the powerful one since it runs every mode in parallel. Mirror Entity is a temporary anchor at instant speed plus a finisher. Firdoch Core, Morophon and Unsettled Mariner are changelings, so they're Slivers permanently no matter what you name."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"#eef0f2","color":"#333333","bold":true},"insert":"Four modes"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2","bold":true},"insert":"Sliver"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":", the default. Switches on Gemhide, Manaweft, Bonescythe, Cloudshredder, Shifting, Quick, Sliver Hivelord, Sliver Legion, The First Sliver, Hatchery Sliver, Brood Sliver, Thrumming Hivepool and Sliver Overlord. You spend most games here."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2","bold":true},"insert":"Elemental"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":", the value mode. Risen Reef triggers on every creature that enters, tokens included, and puts a land onto the battlefield or a card into your hand. One creature a turn is already good. In the Intruder Alarm loop it draws your deck and lands everything."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2","bold":true},"insert":"Wizard"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":", the draw mode. Azami taps an untapped Wizard to draw a card. Two details make this better than it looks. The cost taps another creature, so summoning sickness doesn't apply and fresh tokens draw immediately. And Rukarumel is natively a Wizard, so Azami does something before you name it. Tradeoff: a creature only taps once, so it's Gemhide or Azami, not both."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2","bold":true},"insert":"Zombie"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":", the dump mode. Rooftop Storm makes Zombie creature spells free, and the cards in your hand are Zombies, so every creature costs {0}. Mana value doesn't change, so Hatchery Sliver's replicate still costs the printed cost and The First Sliver's cascades still hit the right range."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":"The three non default modes go on top of an anchor, never instead of one. One exception worth knowing: your mana still works without an anchor, because Gemhide is natively a Sliver and so are Rukarumel's tokens."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"#eef0f2","color":"#333333","bold":true},"insert":"Naming cheat sheet"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":"Everything with a locked choice names Sliver: Herald's Horn, Urza's Incubator, Gathering Stone, Vanquisher's Banner, Kindred Discovery, Morophon, Realmwalker, Reflections of Littjara, Titan of Littjara."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":"Your type lands split: Sliver on Unclaimed Territory, Wizard on Secluded Courtyard. Rukarumel isn't a Sliver, and you don't want to be locked out of casting your own commander. Sliver Hive has no such issue since it taps for colorless as well."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#333333","background":"#eef0f2"},"insert":"Path of Ancestry taps for any color in your identity and scrys on almost every spell, since your creatures always share a type with her."},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"}]}