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We report the serendipituous discovery of the new eclipsing polar 2XMMpJ131223.4+173659. Its striking X-ray light curve attracted immediate interestwhen we were visually inspecting the source products of the 2XMMp catalogue.This light curve revealed its likely nature as a magnetic cataclysmic variableof AM Herculis (or polar) type with an orbital period of ~92 min, which wasconfirmed by follow-up optical spectroscopy and photometry. 2XMMpJ131223.4+173659 probably has a one-pole accretion geometry. It joins the groupof now nine objects that show no evidence of a soft component in their X-rayspectra despite being in a high accretion state, thus escaping ROSAT/EUVEdetection. We discuss the likely accretion scenario, the system parameters, andthe spectral energy distribution.

The serendipituous discovery of a short-period eclipsing polar in 2XMMp