Holy Light
Instant
Nonwhite creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Dark
- Price
- $1.73
- EDHREC rank
- #28546
Holy Light wipes every black and artifact creature off the board for two mana at instant speed — one of the most efficient sweepers ever printed for its specific targets. It's narrow, but when it hits, it hits everything at once for almost nothing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Holy Light is a role-player in white decks that expect heavy black creature or artifact creature presence — think Sheoldred tokens, Mishra artifact armies, or graveyard-heavy black pods. Legacy and Vintage see it as a fringe sideboard option, historically crowded out by more flexible interaction, but its two-mana cost keeps it technically viable. Pauper is where Holy Light has the most realistic home, since artifact creatures and black weenies are both format staples and a two-mana one-sided wrath at common is a real resource. It's legal in Oathbreaker as well, where the singleton pressure and targeted meta reads matter more.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.73 cheap tier
At $1.73, Holy Light sits in the casual-collector tier — not cheap enough to be a throwaway inclusion, not expensive enough to feel like a real acquisition. The price reflects its niche appeal: it's an old card with a narrow effect, and it's unlikely to move much unless a specific format or commander archetype pushes mono-black creature or artifact creature strategies into the spotlight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.