Blight-Breath Catoblepas
Removal that scales with commitment is a devotion set's cleanest reward, and this is the version that ties its answer directly to how many black pips you have already sunk onto the battlefield. Because the spell itself costs , its own two black pips are baked into the count before the trigger even resolves, so the floor is -2/-2: enough to clear a two-drop, never nothing. In a deck built to push devotion, that number climbs fast, and the enters-the-battlefield trigger becomes a single-target kill spell stapled to a body, capable of shrinking almost anything an opponent has committed. That variance is the whole bargain: the effect pays out only as much as your permanents have earned it, which makes it a payoff rather than a baseline removal spell. The 3/2 is beside the point; it exists to carry the trigger and leave two more black pips on the board for whatever devotion payoff comes next. What shapes the design is the choice of -X/-X until end of turn rather than destruction: it kills through indestructible and sidesteps regeneration, but it lifts at end of turn, so anything it fails to reduce to zero survives to attack back. Devotion has always asked for flexibility in exchange for a scaling ceiling, and this sits squarely in that tradition: a removal spell that is a blowout or a shrug depending entirely on the board you built to cast it.
