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Abusive Sergeant is receiving a nerf!

You can find more information on the upcoming 6.1.3 Patch Nerfs by visiting the news post.

Aggressive decks are stronger than we would like right now, and Abusive Sergeant is in virtually all of them. We like that Abusive Sergeant is available to players using minion heavy strategies, but neutral cards in the base set should be narrow enough that they aren’t showing up in such a wide variety of circumstances. We’re changing Abusive Sergeant to be a 1/1 so the battlecry becomes the clear focus, rather than the card being a reasonable turn one option for all aggressive deck types.

I like it, and will probably continue to use it.

Should have been +1 attack and 1/1.  This is still going to see a lot of play

Rating: 5/5. Love this change, Abusive Sergant was always too strong for it's effect. The card is still playable with this change, but no longer an option on turn 1 for it's body itself.

Who did they hire for the balance team that actually can balance cards without completely destroying them? Give this man a medal!

They want to nerf the card but still have it be viable, not make it completely trash in one change

A step in the right direction, actually nerfing a problem card, problem is: the issue was always its ability to give 2 attack not its stats, just like Knife Juggler.

It will still be used, because you mostly use him for his battlecry.

When a card is too present in winning decks, you don't need to nerf its strongest aspect to balance things. The same decks with the Sergeant will now win slightly less times than before and that's exactly what we need: a reasonable nerf (not a huge massive nerf that would have made the card unplayable).

+1 for this nerf!

Yes, Blizzard this is how you nerf cards. Glad you push faggro a little bit more down the ladder.

Although you should've made it give a minion +1 attack imo.

as a 1/1 it's probably gonna see less play but still a card that s going to be used frequently.

Quote from Belzzzz >>

The problem was the value of the "+2 attack", not the stats. Missed shot. But maybe enough for see it go away.

Quote from Nicholasjh >>

Quote from Belzzzz >>

The problem was the value of the "+2 attack", not the stats. Missed shot. But maybe enough for see it go away.

 Maybe, but at least it can't make another card trade up AND trade into a 2 drop.

 

Very good change it's actually balanced now it was like old Leper Gnome but Abuse Sergeants effect is more versatile so i don't think this nerf will completely kill the card like what we saw with Leper Gnome it will still see play. This is the very first time Hearthstone team has done a good job balancing, making changes without killing cards.

Brings it in line with Leper Gnome. Still mostly playable, but not auto-include in every single aggro list now. I predict this will still see some use in Zoo and Totem decks which almost always have a big board of minions to trade away. Good change.

Sergeant definitely needed a nerf, but this is arguably the wrong one.

The right nerf was on the bonus given.

With 1/1 +2 it will stay staple in any aggressive deck.

Nice work. Unlike the Leper Gnome nerf, this one leaves the card in playable condition.

Lol all of those who hate this nerf must be zoo deck users. 

Quote from RavenSunHP >>

Sergeant definitely needed a nerf, but this is arguably the wrong one.

The right nerf was on the bonus given.

With 1/1 +2 it will stay staple in any aggressive deck.

Quote from RavenSunHP >>

Sergeant definitely needed a nerf, but this is arguably the wrong one.

The right nerf was on the bonus given.

With 1/1 +2 it will stay staple in any aggressive deck.