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Gauntlets of Light

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Enchanted creature has "{2}{W}: Untap this creature."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Core Set 2020
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#12009
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Gauntlets of Light card art
Gauntlets of Light turns a creature into a mana engine and an untap source simultaneously — the payoff is real, but it costs two mana to cast and another two to equip, which means it doesn't come online until turn four at the earliest. In enchantress shells built around Sythis, Harvest's Hand, that tempo cost is offset by the draw trigger on cast, and pairing it with Sanctum Weaver can generate enough mana to recoup the investment within a single turn cycle.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Sythis, Harvest's Hand

Sythis, Harvest's Hand

13.8% of decks · synergy 0.13

Sythis, Harvest's Hand turns every enchantment cast into a draw-and-lifegain trigger, so Gauntlets of Light pays for itself the moment it hits the stack — and once it's equipped on Sanctum Weaver or any other high-devotion creature, the mana generation compounds fast enough to chain into more enchantments the same turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Gauntlets of Light is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its competitive homes are essentially zero outside Commander. In Modern and Legacy the two-card setup — cast, equip, activate — is too slow against faster threats and more efficient mana engines. Commander is where it belongs: the 100-card singleton format rewards niche enchantment synergies, and the longer game gives Gauntlets of Light time to generate meaningful returns in dedicated enchantress or Voltron builds.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Gauntlets of Light is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box or adding it to a cart filler order. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile enchantress commander drives a sudden spike in the archetype's popularity.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.