This card is confusing as hell. Turning a weapon into a card draw engine is weird and clunky. It is a weapon you'd basically never want to attack with. And the deathrattle feels too specific to make obvious sense.
Literally the same exact wording used on an existing card.
SoJ: Summon minion, give it +1/+1. In turn, lose durability.
Fake card: Summon totem, draw card. In turn, lose durability. Or use
Inspire as a keyword instead if you want.
SoJ is a card you use for its buffing power OR in a worst case scenario use it to attack with. The fake card is exactly the same. You'll want to play it for the card draw, but if you're in a pinch feel free to take a swing with it.
The Deathrattle part is simply stating that if/when the weapon is destroyed, you draw cards equal to the durability it had at the time of destruction. That number can either be 3, 2, 1, or 0 (in which case you draw nothing). It, like Sword of Justice, is a weapon that rather than be used for attacking has an alternate function. For SoJ, that use is buffing your minions. For the fake card, that use is card draw (something shaman needs). To make it fairer than Sword of Justice, it has lower durability, can only function with Totems (instead of -all- minions), and in general has a higher activation cost (currently there are no 0-cost Totems).
It's based off of a card that already exists, I'm not sure why you're confused. Deathrattle has also appeared on weapons before, too. The reason why I tied it to a weapon is because thematically it would make sense that a "Totem Pole" affects a Shaman's Totems in some way. They already had plenty of 'offensive' weapons with Stormforged Axe and Doomhammer. Why not give them something akin to the Paladin (the counterparts of Shamans)? Can't give 'em Secrets, so weapons are the next best thing. They already have enough card draw-based minions as it is (Mana Tide Totem, Siltfin Spiritwalker, Neptulon).
