You tap three to make a Blood Hypnotist
Bruvac the Grandiloquent Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign Arcum Dagsson Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor Talrand, Sky Summoner Baral, Chief of Compliance Azami, Lady of Scrolls Eluge, the Shoreless Sea Urza, Lord High Artificer These are the Mono-Blue Commanders that give you a reason to sleeve up a pile of Islands beyond the simple joy of saying "no" to your friends over and over again
You can trigger Valiant with its ability and distribute counters as you like between your creatures to make removal less effective against you
Its possible Hive Stirrings isnt worth it and should be some kind of actual Sliver creature so you can get colored mana to cast it from Sliver Hive, but being able to make multiple Slivers with a single card seems pretty powerful when you have so many ways to pump them
This is similar to the principle of card draw or burn, you just want the most efficient card because that plan is always a good one