Alpha Authority

Enchantment — Aura, 1G (2)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has hexproof and can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Even the bitterest enemies of the Burning-Tree Clan respect the strength of Borborygmos's rule.

Illus. Dave Kendall

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Angelic Overseer

Creature — Angel 5/3, 3WW (5)

Flying

As long as you control a Human, Angelic Overseer has hexproof and is indestructible.

From mortal hope immortal power springs.

Illus. Jason Chan

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 9/22/2011: If you control a Human, and an effect tries to destroy each Human you control and Angelic Overseer simultaneously, Angelic Overseer won't be destroyed.
• 9/22/2011: If you control a Human, and lethal damage is dealt to Angelic Overseer, that damage will remain marked on it that turn. If later in the turn you no longer control a Human, Angelic Overseer will be destroyed.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Glaring Spotlight

Artifact, 1 (1)

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 Glaring Spotlight: Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn and are unblockable this turn.

Illus. Adam Paquette

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 1/24/2013: 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.
• 1/24/2013: Creatures that come under your control after Glaring Spotlight’s last ability resolves won’t have hexproof but will be unblockable that turn.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Lumberknot

Creature — Treefolk 1/1, 2GG (4)

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Lumberknot.

Animated by geists fused in its oak, it hungers for more life to add to its core.

Illus. Jason A. Engle

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Mask of Avacyn

Artifact — Equipment, 2 (2)

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Equip {3}

It hides the face and protects the soul.

Illus. James Paick

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 9/22/2011: If Mask of Avacyn somehow becomes attached to a creature an opponent controls, that creature can't be the target of spells or abilities you control.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Mwonvuli Beast Tracker

Creature — Human Scout 2/1, 1GG (3)

When Mwonvuli Beast Tracker enters the battlefield, search your library for a creature card with deathtouch, hexproof, reach, or trample and reveal it. Shuffle your library and put that card on top of it.

"The more dangerous, the better."

Illus. Zoltan Boros

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 7/1/2012: The creature card must have one of the listed abilities, not an ability that grants one of the listed abilities to the creature. For example, you couldn't put Prized Elephant, which has "{G}: Prized Elephant gains trample until end of turn," on top of your library this way.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Oak Street Innkeeper

Creature — Elf 1/2, 2G (3)

As long as it's not your turn, tapped creatures you control have hexproof.

The city is vast and perilous, but there are places where a weary traveler can feel very much at home.

Illus. Svetlin Velinov

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Primal Huntbeast

Creature — Beast 3/3, 3G (4)

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"To the unskilled, it appears as blurred patches of distorted light. Few have seen its true form."
—Garruk Wildspeaker

Illus. Chris Rahn

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Ranger's Guile

Instant, G (1)

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

In the remote corners of Kessig, protection is found in secret powers unknown to the Church of Avacyn.

Illus. Steve Prescott

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Ring of Evos Isle

Artifact — Equipment, 2 (2)

{2}: Equipped creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's blue.

Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Illus. Erica Yang

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Rubbleback Rhino

Creature — Rhino 3/4, 4G (5)

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

The trouble started when a street urchin bet a goblin he could ride one until the clock on Shilbo's Tower struck thirteen.

Illus. Johann Bodin

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Sheltering Word

Instant, 1G (2)

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities opponents control.)

Illus. Igor Kieryluk

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 5/1/2012: If a creature gains hexproof in response to a spell or ability controlled by an opponent that targets only it, that spell or ability will countered for having an illegal target when it tries to resolve.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Sigarda, Host of Herons

Legendary Creature — Angel 5/5, 2WWG (5)

Flying, hexproof

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you to sacrifice permanents.

Great devotion yields great reward.

Illus. Chris Rahn

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 5/1/2012: As a spell or ability an opponent controls resolves, if it would force you to sacrifice a permanent, you just don't. That part of the effect does nothing. If that spell or ability gives you the option to sacrifice a permanent (as Brain Gorger's ability does), you can't take that option.
• 5/1/2012: If a spell or ability an opponent controls instructs you to perform an action unless you sacrifice a permanent (as Ogre Marauder does), you can't choose to sacrifice a permanent. You must perform the action. On the other hand, if a spell or ability an opponent controls instructs you to sacrifice a permanent unless you perform an action (as Killing Wave does), you can choose whether or not to perform the action. If you don't perform the action, nothing happens, since you can't sacrifice any permanents.
• 5/1/2012: You may still sacrifice permanents to pay the costs of spells you cast and abilities you activate, or because a resolving spell or ability you control instructs or allows you to do so.
• 5/1/2012: You may sacrifice a permanent to pay the activation cost of an ability, even if that ability comes from a permanent an opponent controls (such as Excavation).
• 5/1/2012: You may sacrifice a permanent as a special action, even if the effect that allows you to do so comes from an opponent's permanent (such as Damping Engine or Volrath's Curse). No one controls special actions.
• 5/1/2012: This ability affects only sacrifices. It won't stop a creature from being put into the graveyard due to lethal damage or having 0 toughness, and it won't stop a permanent from being put into the graveyard due to the "legend rule" or the "planeswalker uniqueness rule." None of these are sacrifices; they're the result of game rules.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Simic Keyrune

Artifact, 3 (3)

{T}: Add {G} or {U} to your mana pool.

{G}{U}: Simic Keyrune becomes a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Illus. Daniel Ljunggren

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 4/15/2013: Until the ability that turns the Keyrune into a creature resolves, the Keyrune is colorless.
• 4/15/2013: Activating the ability that turns the Keyrune into a creature while it’s already a creature will override any effects that set its power and/or toughness to another number, but effects that modify power and/or toughness without directly setting them will still apply.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Witchbane Orb

Artifact, 4 (4)

When Witchbane Orb enters the battlefield, destroy all Curses attached to you.

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control, including Aura spells.)

Illus. John Avon

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern