April 2016 Card Nerf
It was announced on April 20th, 2016 that Knife Juggler would receive a nerf.
- Attack reduced to 2, down from 3.
Quote from BlizzardKnife Juggler should be a good choice in decks that play many cheap minions, but with 3 Attack, it is played almost universally. We’re reducing Knife Juggler’s Attack from 3 to 2, so this card will move into a more specialized role in the decks that include it, instead of always being among the best choices for a 2 mana-cost minion.
Golden rare knife juggler looks so cool ! :D
Disobeys every person trying to ask him to do something. Works for his opponent.
Idk why but I despise this card.
Its written "when you summon a minion" but cards like Leeroy Jenkins ("Summon two 1/1 whelps for your opponent") also trigger this card. So it should be "when a minion is summon on your side" instead.
Imagine summoning Leeroy Jenkins only for it to die with RNG from the two summoned whelps... 5 mana, give your opponent two 1/1 whelps. Lol.
In fact, I think I've seen leeroy jenkins killed with the knifes it summoned for the enemy before attacking
Top 2 tavern brawl- this guy and bilefin tidehunter as warlock
The fact that he will trigger when summoning my totems makes him the leader in my inspire shaman deck
Well, good nerf. NOw it can still have some potential (however mostly in wild), but is NOT insta-include in every aggro/midrange decks.
Exactly as i posted: Knife Juggler got nerfed to a 2/2. The effect is still very very strong, but the card definitively doesn't deserve vanilla-stats. And no, all that say that the stats are not important are SO VERY WRONG. A 3/2 is a completely different league as a 2/2. Northshire Cleric doesn't die on him automatically, it cannot trade with 2/3 anymore like Zombie chow, heck, many 3 drops that weren't save before because they were at 3 health are viable again. So this card now competetes with other 2 drops rather than with 3 and even some 4 drops.
The effect is ok, and still very strong, but with the reduced stat point this is quite ok. With this change you cannot put it out simply against a Zombie Chow since it stays alive. This is a huge change. If a control-deck loses a chow or have it still with 2/1 stats is a different ballpark and exactly this first rounds decide if an aggro-deck have a chance or not.
Sorry, all aggro players but this nerf is ok imo.
It was very expected also.
Stupid nerf. The problem was never the stats, the effect is fucking broken. Now i'm certain that i'll never ever play wild.
And to think this'll never leave standard makes me sick. If i see knife juggler based aggro decks ruling the game again, i'm quitting for real.
I like the 2-2 body, its a simple and easy nerf, but it exactly what you want a card to be to be balanced. Much much much better than previous blizzard nerfs where they just killed the card. I think this time they overdid it to a lot of other cards as well. Nerfs should never be extreme
I'm pretty sure the Juggler is still laughing in our faces as he continues to put apples on all our heads.
(...which is actually a pretty funny visual lol )
Blizzard making a nerf that isn't complete overkill and doesn't destroy the card? What's going on here?
I spent all my dust to craft force of nature. Next day it gets nerfed. Bye dreams of legend
This is one of the most fair nerfs I've ever seen blizzard apply to a card. When I heard knife juggler was being looked at for a nerf I was really worried that they might change the card text but I'm extremely glad to see that they only knocked 1 attack off and left the text alone. While minor this definitely will impact how appealing it is to use but I am sure that it will still fit well in decks that easily flood the board
ya, perfect on this one imo
2/3 minions are a free trade for knife juggler now and that is a huge deal.
Do you know how big it is for a hunter to play a Turn 1 minion with 2/1 stats while at the same time playing an Arcane Shot and forcing an opponent to spend a 2 mana ping hero power? It's hugeee, that's how you snowball games and SMOrc SMOrc SMOrc
you play gnome for its damage to mana cost. 4 damage for 1 mana is insane its stats are completely relevant