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Hooded Brawler

Card Name

Hooded Brawler

Mana Cost

2

Type

Creature – Snake Warrior

Rarity

Common

rules Text

You may exert Hooded Brawler as it attacks. When you do, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

Flavor Text

Nagas wielding twin daggers excel at the fighting technique known as the Bite of Rhonas.

Legal Formats

Commander, Explorer, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Standard

Rulings

(4/18/2017)
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.
(4/18/2017)
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.
(4/18/2017)
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.
(4/18/2017)
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.