Exalted

Exalted is a triggered ability first introduced in Shards of Alara and also featured in Conflux and Alara Reborn. Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted on the battlefield under your control.
==History==
The mechanic was created by Brian Tinsman.
Exalted was introduced in Shards of Alara as the mechanic for the White-dominated shard of Bant. When revisited, Magic 2013 added it on black creatures, and Modern Horizons finished going around the color pie with a single red Exalted creature. While Un-sets having random one-off keywords is not unusual, Unfinity had Exalted on the sticker sheet, giving it a greater presence. 
Later, Design experimented with an "advanced exalted" for Amonkhet, where a creature with the ability granted things other than +1/+1, mostly creature keywords. Then they tried a variant of this mechanic, where a creature with the ability granted a creature keyword to a target attacking creature. It no longer required the creature to be attacking alone, but the creature granted the ability had to be attacking as well (and yes, it could choose itself). Finally, it was replaced by exert.
It returned in Magic 2013, Modern Horizons, Modern Horizons 2 and was one of the non-evergreen, non-deciduous keywords included in the Unfinity sticker sheets. It also made small reappearances in the D&D: Honor Among Thieves Secret Lair, The Lord of the Rings Commander, and Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. In Modern Horizons 3, exalted counters were introduced on <c>Emissary of Soulfire</c>.
== Rules==
==Rulings== 
*If you declare exactly one creature as an attacker, each exalted ability on each permanent you control (including, perhaps, the attacking creature itself) will trigger. The bonuses are given to the attacking creature, not to the permanent with exalted. Ultimately, the attacking creature will wind up with +1/+1 for each of your exalted abilities.
*Some cards with exalted abilities have other abilities that also trigger when a creature you control attacks alone. Each time a creature you control attacks alone, both the exalted ability and the other ability will trigger.
* If you attack with multiple creatures, but then all but one are removed from combat, your exalted abilities won't trigger.
*Some effects put creatures onto the battlefield attacking. Since those creatures were never declared as attackers, they're ignored by exalted abilities. They won't cause exalted abilities to trigger. If any exalted abilities have already triggered (because exactly one creature was declared as an attacker), those abilities will resolve as normal even though there may now be multiple attackers.
*Exalted abilities will resolve before blockers are declared.
*Exalted bonuses last until end of turn. If an effect creates an additional combat phase during your turn, a creature that attacked alone during the first combat phase will still have its exalted bonuses in that new phase. If a creature attacks alone during the second combat phase, all your exalted abilities will trigger again.
*In a Two-Headed Giant game, a creature "attacks alone" if it's the only creature declared as an attacker by your entire team. If you control that attacking creature, your exalted abilities will trigger but your teammate's exalted abilities won't.
==Examples==
==Cards that grant Exalted==
Creature
*<c>First Sliver's Chosen</c> to Slivers
*<c>Sublime Archangel</c> 
*<c>Xenk, Paladin Unbroken</c> to Auras
*<c>Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield</c> to creatures with Defender
* <c>Order of Sacred Dusk</c> to Vampires
*<c>Merchant of Truth</c> to Clues
*<c>Emissary of Soulfire</c> via exalted counters
Sticker
* <c>Urza's Dark Cannonball</c>
==Plane card that grants Exalted==
*<c>Bant</c> (all creatures)
== Trivia== 
*Exalted was featured as rules card 1 of 5 in the Shards of Alara set.
*<c>Exalted Angel</c> and <c>Exalted Dragon</c> don't have exalted.
*<c>Angelic Exaltation</c> acts functionally as though granting Exalted to all your creatures, but with fewer triggers. <c>Sigil of Valor</c> does also, for all but the equipped creature.
*<c>Altar of the Goyf</c> acts similarly, turning the attacking creature into a pseudo-Lhurgoyf (specifically, like a ). Using Exalted terminology, it effectively gains an instance of Exalted for each card type in the graveyard.
*Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty gave an Exalted-like theme for Warriors and Samurai without the keyword. Each card in the theme has a different payoff, of which has the exalted variant.
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