Draenei Totemcarver
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Battlecry: Gain +1/+1 for each friendly Totem.
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It's nice to find a real craftsman in this day and age of mass-produced totems.
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Battlecry: Gain +1/+1 for each friendly Totem.
It's nice to find a real craftsman in this day and age of mass-produced totems.
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Never thought of that odd bonus ;D
I think this card is good and will fit nicely into decks for experienced Shaman players.
I actually have a totemic might deck currently, and it really isn't as bad as you'd think lol. Power word shield is a good card right? Well it's a power word shield for 1 less mana on multiple targets. To make a totemic might deck successful though, you need to be running lots of removal. That's what makes it so your totems stick. Ive seen people run totemic might in malygos shaman before and that's kind of the idea. I don't see the carver being more than a 1 include because of the competition it would have with cards like fire elemental, argus, and the other removal cards you already have to include. Card is really good though. 4 mana 5 5s are really good anyway, and the chances of having at least 1 totem on turn 4 are decent. Definately a great arena card. I love the art too, looks a lot different than most of the other card art. Kinda has a cave-painting neanderthal feel to it. I'm really glad to see shaman not has numerous archetypes to chose from. Things have gone a long way for the classes since Naxx
Power Word: Shield is that good mostly becouse it draws you a card in addition to the buff.
Power Word: Shield could just as well be [Draw a card.] and still be used. Based off of other cards, drawing a card is worth 1.5ish mana, which gives Power Word: Shield insane value. The two are incomparable.
ye no overload!
In constructed I agree. But this is a real good arena card. Typically it is easy getting at least one totem on the board and that results in a 5/5 for 4 which is good value.
Yeh but this one is 4 mana 4/4, Frostwolf Warlord is 5 mana 4/4. Also you can play this with a totem in top deck mode and get 5/5, great for arena for sure.
It was always pretty smart to kill totems before. But even silenced totems now are still a threat simply because of their clan. Shaman looking to get some huge boosts with this expansion.
I agree this is probably worse than Frostwolf Warlord. I actually don't mind Frostwolf Warlord in an aggro Shaman deck but if that isn't seeing competitive play then this definitely won't.
How is it worse? Played to an empty board... a 4/4 for 4 mana is passable; a 4/4 for 5 is bloody awful. And there will be plenty of ways to generate lots of totems in this expac.
I'm not saying it's necessarily good... But if you really think it's worse than warlord, well, mathz too stronk for you apparently.
Because if you planned on playing either of them to an empty board they wouldn't have been in your deck in the first place.
Obviously. And there could be possibilities to make Totemcarver a high value card. We'll have to see what else gets released, but Totemcarver shouldn't be written off.