Charging Badger

The trample on a one-mana 1/1 is the joke and the design lesson at once. A 1/1 with trample almost never connects for more than the single point it was already going to deal: the keyword only matters once the body is large enough that a chump blocker leaves damage to spill, and a vanilla one-drop will never get there on its own. What you are looking at is a deliberately stripped-down pump target, a creature whose entire value proposition is that it is cheap and that any +X/+X you stack on it carries through to the opponent's face. It exists to be the recipient of a buff, not the source of one. The card's reputation, such as it is, comes from the gap between its harmless statline and its unusually grandiose name and art, a piece of common-rarity comedy that the player base has kept alive far longer than its gameplay ever warranted. As a strict baseline, it is functionally interchangeable with any other green one-mana 1/1 carrying a single evergreen keyword; the trample is the only thing separating it from a true vanilla creature, and only in a deck built to make that trample mean something.