Slip Out the Back
- Mana cost
- {U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- The List #CLU-99 (uncommon)
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
Slip Out the Back has 4 printings, first in Streets of New Capenna (2022). EDHREC ranks it #1,086 among Commander cards. It appears most in Vivi Ornitier decks (8,049 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Slip Out the Back most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Vivi Ornitier: 8,049 decks
- Kotis, the Fangkeeper: 7,591 decks
- Animar, Soul of Elements: 4,079 decks
- Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief: 3,898 decks
- Obeka, Splitter of Seconds: 3,761 decks
- Orvar, the All-Form: 2,287 decks
- The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell: 1,939 decks
- Eshki, Temur's Roar: 1,868 decks
Often played with Slip Out the Back
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : An attacking or blocking creature that phases out is removed from combat.
- : Phased-out permanents are treated as though they don't exist. They can't be the target of spells or abilities, their static abilities have no effect on the game, their triggered abilities can't trigger, they can't attack or block, and so on.
- : Permanents phase back in during their controller's untap step, immediately before that player untaps their permanents. Creatures that phase in this way are able to attack and pay a cost of {T} during that turn. If a permanent had counters on it when it phased out, it will have those counters when it phases back in.
- : Phasing out doesn't cause any “leaves the battlefield” abilities to trigger. Similarly, phasing in won't cause any “enters the battlefield” abilities to trigger.
- : Choices made for permanents as they entered the battlefield are remembered when they phase in.
- : As a creature is phased out, Auras and Equipment attached to it also phase out at the same time. Those Auras and Equipment will phase in at the same time that creature does, and they'll phase in still attached to that creature.
- : Any continuous effects with a “for as long as” duration, such as that of Extraction Specialist, ignore phased-out objects. If ignoring those objects causes the effect's conditions to no longer be met, the duration will expire.