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If an action causes lethal, the end turn button turns yellow and cannot be pressed. Should they remove this feature? I mean brawl was changed for a similar reason so why not this as well?

Quote from jamheald >>

So Tuskarr Totemic has a 2 mana body. 2/7ths of the time you get a 3 drop - Totem Golem, Mana Tide Totem - from it for free. Everyone can agree that, generally, playing a 2 mana body and then a 3 drop from your hand has a value of 5 mana, but playing a 2 mana body that draws and plays a 3 drop has a value of at least 6 mana. So lets ignore the value of your normal totems and the value from Flametongue Totem and just do the maths with this:

2/7*6+5/7*2=3.1429

That's more than 3.

Quote from Nxzx >>

It can be good and it can be awful, part of the RNG gaming. but, mostly it is a good card

Quote from HagbartFrandsen >>

Tuskar totemic gives you a minimum of 7 stats, which is all you can ask for for three mana without clear drawbacks.

The 3/7 change "of getting something good" you are referring to seems i bit spoiled, as you make it sound like vanilla stats spread on two bodies is somehow a bad deal? Which is just wrong especially since the 3/7 is referring to standard, where value is a bit more important these days.

Shaman likes totems and they like multiple bodies on the board for cards like Flametongue Totem, Bloodlust and elvolve.

 

Quote from BarnacleEd >>

 In a vacuum, tuskar is so-so at best. As you said, the odds of a good totem are somewhat low. Even then though in the worst case you're effectively getting "vanilla 2-drop plus a totem from hero power" which isn't awful...there are definitely worse 3-drops in HS. 

However, taking into account the fact that shaman likes to have a big board (for Bloodlust, Evolve, etc) and has obvious totem synergies (Thing from Below, Primal Fusion, etc) then this is an excellent card. Don't forget the obvious Brann Bronzebeard synergy as well for potentially ridiculous value.

Quote from linvega2 >>

Your main mistake is

1)Conflating "You are ahead on board" with "You are winning": Against Control for example, you're almost always ahead on board on turn 3, but that obviously doesn't mean that you already won by then. A lot of decks right now have multiple ways of regaining board control. Tuskar Totemic is great to force your opponent to use removal and board clears earlier, which means it'll be easier to spam the board again afterwards. In general, with Midrange Shaman you're much more often ahead on board early on than not and you don't need to regain tempo, your job is to keep it.

2)Conflating "Tempo" with "Winning the game": I agree that tempo is really important in the current meta. But f.e. drawing enough cards to sustain yourself is really important right now, too. Even when you're behind on board, drawing more cards to have a higher likelihood of having strong removal/lightning storm helps a lot.

Overall though, without the strong early game and all the totem synergy, I wouldn't play Tuskar. But thanks to it, it's extremely strong with a nasty snowballing effect in my experience.

Quote from SithLordOfSnark >>

I'll stick to Standard, thank you.

Contrary to popular belief, wild is actually more noob-friendly than standard. If you play in the lower ranks that is around rank 20, you will find most decks are hand-crafted decks of which half are budget decks. You'll see decks that run amani berserker and chillwind yeti. Hand-crafted decks, in general are horrible, especially when made by rank 20s. My experience so far has been free from net decks including mysterious challenger. If you think about it, all the net decks are being built for standard including the popular meta snapshots. This encourages players to build their own deck and test them in their own environment.

TLDR: Players who complain about net decks in rank 20. Play Wild.

My current guess is you only run this card to lower your thing from below cost. It's only ran in totem shaman currently so I will discuss it that context.

The card almost always results in tempo loss.  There are 3 cases where this card is played.

1. You are behind on board.
2. You are even on board and 3. You are winning.

1. You are behind on board.

The only totem that will actually further your board state is totem golem but that is a 1/7, which is unreliable. The others do not help you recover from the board.  Getting manatide doesn't do much if you're losing.

2. You are even on board. I'll depict this as a scenario where you both have an low cost evenly stated minion on the board and it is your turn.

Playing a tuskar tometic on turn 3 almost always give the tempo to your opponent. You only have a 3/7 chance to get something good. Though, I don't think manatide is a good drop as it gives your opponent an opportunity to take advantage of the fact you only played a 3/2. Flametongue is conditionally good. It depends on the board. 3/7 is a theoretical chance. 2/7 is more close to its actual odds of getting a good totem.

3. Case 4 is similar to case 2 except manatide and flametongue are much better. Healing totem might have a chance at being good. I'll say the odds of a good totem is 3.1/7.

TLDR: Tuskar is bad because it result in losing tempo most of the time.

The reason I don't play  control shaman is because there are better classes that do it like paladin and warrior.

I think Shaman is a class that encourages tempo gameplay not control. Hex is cheap and Shaman overload cards are lower costed. In order to take advantage of its low mana cost, you need to follow it up with something.

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Quote from MCFUser175154 >>

Players who say they don't have time to hit legend. I just did from rank 5 in 6 hours. Not having enough time is a poor excuse for bad gameplay.

 It once took me 1h from rank3 and sometimes it took me dozens of hours.
Your post is at best pointless. 

Yeah, I climbed up to rank 186 legend now. I faced a few miracle rogues. Miracle rogue is slightly favoured as in the game is highly dependent on their hand. I had a 50% winrate though.

Players who say they don't have time to hit legend. I just did from rank 5 in 6 hours. Not having enough time is a poor excuse for bad gameplay.

Just hit legend with zoo with an 85% winrate from rank 5. Tempo warrior was my easier matchup. Got lucky with my 1 rogue matchup.

Certainly not enough cthun buffs to get vekler off consistently.

I would shiv it in order to find Auctioneer faster. Loot hoarder is about the only target you will have for it against a worgen deck. I wouldn't coin because it should be saved for auctioneer.

Quote from AntonAmby >>

You people still playing aggro shaman and zoo?  The new cancer is midrange shaman     ^^ 


(btw how the fak did you get the idea that Zoo could be better than Aggro Shaman against Miracle Rouge what are you rank 26?)

Quote from RushHS >>

You are entitled to your opinion, however I disagree