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Emberhorn Minotaur

Card Name

Emberhorn Minotaur

Mana Cost

3

Type

Creature – Minotaur Warrior

Rarity

Common

rules Text

You may exert Emberhorn Minotaur as it attacks. When you do, it gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step. A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Flavor Text

"My stride will break only against the twin points of Hazoret's spear."

Legal Formats

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

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, 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.