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, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.Purphoros, God of the Forge turns each additional creature entering under your control into two damage to every opponent. Token makers become direct pressure on the whole table, letting a red deck threaten a win without needing every creature to attack successfully. Indestructible helps keep the engine in play, and Purphoros functions as an enchantment even when your devotion is too low for it to be a creature.
Krenko, Mob Boss is an especially effective partner because a single activation can create many Goblins and therefore many separate triggers. Impact Tremors supplies a second effect with a similar plan, while Siege-Gang Commander brings multiple creatures from one card. In red-white decks, token doublers such as Mondrak, Glory Dominus increase the number of entering creatures and the damage that follows.
The activated team power boost gives surviving tokens another job. When opponents remain outside immediate trigger range, you can spend spare mana to improve a wide attack. Purphoros does not trigger from its own entry, however, so it is usually best to establish it before casting the spell that produces your creatures.
Devotion changes how opponents can interact with the card. Becoming a creature opens it to creature-specific exile or bounce, even though indestructible still protects against destruction. Build around repeated creature production rather than forcing devotion, and judge token spells partly by how many individual bodies they add for the mana invested.
