Run Behind

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Name	Run Behind
Type	Instant
Description	This spell costs less to cast if it targets an attacking creature. Target creature's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
Flavor	The skycoach waits for no one.
Artist	Nereida
Set	Secrets of Strixhaven #66
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Run Behind

Run Behind, Instant, designed by Nereida first released in Apr, 2026 in the set Secrets of Strixhaven.

**Run Behind** is a tempo-oriented blue card that fits best in a tempo or control deck that wants to disrupt combat while maintaining mana efficiency, particularly in formats where attacking creatures are central to the metagame. Its cost reduction against attacking creatures makes it strongest in reactive, draw‑go style decks that can hold up mana and punish aggression, functioning as a pseudo-removal spell that denies both board presence and draw steps if placed on top. However, it competes with significantly stronger and more flexible options such as **Into the Roil**, **Fading Hope**, **Brazen Borrower**, **Resculpt**, or especially **Aetherize** in anti-aggro shells; even **Memory Lapse**-style effects or hard removal like **Ravenform** often provide better tempo or permanent answers. Because it doesn’t permanently answer the threat and costs four mana at base rate, it is likely too inefficient for competitive Constructed play unless the format is slow and highly combat-focused, t