>Only playing or using a card cause it be exhausted

or cards that explicitely exhaust, such as

>Persistence Hunting  
Play: Choose a house. Exhaust each enemy creature of the chosen house.

No, exalting doesn't exhaust, you just add an aember from the supply to the exalted card. Makes that card more of a target.

Only playing or using a card cause it be exhausted.

&gt;Only playing or using a card cause it be exhausted

or cards that explicitely exhaust, such as

&gt;Persistence Hunting  
Play: Choose a house. Exhaust each enemy creature of the chosen house.

Does exalting exhaust the card that you exalt? For example, Phalanx Strike states “Play: Choose a creature.  Deal 1 damage to it for each friendly creature. You may exalt a friendly creature to repeat the preceding effect.” So if I want to repeat the effect and exalt a friendly creature, is that creature then exhausted? Or exalting separate altogether? 

Thanks in advance!

Question Regarding Exalting