Say you had a 10 mana vanilla minion, what are the worst stats you could potentially give it? A 1/1 minion is still useful as a ping, and even a 0/0 minion would be beneficial to Bolvar Fordragon and Flesheating Ghoul.
Obviously 0/0 would be the worst stats since even bad stats are better than no stats.
No, a 0-0 could survive with buffing mechanics like the mistcaller. The worst stats would be -x, where x is the lowest number you can't possibly buff to positive. And... it cant have a deathrattle!
Obviously 0/0 would be the worst stats since even bad stats are better than no stats.
Ah, but that synergizes with death effects like Bolvar and Ghoul. I'd argue that a 0/2, for example, is worse because it won't die, and it also takes up one of seven precious slots on your board.
Even a 0/2 could be buffed and made into an early tank. Sure, you'd never play it for 10 mana, but then you'd never play anything that is barely vanilla at 10 mana. Even abnormal stats with no effects would see little play, I bet.
I think it really depends on the real deck.
We can't argue of raw stats out of the blue. They do exist in a real environment and with various other factors such as buffs (stats, tank, etc) and effects (deathrattle, auras, battlecry, etc).
0/1 can't be targeted by spells or hero powers, can't be buffed by other minions. at the end of your turn summon this minion 6 more times, can't be silenced or affected by aoe :D
Why you might ask? Because it would always be compared to Faceless Behemoth, which already isn't too good. And if that isn't enough, then people would bring up the even worse War Golem, which boasts the same stats as that minion, but costs 3 mana less. And obviously, that would result in that card being the biggest joke released ever. When speaking of the biggest joke ever, just look at Purify.
What makes people believe Purify is a terrible card? The fact that coupled with a not too overwhelming effect, there are also way better similar alternatives for the same cost: Flare, Slam, heck, even Novice Engineer...
People tend to compare things all the time. That means they also compare cards across every class, even though it doesn't make sense at all.
That also is the reason why Recycle is regarded as a bad card, although it actually has no bad effect. People will always think of the Shadow Words, Entomb, Assassinate...
EDIT: Of course 0/3 or something is worse (0/1 is better because of the fact it could have an easily triggerable Deathrattle), but I wanted to keep it kinda realistic (sounds quite stupid, but still)
Say you had a 10 mana vanilla minion, what are the worst stats you could potentially give it? A 1/1 minion is still useful as a ping, and even a 0/0 minion would be beneficial to Bolvar Fordragon and Flesheating Ghoul.
6/9
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A 0/0 just dies when it hits the board since it's got no health
Even a 0/2 could be buffed and made into an early tank. Sure, you'd never play it for 10 mana, but then you'd never play anything that is barely vanilla at 10 mana. Even abnormal stats with no effects would see little play, I bet.
I think it really depends on the real deck.
We can't argue of raw stats out of the blue. They do exist in a real environment and with various other factors such as buffs (stats, tank, etc) and effects (deathrattle, auras, battlecry, etc).
Dumb thread is dumb
7/7
Why you might ask? Because it would always be compared to Faceless Behemoth, which already isn't too good. And if that isn't enough, then people would bring up the even worse War Golem, which boasts the same stats as that minion, but costs 3 mana less. And obviously, that would result in that card being the biggest joke released ever. When speaking of the biggest joke ever, just look at Purify.
What makes people believe Purify is a terrible card? The fact that coupled with a not too overwhelming effect, there are also way better similar alternatives for the same cost: Flare, Slam, heck, even Novice Engineer...
People tend to compare things all the time. That means they also compare cards across every class, even though it doesn't make sense at all.
That also is the reason why Recycle is regarded as a bad card, although it actually has no bad effect. People will always think of the Shadow Words, Entomb, Assassinate...
EDIT: Of course 0/3 or something is worse (0/1 is better because of the fact it could have an easily triggerable Deathrattle), but I wanted to keep it kinda realistic (sounds quite stupid, but still)