Slip Out the Back
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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.)
Rulings
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2022-04-29
An attacking or blocking creature that phases out is removed from combat.
- 2022-04-29
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.
- 2022-04-29
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.
- 2022-04-29
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.
- 2022-04-29
Choices made for permanents as they entered the battlefield are remembered when they phase in.
- 2022-04-29
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.
- 2022-04-29
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Slip Out the Back, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namor the Sub-Mariner | 1 | 7 | 42.9% |
| Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief | 1 | 1 | — |
| Helga, Skittish Seer | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Blue 1 deck
- Simic 1 deck
- Bant 1 deck
Every version of Slip Out the Back
4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
The List
- Normal
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Borderless
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $11.43
- Normal
- $5.11
- Normal
- $3.74
- Foil
- $5.43
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Slip Out the Back — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.