100 years later, an organization of wizards named the Riptide Project set out to revive numerous species that were extinct on Dominaria, including the slivers. When Rath was overlayed across Dominaria, the sliver hive was placed in the Urborg Volcano, ending their race. Unfortunately for the slivers, their kindness was not rewarded. In the future, there was an artifact found called a hivestone that the Evincars used to control them. After this revelation, the Sliver Queen let Karn take the artifacts and leave. The queen asked Karn why she should let him retrieve the artifacts and live and Karn replies that the weapons are apart of him like the slivers are to her. Once he reached the center of the hive, he was introduced to the Sliver Queen. Later on, Volrath hid very powerful artifacts inside the sliver hive, needing the automaton Karn to retrieve it. Fortunately for them, they were prepared for this encounter and managed to release Volrath's control over the slivers. Creating a sound wave that mimics the noise of the Sliver Queen, Volrath unleashed the slivers upon the Weatherlight crew. The Evincar of Rath, Volrath, saw the potential in the slivers and used them to his advantage. Once the Phyrexians came to this world, they captured many of them and took them to Rath. They originally came from an unknown plane in which they were they dominant predators. The slivers of Rath weren't natives of the plane. They uses these appendages to slaughter their prey and drain them of their energy. Shandalarian slivers are more humanoid in appearance with arms, legs, hair-like fibers, and tentacles instead of claws. Their is speculation that slivers that share this appearance also can be found on Alara and New Phyrexia, but there is no concrete evidence to support this. In terms of appearance, Rathian and Dominarian slivers (for the most part) look like a snake with a beak, spikes on their heads, and a claw on one of their sides. A group of slivers is nearly impossible to defeat due to the fact that slivers transfer their abilities between each other, making them even more deadly. A single sliver can be a nuisance to deal with because each sliver has an ability that makes itself stronger.

These creatures live in hives made by the strongest of their species.

Slivers are a race of dangerous alien-like creatures from Magic: the Gathering. ~ A Riptide Project researcher about the Silvers species.

Sliver overlord