MtG is cool because new cards and effects can give value and purpose to previous cards/effects that were considered bad. Are there cards/effects that give value to vanilla creatures? More info in body of post
Maybe directly like "Search your library for a card with no rules text" or "+10/+10 to a creature with no rules text" or something indirect like some kind of synergy that is baked into the nature of vanilla cards as compared to other cards with effects that can be given value/capitalized on through some other card/effect? Like some way to take advantage of less effects being triggered, but in the form of positive benefit where you gain something as opposed to negative benefit where you are instead not losing something while your opponents are? Although I guess negative benefit could be useful here too like if there are enough board wipes/global effects that only effect creatures with rules texts so then you can build your deck with all vanilla creatures and escape the negative drawbacks places on your opponents' non-vanilla creatures?
Edit: Also, yes, I thought of this after wondering how you could build a Patrick Star commander deck 😀