4
Quick Sliver
4 Muscle Sliver
4 Winged Sliver
4 Shifting Sliver
4 Horned Sliver
2 Mystic Snake
2 Mistform Ultimus
2 Brood Sliver
2 Synapse Sliver
3 Steely Resolve
2 Evacuation
2 Urza's Incubator
4
Tranquil Thicket
4 Lonely Sandbar
8 Island
8 Forest
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  Sneaky
Mercury.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
 In
an Aluren (Sliver) deck, the enchantment comes down at sorcery speed.
You will likely wait until the end of your last opponent's turn before
playing out additional Slivers. Of course, in return for your patience,
you can play them without paying for their cost. Crystalline Sliver is
the natural leader of an Aluren-based sliver deck.
In a Quick Sliver deck, the creature comes down at instant speed. You
will likely throw this sucker down in mid-combat, and play out
additional slivers just before or after damage goes on the stack. Of
course, in return for your impatience, you have to pay for each one.
Muscle Sliver and Horned Sliver are the natural leaders of a Quick
Sliver-based deck. (Or at least they are until the Legions prerelease.)
That doesn't mean you won't ever play Quick Sliver and Crystalline
Sliver in the same deck – they get along almost as well as Mercury and
Venus did. But you'll have to run three colors (because if you play
Aluren to get the Crystalline, why are you bothering with the Quick?),
and that sends you in a perfectly fine – but new – direction.
Let's see what happens when we stick to green and blue, and build a deck
that's geared toward Quick Sliver's strengths – speed and surprise
combat effects. We'll allow for some protection, replacing Crystalline
Sliver with Steely Resolve.
What's not to like? You swing, you slip by the defenses, you replenish
your hand, you recruit more to your cause, you swing again. Even the
most traditional control-through-sorcery multiplayer deck will have
trouble facing a concentrated effort from this monstrosity. In an
emergency, Evacuation gets your Sliver cards back in your hand – where
you can recast them at instant speed during the next battle.
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