April 2016 Card Nerf
It was announced on April 20th, 2016 that Leper Gnome would receive a nerf.
- Attack reduced to 1, down from 2.
Quote from BlizzardLeper Gnome is powerful for its cost, finds its way into almost every aggressive deck, and requires no further deck building decisions to be effective. We’d like other 1 mana minions to be more compelling, so we’re reducing its Attack from 2 to 1.
nice face
Looks like guys at Hearthpwn know smth. All the cards with changed art might be changed by Blizz. Conspiracy!
Haha!
A 1 mana fireball? Sign me the fuck up.
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R.I.P. little gnome. You won't be missed!
This card would be fine if 1/1
I honestly think this card is a little overpowered. This card usually ends up dealing a minimum of 4 damage for 1 mana if played on turn 1, which is ridiculous value for an aggro deck. It's not even that bad in the late-game, since it's guaranteed to do 2 damage even if your opponent has enough of a board to kill it (unless they waste a silence on it). I've had perfect 1-2-3 curve openings against face hunter and still been at around half health by turn 4 and eventually lost because of this card and other mana-efficient high-damage cards like Mad Scientist and Knife Juggler were played before I had an answer. It really bothers me that this card and other aggro cards like Abusive Sergeant and Knife Juggler are ridiculously mana-efficient and have no downside at all, while late-game control minions and defensive cards simply aren't good enough to justify their cost. The mana system and trading mechanics of Hearthstone (i.e. attackers have complete control over what minion attacks what) already favor aggressive and tempo-oriented strategies over defensive control strategies, and aggro having access to such high-value low-cost cards with no drawback doesn't help the imbalance of power.
So annoying to verse hunters when they play this. No I don't want to give you a hug.
Best aggro card in the game
The text should read: 'Battlecry: lose all self-respect"
You smell lika leper gnome!
~Evil Heckler
The NEW face of SMOrc!
nowai, SMOrc is an abbreviation of Space Marine Ork which is where the SMOrc icon originated from
can't make a new one yo
Huh. Interesting. Never knew that.
lol why?
my favorite 1 drop :D
Worst piece of cancer in this game...
I'm gonna hug my Leppy
me too, his eyes seem to glow