Pointed Discussion

Call me crazy, but I can see this getting some pretty big play in Standard. It's a potential 4/5 for 1!

See: Affinity

Also see: Pauper

Worst case: 4/5 for 6b -- Bad.

Pack Rat scenario: Just an extra card to donate. Or, with high enough devotion, is played for it's discounted casting cost alongside a Rat (or any other permanents in the deck). -- Good.

Best case: it's a top-deck 4/5 for 1 -- Excellent. Could put another big body on the field while leaving enough mana up to play instants/sorceries that are left in-hand.

Seems like, given its potential, that it should have been uncommon.

This brings back memories of my dear friend ghoultree. Bringing out a huge creature for only 1 mana. Good times indeed.

Great beater for Limited devotion decks. Outside of Limited a vanilla 4/5 won't be doing much. The art is cool too!

Since 'affinity for black' is nowhere near as powerful as just plain affinity, I'm pretty sure this card will end up in one of two scenarios most often: stuck in your hand as its too costly to play without a board presence, or a cheap card when you already have a nice presence. I think people are overhyping this creature and unless it finds a nice deck--unlikely though, since black has many good cards all fighting for spots--it just won't see much play in Standard. And definitely not in Limited, since you practically have to go two colors.

It is perfectly limited playable. Black has a lot of high devotion on tiny EtB bodies and could use an occasional beatstick. 5 toughness is also a magic number for dodging removal in the format.

Constructed, well, no. 7 as an initial cost is too high. In standard, you have the (way more) consistent plan of Desecration Demon as your undercosted beater. In pauper, your creatures are just spells that can chump block. You aren't in the market for vanilla beef. It could maybe be worth sideboard slots against Affinity decks, as they have a lot of trouble with five toughness. Even then, board stalling isn't the greatest if they're still on the fling plan.

On comparing this to affinity, don't. Affinity meant all your lands tapped for two mana until you had board presence. Once you had board presence, they turned into damage. This card does not in any way resemble that.

{B} for a 4/5? Sign me up, I could see this guy getting played in mono-{B} pauper devotion deck alongside Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

Eh. In the end it's just a beatstick. I'm not against beatsticks or anything, but black usually doesn't play to them as well as, say, green or red.

Very solid for heavily-black decks. Played one in the pre-release and it did me well more than once. Not a GREAT card by any means -- but a perfect common for a Limited environment.

Someone at the prerelease nicknamed this beast marshmallow Titan.

4/5 for is fantastic, and even at around or even it's still playable.

Holy crap

Pox can use this off of Bloodghasts, Liliana of the Veil or Nether Spirit.

Played this card last night in a tournament and it failed to impress...too many cards to counter the benefits of this card...it made it two turns before the fated, "Dark Betrayal" came a knocking and let the dogs out...I was running a RB draft and had to watch the big boy sleep with the fishes...not sure of the long term usefulness of this titan...

If this was 5BB, it would be modern playable.

Do note that your opponent's can't kill one of your black permanents in response to this being cast to increase the cost- the cost is calculated and can't change when this is actually cast unlike how most devotion cards work. If you suspect someone has this/ know they do from previous games make sure to use your instant removal before they even have the chance to cast this.

Affinity for devotion? PLEASE MAKE THIS A THING WIZARDS

Affinity for black mana symbols. Actually, this is a pretty solid common if you are drafting base black or especially mono-black. You aren't usually realistically going to be casting this for {B}, but it wouldn't be remotely out of the question to be casting it for {3}{B} which is way better than most black giants in the common slot.
Oh and I guess he's not bad in pauper as well.

I finally got to play this guy in casual yesterday, and it did exactly what I wanted it to. One came out for four mana, and another came out for one. It was fast and dangerous. Devotion is a nice mechanic. The old school player in me loves the idea of a drawback-less 4/5 coming out for 4 mana, and when it's even less, it's frightening. Works well with all of the character nerfing auras in this block.