Increasing Devotion

The token math is the whole pitch: cast it straight for five bodies, or flashback it for ten, and the spread between those two numbers is the design's reason for existing. Most flashback cards offer the same effect twice at a steeper price; this one rewrites the payout when the spell comes back, so the graveyard cast is not a redundant copy but a strictly bigger event. That doubling reframes how you sequence the card. The front half is a respectable token swarm on its own, but the discount mindset of flashback gets inverted here: you are not paying nine mana to recast a five-token spell, you are paying nine mana for ten tokens, with the front cast functioning as a down payment that filled the board once already. For a white go-wide deck running anthems or a sacrifice engine, that means up to fifteen 1/1 Humans from a single card across two turns, all of them fodder for whatever the rest of the deck does with bodies. The Human typing is the quiet rider that turns the swarm into tribal fuel rather than generic chaff. It is a clean piece of token-generation design from an era when white's plan was the wide board, and the flashback clause makes patience the multiplier rather than the tax.