Some cards in the Hour of Devastation set let you exert a creature as a cost to activate one of its abilities. You can exert it to pay that cost even if you’ve already exerted it earlier in the turn. Exerting it multiple times will keep it tapped only during your next untap step.
If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step.
You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from HOU — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #25 of *Hour of Devastation*, the set that shipped alongside the July 2017 Hour of Devastation release.
Card type: Creature — Human Warrior, color identity white, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{W} (2 converted).
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #23,893 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Sara Winters. Rarix catalogs 179 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Sara Winters
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If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything.
