Card

Backslide

Mana cost {1}{U}

Instant

Turn target creature with a morph ability face down. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 1 official ruling.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Common · ONS · #70
Cheapest printing
€0.07
EDHREC salt
0.31
Color identity
Blue
Keywords
Cycling

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

1 known combo.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2008-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
    Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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