Spell
Back Off
Energy
Rules
Hidden (Hide now for to react with later for .)
Action (Play on your turn or in showdowns.)
Stun a unit. (It doesn't deal combat damage this turn.)
If you played this from your hand, draw 1.
Flavor text
“Ew." - Vex”
Card information
- Set
- Unleashed UNL
- Card number
- UNL-042/219
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Type
- Spell
- Illustrator
- Caravan Studio
Names in other languages
Keywords explained
HiddenCR 811Prerequisite keyword (Hide)
It is functionally short for "While this card is in your hand or in your Champion Zone on your turn during an Open State, you may pay to hide this facedown at a battlefield you control that doesn't already have a facedown card hidden there for as long as you control that battlefield. Beginning on the next turn, this gains [Reaction] and you may play this, ignoring its base cost."
ActionCR 806Permissive
"This can be played during showdowns on any player's turn." 806.1.c.2 (abilities): "This can be activated during showdowns on any player's turn."
StunCR 423Game action
A stunned unit does not contribute its Might to damage in the combat damage step. Units lose Stunned during end of turn cleanup.
Functional text from the Core Rules
Legality
Simulator support
Fully scripted
Every printed ability works in the simulator.
Rulings & errata
›What happens when my empowered Gangplank, Naval is moved by my opponent’s Blast Cone’s play effect and they exhaust Blast Cone to stun Gangplank? Will he be stunned? What happens if I then play Back Off choosing my Gangplank? Will he get +3 [M] this turn?
Blast Cone will stun Gangplank. If you play Back Off choosing your stunned Gangplank, he will not receive +3 [M] this turn.
Blast Cone’s triggered ability that stuns units doesn’t choose them, so Gangplank’s replacement effect can’t apply to that event. Back Off played on a stunned Gangplank does not actually perform the stun game action, because Gangplank is already stunned. It’s legal to play Back Off, but the instruction will be negated. In order for Gangplank’s replacement effect to replace an event of him being stunned, the stun game action must actually be performed. Similarly, if an effect that said “Friendly units can’t be stunned” were active with a friendly empowered Gangplank, Naval is on the board, a stun effect that is played choosing Gangplank wouldn’t generate an event that Gangplank could replace, because no stun game action is performed.
Relevant Rules: 423.1.a.1.
Source: Riftbound: Vendetta Rules FAQ and Clarifications (newest FAQ found)