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Does Phyrexian mana count toward devotion?

Short answer
Yes — Phyrexian mana symbols printed on a card count toward devotion for the appropriate color.

Devotion counts the number of colored mana symbols in the mana costs of permanents you control (CR 700.5). A Phyrexian mana symbol such as {G/P} is a hybrid symbol that represents either one green mana or 2 life. Crucially, it is still a green colored mana symbol printed in the card's mana cost.

CR 202.2c states that a Phyrexian mana symbol is a colored symbol for the purpose of determining a card's color and for other rules that reference colored mana symbols. Because devotion explicitly looks at colored mana symbols in mana costs (CR 700.5), a Phyrexian mana symbol contributes one pip of its associated color to devotion.

For example, if you control Birthing Pod (mana cost {3}{G/P}), it contributes one green pip to your devotion to green, even though you might have paid 2 life instead of {G} when you cast it. What you paid is irrelevant; only the printed mana cost matters.

Similarly, a card with {W/P}{W/P} in its cost contributes two white pips to devotion to white. The key principle is that devotion checks the mana cost as printed on the card, not how it was paid.

HIGH confidence CR 202.2c CR 700.5
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