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.”
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