Basic Trope: A playable or selectable unit in a game has no special abilities.
- Straight: In the TV Tropes Online Collectible Card Game, Edit Warrior is a 2 HP/1 AP unit for 1 cost, with no abilities.
- Exaggerated: Edit Warrior isn't even part of any groups or tribes, so it can't do anything aside from attack and take attacks.
- Downplayed:
- Edit Warrior is a French vanilla — it has a keyword ability that lets it defend whatever's behind it from piercing attacks, but has no abilities outside of that.
- Edit Warrior is a virtual vanilla — when played, it causes all other Edit Warriors to gain 1 AP, but has no abilities outside of that.
- Justified: In-universe, Edit Warriors are trained en masse and given only cheap equipment, so they're not able to do much outside of basic attacks.
- Inverted: Edit Warrior has every ability in the game.
- Subverted:
- Edit Warrior has an unlisted ability to deal double damage to any Scrappy-tribe character it attacks, and there are no other ability-less units in the game.
- Edit Warrior seems like a plain unit at first, but adding Base-Breaking Character to your deck gives every Edit Warrior the ability to make a bonus attack at the end of each turn.
- Double Subverted: A later expansion powercreeps Edit Warrior with the addition of Edit Soldier, a 2 HP/2 AP unit for 1 cost which truly has no abilities.
- Parodied: When Edit Warriors talk in other media, they prove to be vanilla in personality as well, having few traits to speak of.
- Zig-Zagged: Buffs and nerfs cause the vanilla status of units to shift wildly.
- Averted: Every card in the game has at least one ability.
- Enforced: "We need to make a basic card that's simple and easy to understand for new players."
- Lampshaded: Edit Warrior's flavor text says:No edit of his shall be undone! Basic and reliable. Armor infused with 100% pure vanilla extract.
- Invoked: A player uses a card which removes the special abilities of all units, turning everything on the field into vanillas.
- Exploited: A player uses Edit Warrior and other vanillas alongside a card which removes the special abilities of all units, which obviously doesn't affect their own cards and leaves them with an advantage in raw stats.
- Defied: A player runs Edit Warrior and other vanillas alongside cards which give those cards special abilities, so they can benefit from both the vanillas' high stats and the added abilities.
- Discussed: "We've got a platoon of Edit Warriors ready to show those vandals what they're made of! Now, they're working on the cheap, so don't expect them to have any fancy special abilities."
- Conversed: "My deck leads off with Edit Warriors. Sure, they don't have any abilities, but who needs 'em when they're so tough for a 1-cost unit?"
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