{"id":4061,"date":"2014-02-06T13:12:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T21:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:51:38","slug":"devotion-to-two-colors-and-hybrid-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2014\/02\/devotion-to-two-colors-and-hybrid-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotion to two colors and Hybrid symbols."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img  style='float:right'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Phenax, God of Deception'><\/p>While decks devoted to a single color, like blue or black, were already taking advantage of hybrid creatures like <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Nightveil+Specter&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Nightveil Specter<\/a>, the arrival of two-colored god cards should herald exciting new possibilities for Standard decks. Gods like <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Phenax%2C+God+of+Deception&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Phenax, God of Deception<\/a> require a total of seven devotion to become creatures, which is five additional devotion once you take Phenax&#8217;s own mana cost into account. Although Nightveil Specter certainly looks like it has three blue mana symbols and three black mana symbols, what it really has is three blue-black hybrid mana symbols that contribute one devotion to &#8220;blue and black&#8221;. All that&#8217;s required by devotion to two colors is that a mana symbol, or at least one half of a hybrid mana symbol, match one of the two colors required. Matching both colors is certainly flavorful, but it won&#8217;t double up on counting toward devotion. If you have a Nightveil Specter and Phenax, your total devotion to blue and black is only 5, so you&#8217;ll need 2 more mana symbols to get Phenax to materialize.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Jen Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hybrid symbols might seem a bit confusing with devotion to two colors, but they only count as one symbol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuouseffects","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}