We've seen this card before, right? It's just
Spectral Procession and/or Conqueror's Pledge
for a little more mana, right? Well, not
exactly. It interacts with Dark Ascension's
weirdly-parsing yet powerful Human tribal cards.
It has a built-in defense against cards like
Negate that so often mess with token-generating
cards. It has at least the potential to give
you both the early large horde and the late
ridiculous horde, where some other similar cards
make you choose. And it does all this while
managing to actually inspire me, which I mention
because in 17 years I've found very few cards
from the white-light-law-community alignment in
Magic actually moving. Play it often, and play
it well.
Today's card of the day is Increasing Devotion
which for five mana puts five 1/1 White human
tokens into play and for nine can be cast from
the graveyard through Flashback to put ten
tokens into play. Five tokens for five
mana is a strong addition to sit at the high end
of a White or Black and White token build's mana
curve. Paying nine for the Flashback is
fairly unlikely in most competitive games, but
having the option is certainly nice and if it is
used will likely win the game. Overall
with the support tokens have currently this will
be seeing play and making an impact for some
time to come.
In Limited one card that can produce fifteen
tokens over two turns is a very efficient pick
that is an excellent topdeck and with just two
White in either cost easily managed in
multicolor decks. The Flashback cost is
not unreasonable in the format and the advantage
tokens offer in the creature dominated
environment speaks for itself. With or
without support five tokens can do quite a bit
of damage to an opponent lacking blockers and
five tokens can stall most offensives for enough
time to recover. An easy first pick in
Booster and only rarely should be left in the
sidedeck of Sealed pools.
Welcome to
another card of the day review here at Pojo.com.
Today we are taking a look at Increasing
Devotion from Dark Ascension. Increasing
Devotion is a rare white sorcery that costs
three generic and two white mana. Increasing
Devotion puts 5 1/1 white human creature tokens
onto the battlefield, but if you cast it from
the graveyard, it puts 10 of those tokens onto
the battlefield instead, with a Flashback cost
of seven generic mana and two white mana.
All of the “Increasing” cards in their own ways
are amazing. Especially once you know how to
best exploit them. Obviously getting the base
effect will be nice, but we all truly want that
nice re-cast effect. But since the price gets so
jacked up, it may seem like we could never get
the full benefit. But, that is a fact that is
easily overlooked. Out of Dark Ascension an
artifact was printed that is called Altar of the
Lost. Altar of the Lost allows you to add two
mana of any color but only to pay for Flashback
costs. Should you have two or even three of
these out, that is half of the mana needed to
Flashback even Increasing Devotion! But let’s
not stop the amazing fun there! Should you run a
green and white deck, Parallel Lives combos
perfectly with Increasing Devotion. The first
drop nets you the ten tokens, and Flashback
grants you twenty! And that is just with one
Parallel Lives out! Have two out, and then it is
twenty the first time, forty the second! And
just to finish the cycle of OMG off, run those
combos with, say, Warstorm Surge, and end the
game without ever even needing to attack!
