Talk:Nanomachine Ninja, Byakuya/@comment-25664852-20150528105214/@comment-4764137-20150528183322

Hey, Buddyfight100, I'd like to make an argument for your consideration that "Very Good" can fall under "Balanced". First, let's look at balance as a scale, on which you lay out an entire deck, side-by-side, and cards are weighted by their quality; how good or bad they are. The worse the card, the lighter it is, the better, the heavier. Our scale looks something like this:

Terrible     Pretty bad     Bad     Underwhelming     Average     Decent     Good     Very Good     Amazing

Each of these can be easily achieved mathematically by the amount of overall plussing or minusing the card does. Average is a wash, Underwhelming is -.5, Good is +1, etc. A single card does not tip the scale if there are enoug cards that balance it out. A card/deck is broken when the scale is tipped too far in either direction. I'd also like to point out that this card is good for Ninjas, but mathematically...

Its counter being used to destroy monsters is a wash, which would make this card Average on the scale (-1 to +1 via monster destruction), but should you use this card's shadow dive, you're performing -1 to +.5, with an overall -.5, which puts this card at an average of -.25, +/-.25 depending on how it's used. Overall, this card is Underwhelming on the scale, and thus is very far from broken. In the context on Ninjas, who can plus a fair bit on their own, it's not a bad card, and in fact can be pretty nice for field clearing and getting extra damage in, but that doesn't make this card broken. It's not even Very Good on the scale, it's just decent in the context of the deck.