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Hatchery Sliver Got a favorite sliver

Decks running Yawgmoth, Thran Physician can also help proliferate poison and -1/-1 counters

The reward of damage, lifegain, and card advantage makes this a surprisingly impactful black creature

Plus, it's incredibly boring to play against (the combo occasionally involved playing through your entire deck before eventually looping a Pyrite Spellbomb to win the game) and even more boring to watch

It doesn't destroy anything, so it's kinda sorta less effective than Demolition Field, but is also more inherently card advantageous than Volatile Fault

It is just another drain on resources, all be it a big one that can hit everything else the other two abilities can't