I feel like this is too strong in a vacuum. I mean if this were the only samurai/warrior in your deck, it still chunks in limited. 2 damage picks off a lot of blockers.

In order to put a stop to this, you would need a 2/3 at minimum. And then that only stops this creature from attacking. If you have a disposable 1/1 warrior, it can now safely attack into that 3 powered creature.

Idk. Perhaps limited has power crept up to this point.

I don't think so. This is by itself a really daunting attacker. Even if the opponent has a 2/3 to block this, this might very well snipe another creature on that attack. The jump from 1 damage to 2 damage makes a lot of difference over e. g. Raging Regisaur, too.