Devotion

Devotion is a keyword introduced in Theros, where it was connected to the god theme of the set. It is a mechanically retweaked version of chroma with a new name and flavor. It always appears as Devotion to [color], where color is either white, blue, black, red or green.

Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control. There are cards that count devotion to each of the five colors, and they have many different effects based on that devotion.

Examples

• A permanent that costs 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 and two to your devotion to green.

Rulings

• 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, such as activation costs or the big mana symbols on basic lands, do not count toward your devotion.
• Only colored mana symbols count; it doesn't matter how much a permanent costs to cast, just how much colored mana.
• A permanent that looks at your devotion to a color counts the mana symbols in its own cost.
• Hybrid mana symbols and other unusual colored mana symbols also count toward your devotion to each of their colors.