It used to be that this card could snatch opposing commanders when they were sacrificed, though the rules have changed to circumvent that
Interestingly, this card is from set 8, which is a full two sets ahead of the last released set Azurite Sea
Lion Heart Rating: 4/10 Two mana to equip for +2/+1 is a fairly good deal, and the high casting cost is mitigated by the fact that its capable of killing a creature on entering
Ive gone through our choices grouped by mana cost, with notes about what each one provides: One Mana Galerider Sliver (flying), Striking Sliver (first strike), Metallic Sliver (vanilla colorless), Mindlash Sliver (sac, everyone discards), Plated Sliver (+0/+1), Screeching Sliver (tap, mill 1), Sidewinder Sliver (flanking), Virulent Sliver (poisonous 1) Two Mana Sentinel Sliver (vigilance), Manaweft Sliver (tap for mana), Predatory Sliver (+1/+1), Acidic Sliver (sac, Shock), Cautery Sliver (sac, 1 damage dealt or prevented), Clot Sliver (regenerate for mana), Crypt Sliver (tap to regenerate), Crystalline Sliver (shroud), Darkheart Sliver (sac, gain 3 life), Frenzy Sliver (frenzy 1), Gemhide Sliver (tap for mana), Ghostflame Sliver (all slivers become colorless), Heart Sliver (haste), Hibernation Sliver (pay 2 life, return to hand), Hunter Sliver (provoke), Mistform Sliver (1: gain another creature type), Muscle Sliver (+1/+1), Quick Sliver (flash), Quilled Sliver (tap, ping combatants), Sinew Sliver (+1/+1), Spined Sliver (+1/+1 for each blocker), Spinneret Sliver (reach), Talon Sliver (first strike), Two-Headed Sliver (Goblin War Drums), Victual Sliver (2, sac: gain 4 life), Winged Sliver (flying) Three Mana Steelform Sliver (+0/+1), Syphon Sliver (lifelink), Blur Sliver (haste), Sliver Construct (vanilla colorless), Armor Sliver (2: +0/+1), Barbed Sliver (2: +1/+0), Basal Sliver (sac, add BB), Blade Sliver (+1/+0), Firewake Sliver (1, sac, give Sliver +2/+2), Frenetic Sliver (Frenetic Efreet), Harmonic Sliver (Naturalize), Homing Sliver (slivercycling), Horned Sliver (trample), Mindwhip Sliver (2, sac: player discards at random), Mnemonic Sliver (2, sac: draw a card), Necrotic Sliver (3, sac: destroy permanent), Opaline Sliver (if targeted by a spell, draw a card), Poultice Sliver (2, tap: regenerate), Sedge Sliver (Sedge Troll), Shadow Sliver (shadow), Spectral Sliver (2: +1/+1) Four Mana Bonescythe Sliver (double strike), Bonesplitter Sliver (+2/+0), Dormant Sliver (defender, Glimpse of Nature), Essence Sliver (lifelink), Fungus Sliver (Fungusaur), Magma Sliver (tap, +X/+0, X=#of Slivers), Mesmeric Sliver (fateseal 1), Plague Sliver (Juzm Djinn drawback), Reflex Sliver (haste), Root Sliver (cant be countered), Shifting Sliver (cant be blocked by non-Slivers), Telekinetic Sliver (Opposition), Toxin Sliver (deathtouch), Vampiric Sliver (Sengir Vampire), Watcher Sliver (+0/+2) Five Mana Battle Sliver (+2/+0), Thorncaster Sliver (Hellrider), Brood Sliver (combat damage to a player, make a Sliver token), Dementia Sliver (tap, name a card, look at opponents hand and discard it), Lymph Sliver (absorb 1), Might Sliver (+2/+2), Psionic Sliver (Psionic Entity), Pulmonic Sliver (if dies, may put it ontop of owners library), Spitting Sliver (first strike), Synapse Sliver (combat damage to player, draw a card), Synchronous Sliver (vigilance), Vensers Sliver (vanilla colorless), Ward Sliver (protection from color of choice) Six Mana Megantic Sliver (+3/+3), Battering Sliver (trample), Fury Sliver (doublestrike) Seven Mana Groundshaker Sliver (trample) Wow, thats a lot of slivers
Henry Wu gives himself and all other Humans you control exploit, letting you sacrifice a creature when they enter the battlefield
