Yes, but even in naruto it's safe to assume certain things using common sense isn't it?

Quote Originally Posted by Uchiha Barles
Clones are destroyable. If your clone gets destroyed during a mission, and you're say, miles and miles back home, the mission is over, and trying again might not be an option. Now, you can send a clone and have that clone make clones, but again, the power level of each clone is severely reduce. The plan of sending a clone to do up to a B rank mission might be fine, but the second you have a mission where you can expect a moderate amount of competent resistance, you don't just send a clone. You go. Plus there's the matter of dealing with the unexpected, where what might've begun as, say an A rank mission, ends up becomming an SSJ3 rank mission. Sending a shadow clone to do a mission is plain...unprofessional.
Yeah but not all ninjas are Hatake Kakashi, who can have their mision upgraded by 1 or 2 grades and do just fine.

If that happened to the average ninja having the original there would only get him killed, while having only kage bunshins would at least give you a chance to come back with a stronger group of ninjas or at least come back knowing the strength of your enemy to some extent.

You guys keep saying it would suck because the clones die so easily. You know what really sucks? Dying