Vizier of the True

Exert is built around a single transaction: spend a permanent's next untap step to squeeze extra value out of an attack. This creature turns that personal tax into an attack on the opponent's board. Every time you exert any creature, not just this one, a creature your opponent controls taps down, which means the engine scales with how many exert bodies you've assembled rather than leaning on its 3/2 frame. The effect reads closer to a repeatable Falter than a combat trick: tap the blocker that would eat your alpha strike, then send the rest in unopposed. The clever part is the self-fueling loop, because exerting this creature as it attacks satisfies its own trigger, taps an opposing blocker, and pushes the swing through in one motion (the exhaustion of skipping an untap step being the standard exert bill). It rewards a board where multiple attackers exert in the same combat, each one stripping another defender, so the opponent's blocks erode faster than the raw chip damage suggests. Alone, the card is a modest beater whose triggered ability only fires when it exerts itself, taxing its own future turns for a single tap. The math changes with company: surrounded by other exert creatures, it becomes the lever that converts a wide attack into an unanswerable one, because the tapping is no longer conditional on this creature paying the bill by itself.