This is the best creature enchantment white has for 1 mana. For a casting cost of 1, it gets +1/+1, first strike, and regeneration (of sorts). Excellent. Is it as great as Rancor? Nope, but it is the 2nd best 1 CMC creature enchantment in Magic.
Best 1 CMC Enchantments:
1) Rancor
2) Hyena Umbra
3) Clout of Dominus
All the rest...
Nice ability for 1 mana. Great card.
Posted By:
feeble2002
(1/9/2011 12:14:35 AM)
If you have That Which Was Taken out and you put a Divinity Counter on Hyena Umbra, and the creature it is attached to would be destroyed, what would happen? The rulings say the effect is mandatory, in that you must remove all damage from the creature and destroy the enchantment. However, the enchantment is indestructible, and it specifically tells you to destroy it. Therefore, would the enchantment just continue to exist?
Posted By:
igniteice
(3/20/2011 5:09:46 PM)
+1/+1, first strike, totem armour...all for just for 
?
This is great with or against infect; it can be used aggressively for your attacker or defensively for your really important creatures; it even saves them from board wipes like day of judgment.
Posted By:
immelmann
(3/26/2011 8:56:09 AM)
@ majinara
that's why you don't just fling your enchantment on any old card you want. Try killing or bouncing my Ledgewalker before I pump it up to extreme levels with chumps to sac in case you try. And did you luck out and put out a Nighthawk or other flying deathtoucher? Well your card dies and all I lost was 1p/1, first strike, totem armor. I still got a huge evader and probably creature advantage now.
Or how about saving this card for late game when it's down to top-decking and you throw this on your biggest creature? Or using this as a draw engine with your Spiritdancer and Mesa Enchantress, having you draw two cards at the same time? Some enchantments you just stick to something and hope for the best, others require specific targets to be effective. In the right deck cheap totem armors basically mean 'you gotta kill my creatures (at least) twice.'
Posted By:
mattblack04
(9/27/2011 2:07:51 PM)
By far the best totem armor. If you're playing WW or any aggro deck, this is a godsend for 1 white mana. Grants first strike and protection from removal for 1 mana, not to mention the buff...wow, just wow
Posted By:
Laguz
(4/16/2010 10:00:15 AM)
I'm getting the feeling that totem armor as an ability is pretty damn good. And it's even scaring some people (greg2367).
Posted By:
Zulp
(4/16/2010 3:18:57 PM)
This is an extremely efficient aura, which is something auras do not have a history of being. It saves your creature from a lot of removal, and also gives it +1/+1 and first strike in the mean time!
Posted By:
SleetFox
(4/16/2010 5:43:52 AM)
Makes reflexes useless.
Posted By:
raptorman333
(5/11/2010 1:06:17 PM)
This + Basilisk Collar = WIN
Posted By:
SupremeMyr
(4/16/2010 9:52:37 AM)
Best Totems are the ones that cost 1CMC
Posted By:
spectermonger
(4/17/2010 8:48:10 PM)