USD
$0.21
USD foil
$1.18
EUR
€0.12
MTGO
0.06 tix
Backslide
Instant
Turn target creature with a morph ability face down.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Some things are better left unknown.
Cycling
- Set
- Onslaught (ONS #70)
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- 2002-10-07
- Artist
- Pete Venters
- EDHREC rank
- #22,792
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
1
+
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Salt Score
0.31
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Combos 1
Ixidor, Reality Sculptor+Brine Elemental+Isochron Scepter+Backslide
LockOpponents skip their untap steps
21 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Format legality
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Modern
Not legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Not legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Not legal
Timeless
Not legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Penny
Legal
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper EDH
Legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Gladiator
Not legal
Rulings
- 2008-10-01
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.