Glaring Spotlight

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Glaring Spotlight: Artifact, Gatecrash. MTG card details, printings, market prices, official rulings, and format legality, all in one place on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}
Mana value
1
Type
Artifact
Colour identity
Colourless
Rarity
Rare
Set
Gatecrash (GTC)
Released
2013-02-01
Collector number
229
Artist
Adam Paquette
Commander rank
6,646 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Glaring Spotlight

Glaring Spotlight is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from Gatecrash (GTC), an expansion set released in February 2013. It is collector number 229 in that set, with art by Adam Paquette. It costs {1} (one generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. Gatecrash is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $2.58 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

{3}, Sacrifice this artifact: Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $2.58 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Glaring Spotlight by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Official rulings

Two official rulings apply to Glaring Spotlight, newest first.

  • Creatures that come under your control after Glaring Spotlight’s last ability resolves won’t have hexproof but they can’t be blocked that turn.
  • Creatures your opponents control don’t actually lose hexproof, although you will ignore hexproof for purposes of choosing targets of spells and abilities you control.

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