Reverent Hunter is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
When this creature enters, put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to your devotion to green. (Eachin the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Complete guide
Reverent Hunter is a powerful addition to mono-green decks, rewarding you for filling the battlefield with green mana symbols. This Human Archer grows larger the more committed you are to the forest, making it a potentially massive threat for just three mana.
Understanding Devotion
Reverent Hunter utilizes the Devotion mechanic. To calculate your devotion to green, count every {G} symbol in the mana costs of all permanents you control on the battlefield. Note that only symbols in the upper-right corner (mana cost) count; symbols in the text box or numeric symbols like {1} or {2} are ignored.
Step-by-Step Resolution
When Reverent Hunter enters the battlefield, its triggered ability goes on the stack. The game checks your devotion to green only at the moment the ability resolves. If Reverent Hunter is still on the battlefield when the ability resolves, its own {G} in its mana cost will count toward the total number of +1/+1 counters it receives.
Timing and Strategy
Since the ability scales with your board state, it is often best to play this card after you have established other green permanents. If your opponent destroys your other green permanents in response to the trigger, the number of counters added will decrease, as devotion is calculated upon resolution.
Interaction examples
If you control no other permanents with green mana symbols, Reverent Hunter enters and its ability checks your devotion. Since it is on the battlefield, it counts its own {G} symbol. It receives one +1/+1 counter, becoming a 2/2 creature.
Sakura-Tribe ElderIf you control Sakura-Tribe Elder when Reverent Hunter enters, you have one {G} from the Elder and one {G} from the Hunter. The Hunter's ability resolves, sees a devotion of two, and places two +1/+1 counters on itself.
Solemn SimulacrumSolemn Simulacrum is a colorless artifact creature. Even though it is a permanent you control, it has no {G} symbols in its mana cost. If these are your only two permanents, Reverent Hunter's ability will only count its own {G} symbol, resulting in a single +1/+1 counter.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Reverent Hunter
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Numeric mana symbols (
, 
, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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