Alchemy Rebalancing for April 4th, 2023

With tomorrow’s patch, we will get a brand new round of Alchemy buffs! Sometimes these include nerfs, but most of them have been pure buffs and this iteration is no different! This time, the Alchemy team focused on beefing up the Kamigawa Ninja cards to make them more viable and to buff more defensively minded cards as well!

Ninjas

Dokuchi Silencer

• Changed “discard a creature card” to “discard a card.”

Futurist Operative

• Cost U (from 3U)
• Now 0/4 (from 3/4)

Krydle of Baldur’s Gate

• Removed the mana cost from the second ability.

Moon-Circuit Hacker

• Now scries 2 before drawing a card.

Nezumi Prowler

• Changed “target creature you control gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn” to “put a deathtouch counter and a lifelink counter on target creature you control.”

Nightclub Bouncer

• Changed “This spell costs 1 more to cast” to “This spell costs 2 more to cast.”

Prosperous Thief

• Now 2/4 (from 3/2)

Satoru Umezawa

• Now 3/4 (from 2/4)
• Changed “Each creature card in your hand has ninjutsu 2UB” to “Each creature card in your hand has ninjutsu 1UB.”

Nashi, Moon Sage’s Scion

• Cost: Ninjutsu 2B (from 3B)

Silver-Fur Master

• Cost: Ninjutsu H (a single U/B hybrid mana symbol) (from UB)

Swarm Saboteur

• Cost: Ninjutsu B (from 1B)

Thousand-Faced Shadow

• Cost: Ninjutsu 2U (from 2UU)

Defensive Tools

These buffs aim to improve tools that help counter aggressive decks such as Mono-Red. Increasing toughness to 4 on creatures and increasing the life gain on cards better matches them against Lightning Strike and helps decks reach the late game against aggressive decks.

Knockout Blow’s rebalance is intended to buff it in main decks by allowing it to destroy cards like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse; Raffine, Scheming Seer; and Thundering Raiju

Dawnbringer Cleric

• Now 1/4 (from 1/3)

Circuit Mender

• Changed “you gain 2 life” to “you gain 3 life.”

Haywire Mite

• Changed “you gain 2 life” to “you gain 3 life.”
• Now 1/2 (from 1/1)

Hinterland Chef

• Now 3/4 (from 3/3)

Knockout Blow

• Changed “Knockout Blow deals 4 damage to attacking or blocking creature” to “Destroy target tapped creature.”

Lonely End

• Changed “you gain 2 life” to “you gain 3 life.”

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