Back Off
Back Off is an uncommon-rarity spell card from Riftbound's Unleashed expansion. It costs 3 Energy to cast as a one-shot effect. Aligned with the Calm domain. The card uses the Action, Hidden keywords. It sees significant competitive play, appearing in roughly 22% of tracked tournament decks.
3 Energy | Spell | Calm | uncommon | Unleashed
Rules Text
[Hidden] (Hide now for Any Rune to react with later for 0 Energy.) [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.
Keywords
Domain: Calm
Meta Statistics
Inclusion Rate: 22.2% | Win Rate: 49.2%
Related FAQ (1)
Does Blast Cone stun my empowered Gangplank, Naval? What if I then play Back Off choosing him?
Blast Cone stuns him — its stun trigger doesn't choose units, so Gangplank's replacement effect can't apply. Back Off on an already-stunned Gangplank doesn't perform the stun game action at all (the instruction is negated), so there's no event for his replacement effect to replace and he doesn't get +3 Might. Likewise, under a "friendly units can't be stunned" effect, a stun choosing Gangplank generates no event to replace.
Tournament Decks
- Azir — YBE piorro (9W-1L), NovaRiftbound's TCGArena Online $2K Showdown #3
- Master Yi — Team 2 (Nick Dineros/Tristan Panarelli/NBC NovaRiftbound) (7W-2L), Breach the Bay 2 Riftbound 15k Team Trios
- Ahri — Brayden (6W-3L), Pittsburgh 2026 - Riftbound Showdown $10k-$25,000
- Vex — Domenic Daloisio (6W-3L), Pittsburgh 2026 - Riftbound Showdown $10k-$25,000
- Nasus — Team 26 (Carlos/Zachary Frame/Shawn Chau) (5W-2L), Breach the Bay 2 Riftbound 15k Team Trios