Yeah, I think it'll be pretty useful to have around in any sort of diamond deck.

Three color decks are definitely easier to achieve here than in something like Magic, depending on your thresholds - but it's great that you can basically use every color mana for anything...

Does the abilities on this cards stack?
or can you only have one at a time?
If they do stack, this Card is great .

and I'm Seeing some Great diamond cards, but for some reason I still don't like this shard color...
Can't really tell Why...

You can have all of them at once, yes.

I wonder if you can activate the +1/+1 more than once, though...

why wouldn't you be able to use 6 shards to push the totem +2/+2
if you can't do that the card is useless

usually if it is not possible to use a ability more than once it is written somewhere.

Wouldn't want to stack it up too much. One murder and all that work was for nothing.

Well, if you use a diamond/blood deck, you can always use a card like [cards=hex]Call The Grave[/cards] ".
It will keep his abilities...

It's definitely a good resource sink if you have nothing else to spend it on.

Not sure what you mean by the first bit.

You're "activating the heads", so thematically it doesn't make any sense to be able to activate any one effect more than once.

Wait you don't think you can pump it +1/+1 every turn? You can the way I read the card...

I think you may be reading too into the image of the card. Based on how it is written, I'd expect you can redo the +1/+1.

If you look at it's equipment, you will be able too see that it can effect all your troops as well. having a cards that gives +1/+1 to all your troops for 3 shards is amazingly strong if you can do it multiple times.
I can see PVE decks of low shard creaturs, totems, and some speelshield speels to give your totem.

So thematically you add heads when you pump it, not just activate the ones depicted. Problem solved. :) If there's a limitation on how many times you can use the abilities, and its not stated on the card, that's a big fat game mechanic fail. Imagine drafting a set for the first time and not being able to rely on a careful reading of the words on the card to tell you everything you need to know about how the card functions.

Also, the investment in this style of pumping takes on a very different feel than in Magic because the effects are permanent. As long as they keep graveyard/fetch mechanics in the active rotation I think most of these permanent buffs will stay pretty popular.

Haha we could be going through all this discussion just to see the Totem end up with "once per game" on it when released :)

Which is why I see this card working wonders in draft, but no so much on regular PvP. They will always pack some troop removal because of potential problems like this.