Courtly provocateur

[Curious penguin]

How does Courtly provocateur work? I'm new to this game and have the mechanics of the game down, however this one confuses me, or I could be over thinking it.

[D3g3n]

{Courtly provocateur}

Well you can use this to force a particular opponent's creature to be involved in combat. Ideally they want to protect or save that creature for something but since it must be in combat, there is a chance it will leave the battlefield and thus affecting their gameplan.

However, the timing of this card is important; you only benefit from its ability if its activated before the declaration of attacker (if you want a particular creature to attack), or right before the declaration of blocker (if you want one particular creature to block).

It does not bypass any restriction on combat, so the creature can only attack/block if it normally is able (you cannot make walls/ creatures with defender attack, you cannot force a single creature to block a creature that must be blocked by atleast two creatures, you cannot make a creature block if it cannot block because of {Pacifism}, etc).

Extra info that may or may not be relevant: You can only pick one of the two unless you can untap Courty Provocateur prior to the latest moment to use the ability to its full effect.
Since it says target in both ability, you cannot use the ability on creatures with Hexproof and Shroud or Protection from Blue/Creature/etc specific to Courtly Provocateur.
You cannot disrupt Exhalted with the ability as attackers must all be declared at once, unless you are able to force multiple creatures to attack before the declaration of attackers.
I'm not sure what else to clarify regarding the use of that card.

[Curious penguin]

{Courtly provocateur}

Well you can use this to force a particular opponent's creature to be involved in combat. Ideally they want to protect or save that creature for something but since it must be in combat, there is a chance it will leave the battlefield and thus affecting their gameplan.

However, the timing of this card is important; you only benefit from its ability if its activated before the declaration of attacker (if you want a particular creature to attack), or right before the declaration of blocker (if you want one particular creature to block).

It does not bypass any restriction on combat, so the creature can only attack/block if it normally is able (you cannot make walls/ creatures with defender attack, you cannot force a single creature to block a creature that must be blocked by atleast two creatures, you cannot make a creature block if it cannot block because of {Pacifism}, etc).

Extra info that may or may not be relevant: You can only pick one of the two unless you can untap Courty Provocateur prior to the latest moment to use the ability to its full effect.
Since it says target in both ability, you cannot use the ability on creatures with Hexproof and Shroud or Protection from Blue/Creature/etc specific to Courtly Provocateur.
You cannot disrupt Exhalted with the ability as attackers must all be declared at once, unless you are able to force multiple creatures to attack before the declaration of attackers.
I'm not sure what else to clarify regarding the use of that card.

Wow thank you so much

[Curious penguin]

Since the card is tapped after I used the ability does she have to attack?

[AgrusKos]

Sounds like the curious penguin is very curious

[Ghebert]

Since the card is tapped after I used the ability does she have to attack?

No. Tapping a card for its ability means it cannot attack.

[Jbombard51]

If your creature has vigilance, you may declare it as an attacker during the attack phase, then you may use the ability that taps your creature, when you have priority.

[Curious penguin]

Ok thank you very much!