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Fervent Paincaster

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Fervent Paincaster, Hour of Devastation printing
Hour of Devastation HOU · No. 91 2017-07-14

Card text

{2}{R}
Creature — Human Wizard
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. {T}, Exert this creature: It deals 1 damage to target creature. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)
3 / 1
Keywords: Exert
"Everyone here is a honed fighter. We'll respond the only way we know how."
EDHREC rank #26018 Uncommon Not on the Reserved List
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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ∅ Not legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

4 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

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.

2017-04-18 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2017-04-18 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2017-04-18 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2017-07-14 · Wizards of the Coast

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