Vizier of the True 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
You may exert this creature as it attacks. (It won't untap during your next untap step.) Whenever you exert a creature, tap target creature an opponent controls.
Complete guide
Vizier of the True is a tactical Cleric from Amonkhet that allows you to control the battlefield by exhausting your own forces. By utilizing the exert mechanic, you can freeze your opponent's defenses and clear a path for victory. Understanding the timing of these triggers is key to mastering your combat phase.
What it Does
Vizier of the True has two distinct parts to its ability. First, it allows itself to be exerted as it attacks, which means it won't untap during your next untap step in exchange for a temporary benefit. Second, it has a triggered ability that fires whenever you exert any creature you control, letting you tap down a target creature an opponent controls.
How it Resolves
Exerting a creature happens at the moment you declare attackers; you cannot choose to exert a creature later in the combat phase or if it entered the battlefield already attacking. Once you choose to exert a creature, the Vizier's second ability triggers and is put onto the stack. This happens before your opponent chooses blockers, meaning the creature you target will be tapped and unable to block that turn.
Common Mistakes
A common point of confusion is what happens if the exerted creature is untapped by another effect. If a creature you exerted becomes untapped before your next untap step, the 'freeze' effect simply expires harmlessly. Additionally, remember that you can still exert a creature even if your opponent has no creatures to target; the ability will simply fail to find a target but the creature remains exerted.
When to Play It
Vizier of the True is most effective in aggressive decks that need to bypass large blockers. Because it triggers off any creature you exert, it gains massive value when paired with other creatures that have their own exert benefits, allowing you to tap down multiple enemy threats in a single combat phase.
Interaction examples
Solemn SimulacrumYou declare Vizier of the True as an attacker and choose to exert it. This triggers its ability. You target your opponent's Solemn Simulacrum. The ability resolves, tapping the Golem. Now, the Golem cannot be declared as a blocker, ensuring your Vizier (or other attackers) can strike the opponent directly.
Roaming ThroneWith Roaming Throne on the battlefield naming 'Human', you attack and exert Vizier of the True. Because Vizier is a Human, Roaming Throne causes its 'whenever you exert' ability to trigger twice. You may now target and tap two different creatures your opponent controls before they have the chance to block.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Vizier of the True
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If a creature has a targeted triggered ability that triggers when you exert it, you can exert it even if there isn’t a legal target for that triggered ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Some cards have abilities that trigger whenever you exert any creature. These abilities trigger when you exert that creature or any other creature you control.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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