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Fervent Paincaster

{2}{R}

Creature — Human Wizard

HOUHour of Devastation#91uncommon
Foil

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

Border
black
Frame
2015
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 1105
Illustrator
Matt Stewart
Found in
Hour of Devastation MTGO Redemption Foil · Hour of Devastation MTGO Redemption · 2 more
Printings2
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
{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

Plays as: Pinger · Planeswalker Removal

Market · per finishspark updated 1h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+0.0%
$0.06
$0.01 low$0.00 gap
Foil+0.0%
$0.30
$0.15 low$0.07 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.06· across 2 printings

Rulings

4 · latest Jul 14, 2017 · one tap opens all
  • WotCJul 14, 2017

    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.

  • WotCApr 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.

  • WotCApr 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.

  • WotCApr 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.