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.
Gust Walker
All cards in the Amonkhet set that let you exert a creature let you do so as you declare it as an attacking creature, as do some of the cards in the Hour of Devastation set. You can’t do so later in combat, and creatures put onto the battlefield attacking can’t be exerted. Any abilities that trigger on exerting an attacking creature will resolve before blockers are declared.
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.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PLST — the lineup includes 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 #AKH-17 of *The List*, the set that shipped alongside the November 2019 The List release.
Card type: Creature — Human Wizard, color identity white, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {1}{W} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: Exert.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #27,650 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Jason Rainville. Rarix catalogs 505 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Jason Rainville
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