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* A permanent that costs {{R}}{{R}}{{R}} adds three to your devotion to red. | * A permanent that costs {{R}}{{R}}{{R}} adds three to your devotion to red. | ||
* A permanent that costs {{1}}{{G}}{{W}} adds one to your devotion to green and one to your devotion to white. | * A permanent that costs {{1}}{{G}}{{W}} adds one to your devotion to green and one to your devotion to white. | ||
* A permanent that costs {{rg}}{{rg}} adds two to your devotion to red, two to your devotion to green, | * A permanent that costs {{rg}}{{rg}} adds two to your devotion to red, two to your devotion to green, or two to your devotion to red and green.[http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg%2Fdaily%2Ffeature%2Fjourneyintonyxmechanics#anchor7] | ||
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*<c>Gray Merchant of Asphodel</c> - {{3}}{{B}}{{B}}<br>Creature {{-}} Zombie<br>2/4<br> When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {{B}} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts towards your devotion to black.)<br>'' | *<c>Gray Merchant of Asphodel</c> - {{3}}{{B}}{{B}}<br>Creature {{-}} Zombie<br>2/4<br> When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {{B}} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts towards your devotion to black.)<br>'' | ||
Revision as of 00:41, 16 April 2015
Devotion is a mechanic introduced in Theros, where it was connected to the god theme of the set. [1] It appears as Devotion to [color] or Devotion to [color 1] and [color 2], where color is either white, blue, black, red or green. Devotion to a color is defined as a numerical value that a player has, equal to the number of mana symbols of the color(s) in the mana costs of permanents he or she controls. There are cards that count devotion to each of the five colors, and they have many different effects based on that devotion. [2] Devotion also featured in the rest of the Theros block.
Devotion is a mechanically retweaked version of chroma with a new name and flavor. [3] [4] [5]
Rules
From the ()
Rulings
- Numeric mana symbols (
, 
, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color. - Devotion counts only mana symbols in your permanents' mana costs — the cost in the upper right corner of the card.
- Mana symbols in text boxes of permanents you control, such as activation costs or the big mana symbols on basic lands, do not count toward your devotion to any color.
- Only colored mana symbols count; it doesn't matter how much a permanent costs to cast, just how much colored mana.
- If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
- Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their colors.
Examples
- A permanent that costs
adds one to your devotion to black. - A permanent that costs
adds three to your devotion to red. - A permanent that costs
adds one to your devotion to green and one to your devotion to white. - A permanent that costs Template:RgTemplate:Rg adds two to your devotion to red, two to your devotion to green, or two to your devotion to red and green.[1]
Color percentages
There is a total of 33 cards that involve devotion, which divide by color as such:
- Multicolored = 30 %
- Black = 21 %
- Green = 19 %
- White = 9 %
- Blue = 9 %
- Red = 9 %
- Land = 3 %
Trivia
- Bloodthirsty Ogre and Pious Kitsune from Champions of Kamigawa use Devotion counters.
- Increasing Devotion from Dark Ascension was concepted before the Theros block and doesn't use the Devotion mechanic.
References
- ↑ Adam Prosak (December 06, 2013). "Developing Devotion". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ magicthegathering.com Staff (September 02, 2013). "The Mechanics of Theros". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (September 9, 2013). "A Theros By Any Other Name, Part 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (December 02, 2013). "I Second That Devotion". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Template:NewRef