Not true, actually.

There are 4 types of cards; Characters, Locations, Equipment, and Plot Twists. Just like a story, there are Plot Twists to change what happens. For example, Visionary might be attacked by another character, and while that character is bigger than Visionary, Vizh might have a Nasty Surprise in store for the attacker.



All of a sudden Visionary is a much bigger threat.




Actually, Visionary is far from the worst character you could draw. See, each turn you play a resource and gain 1 Resource Point. You use Resource Points to recruit characters. So on Turn 1, you have 1 Resource Point, Turn 2 you'd have 2, etc. So yes, you don't want to recruit Visionary on Turn 8, he's a great play for Turn 2 because he has the potential to get you extra cards. Card advantage is key to success in any card game.




There are characters with very low attack and defense values that have a power that is very effective; often when a character has a great power they might have lower stats to balance the effect. For example:



Lady Shiva is a 7-cost character. A standard "body" for a 7-drop is about 15 or 16 ATK and 15 or 16 DEF. Lady Shiva is therefore very small for her recruit cost, but she has the ability to remove a character from the board without even attacking it. It's a very powerful ability, so to balance it the designers gave her much smaller attack and defence values.

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