Magic Is Reviving Its Most Controversial Creature Type

Love them or loathe them, Sliver decks are set to gain new cards in Magic: The Gathering. Vice President of Design Aaron Forsythe confirmed their return in an interview with Polygon at MagicCon: Atlanta 2026, though he stopped short of saying when they would arrive.

More Slivers are on the way to Magic: The Gathering

Polygon asked Forsythe about the Sliver-related cards in Edge of Eternities and whether the design team planned to bring the creature type back in a bigger way, or considered it too difficult to support. Forsythe said the team already knows when Slivers will return, but declined to reveal the timing.

“They will be back,” Forsythe said. “We know when they’re coming back, and I’m not going to tell you. But we know people love them. They are hard to develop. They are hard to make work unlimited, but we have a plan.”

Slivers are among the game’s most distinctive and divisive creature types. Their abilities enhance or interact with other Slivers, allowing a deck to grow increasingly powerful as more of the creatures enter play. That synergy can make an established Sliver army difficult to stop.

Those same interactions also present a design challenge: New Slivers must be balanced against a long history of existing cards. Forsythe’s comments suggest Wizards of the Coast has a plan for their return, although the scale and form of that comeback remain unclear.

In the meantime, Wizards of the Coast debuted Nauctis: The Sunken Realm at MagicCon: Atlanta 2026. Scheduled for release on February 5, 2027, the set will introduce an oceanic realm to the game’s multiverse.

Additional reporting by Corey Plante and Jake Kleinman.

Source: Polygon