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Increasing Devotion Increasing Devotion can create an army of tokens very fast

These were Magic's first four-color legendary creatures, which opened up a huge swathe of deckbuilding options that were only previously available to five-color decks

Furthermore, there are decks that, by their very nature, need to play somewhat defensively and have a longer range compared to the rest of the meta

Double strike is a perfect fit

This might seem like a bummer at first, but it neuters some potentially oppressive interactions and opens up some fun combos

(This is the same reason I've stopped playing Phyrexian Arena in Standardit's just too risky with Sheoldred being so heavily played.) In Modern, the card could be a Seismic Assault replacement and does have the huge, huge upside of only requiring one red mana (although it does cost one more mana overall), but is it going to be fast enough