Hog-Monkey is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Exhaust —: Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
How it works : Hog-Monkey
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If an exhaust ability of a permanent is activated, and then that permanent leaves the battlefield and returns to the battlefield, it becomes a new object so its exhaust ability can be activated again.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Exhaust abilities can be activated any time you could normally activate an ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
The creature you target must have a +1/+1 counter on it when the ability goes on the stack at the beginning of combat. You cannot put the counter on it in response.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If an ability triggers whenever you activate an exhaust ability, that ability resolves before the exhaust ability resolves.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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