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Worst cards ever printed?

What's your top 3 for the worst cards ever printed? My list goes like this;

1- Glacial Mysteries: Even if you run like 20 secrets in your deck it's still a bad card. It's just that bad. Getting this from random card generation is the worst feeling ever.

2- Duskfallen Aviana: If you happen to play it or summon it from your hand, do your best to evolve it somehow, otherwise the chances are you will lose. Still a bit better than No:1 since it's not completely unplayable, it has a 3-7 body and can serve as a desperation play.

3- Millhouse Manastorm: A great way to lose a hard winning game is to play this guy. It makes impossible combos possible, only for your opponent though. I've personally never seen this guy working out, not even once. It's one of the best 2 drops you can summon though so unless you play it from hand it's extremely good to get as a random 2 drop with a 4-4 statline.

Iksar

Posted 5 years, 11 months ago (Source)

I don't think we'll ever know. It's hard to answer this question through science because all the 'worst' cards are cards most likely to be used by novice players at low ranks, which in some ways skews the data unfairly. Because we don't match by MMR at low ranks and in Legend players don't play enough poor quality cards to collect enough data..... we can only make our best guess. It's also pretty difficult to compare different card qualities across archetypes.

Example:

Say you have a deck that is 55% win rate and a card within that deck that when drawn you have a 65% win rate.

Then say you have another deck that is a 35% win rate and a card within that deck that when drawn you have a 48% win rate.

Which card is better?

It's not really that important of a question to answer for game balance reasons but it does beg the question of whether or not a card can be powerful if it doesn't go in a powerful deck. It's subjective.

For what it's worth, the answer to the OP's question through pure win rate data used to be Gang Up back in the old days. Not sure what it is now.
Iksar

Posted 5 years, 11 months ago (Source)

Okay nerd. -_- ;)

Being a nerd is cool and hip right?

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<div class="md"><p>I don't think we'll ever know. It's hard to answer this question through science because all the 'worst' cards are cards most likely to be used by novice players at low ranks, which in some ways skews the data unfairly. Because we don't match by MMR at low ranks and in Legend players don't play enough poor quality cards to collect enough data..... we can only make our best guess. It's also pretty difficult to compare different card qualities across archetypes.</p>

<p>Example:</p>

<p>Say you have a deck that is 55% win rate and a card within that deck that when drawn you have a 65% win rate.</p>

<p>Then say you have another deck that is a 35% win rate and a card within that deck that when drawn you have a 48% win rate.</p>

<p>Which card is better?</p>

<p>It's not really that important of a question to answer for game balance reasons but it does beg the question of whether or not a card can be powerful if it doesn't go in a powerful deck. It's subjective.</p>

<p>For what it's worth, the answer to the OP's question through pure win rate data used to be Gang Up back in the old days. Not sure what it is now.</p>
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    <div class="md"><p>Okay nerd. -_-      ;)</p>
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<div class="md"><p>Being a nerd is cool and hip right?</p>
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<p><div class="md"><p>I don't think we'll ever know. It's hard to answer this question through science because all the 'worst' cards are cards most likely to be used by novice players at low ranks, which in some ways skews the data unfairly. Because we don't match by MMR at low ranks and in Legend players don't play enough poor quality cards to collect enough data..... we can only make our best guess. It's also pretty difficult to compare different card qualities across archetypes.</p>

<p>Example:</p>

<p>Say you have a deck that is 55% win rate and a card within that deck that when drawn you have a 65% win rate.</p>

<p>Then say you have another deck that is a 35% win rate and a card within that deck that when drawn you have a 48% win rate.</p>

<p>Which card is better?</p>

<p>It's not really that important of a question to answer for game balance reasons but it does beg the question of whether or not a card can be powerful if it doesn't go in a powerful deck. It's subjective.</p>

<p>For what it's worth, the answer to the OP's question through pure win rate data used to be Gang Up back in the old days. Not sure what it is now.</p>
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<p><div class="md"><p>Being a nerd is cool and hip right?</p>
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