All you need is a card like Heartstone or Zirda, the Dawnwaker to reduce the cost of Sliver Queens effect, then cards like Earthcraft or Gemhide Sliver + a haste enabler, and you have access to infinite 1/1s
there may still be a 1% chance to win, but the chance isnt usually worth the struggle
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And yeah, people are wrong about it
It requires a turn to go around to be truly effective, and less reliably leads to the win than Nyx Lotus if it gets that time
My kind of card when it comes to table politics, as the mana doubling is almost always met with more concern than a few points of life