April 2016 Card Nerf
It was announced on April 20th, 2016 that Master of Disguise would receive a nerf.
- Now only gives a minion Stealth until your next turn.
Quote from BlizzardThe ability of Master of Disguise to grant permanent Stealth has been a design obstacle for a long time, so we are changing Master of Disguise to only grant Stealth until the next turn. This change opens up exciting options for future cards.
I feel like nobody read why they changed the card, it was a design obstacle which in at least one form means it prevented them from designing certain cards because this card would make the cards unplayable or broken, similar to how they had to change warsong commander, for all we know there are some potential cards they have ready to design or release but couldn't due to things like this.
It's not a "Card nobody played, why nerf?" it's for future planning.
Exactly. She (or he, actually) would've been nuts in tandem with Scaled Nightmare, for example.
nerf a card nobody ever plays.. free dust, thx blizzard!
I agree but they could buff stats a little.
since when a 4 mana 4/5 with a technically positive effect is bad?
Could haave at least lowered cost and stats to make it a combo card..oh well, free dust
with the cards we had until now, yeah, it was useless
they nerfed it because with the cards of old gods permanent stealth would be OP
Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound Twilight Elder Scaled Nightmare are great examples
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do not see he reason for this nerf plz tell me . TY
as mentioned in the article about why they nerfed those cards (right under the card) you can see that it limits design space A LOT. (good example, see animated armor + MoD)
ty sorry did not see the reason just read most of that mb m8
didnt nerf that booty ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Let's assume this card DOES get changed (as word is spreading more and more about that possibly being the case), what would a good change to it be?
I'm not sure how OP this would be, but what if MoD read "Battlecry: Add a Fadeleaf Toxin to your hand."? Would that be too much? I feel as if this has a benefit and draw back. It doesn't let you combo it right away, but allows you to set up for the next turn possibly.
I would love this option personally, but while I see that as a good change, I am not sure if it would be too much of a boost to her. Otherwise, I'm not entirely sure how they can adjust her without ruining her into the ground. I mean, I suppose they COULD just increase her mana cost by 1, but still.
True. Probably changing her text to be "Give a friendly minion stealth till your next turn" would probably be more in line for all the new items we are seeing.
You already can't put permanent stealth on Ragnaros.
i like golden animation
I think the reason that this card isn't used is the lack of low cost minions with outstanding passive effects. I dabbled a bit with using her on Mimiron's Head a looong time ago. But even then I just switched to Conceal. And Iron Sensei doesn't count completely as he needs to be played when you have a mech on the board.
Playing this with Brann Bronzebeard has good potential though. And even Questing Adventurer, if there were enough higher health bodies with outstanding passive effects to warrant including this card. Though Piloted Shredder still <3 4 health.