Fervent Paincaster

two generic mana one red mana Creature — Human WizardPower and toughness3/1

tap this permanent : This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

tap this permanent , Exert this creature: It deals 1 damage to target creature. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

"Everyone here is a honed fighter. We'll respond the only way we know how."

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Fervent Paincaster rulings

2017-07-14
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.
2017-04-18
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
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
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.

Fervent Paincaster keyword rules

Exert Rule 701.39

To exert a permanent, you choose to have it not untap during your next untap step.

A permanent can be exerted even if it’s not tapped or has already been exerted in a turn. If you exert a permanent more than once before your next untap step, each effect causing it not to untap expires during the same untap step.

An object that isn’t on the battlefield can’t be exerted.

“You may exert [this creature] as it attacks” is an optional cost to attack (see rule ). Some objects with this static ability have a triggered ability that triggers “when you do” printed in the same paragraph. These abilities are linked. (See rule .)