A combo deck built around casting a ton of spells, generating a bunch of mana, drawing a bunch of cards, and killing the opponent in some offhanded way after performing 20 to 30 mostly meaningless actions is not my favorite kind of Magic
Phenax, God of Deception | Illustration by Ryan Barger Devotion is a mechanic that counts the number and type of colored mana symbols in the mana costs of your permanents
At the time of release, the One Piece Game had yet to gain a ton of popularity, which is why there are so few of them nowand why theyre so expensive
Likewise, if a spell or ability reduces the amount of mana it costs you to cast a spell with converge, you can't ignore that cost reduction in order to spend more colors of mana
This creature has two abilities, and those two abilities are super powerful when working together
And just in case you thought it couldn't get any worse, he lists "5" as an example of a Mersenne prime, which