Don't disenchant your copies - you won't get bonus dust.
Absent in today's patch notes was a note on the nerf of Magister's Apprentice. It isn't unusual to see things in the client that were missed in the patch notes, but this time around this wasn't a missed detail but rather a bug!
DeckTech confirmed on Twitter today that the nerf is "one of the sillier bugs" and that the team would be looking into it.
Quote From DeckTech One of the sillier bugs we've had in a bit, the team's looking into it.
Datamined Changes to Magister's Apprentice
In the game client, which is all we can comment on, there are a few changes that happened to this card.
- The ATK value changed to 2 (was 3).
- The HEALTH value changed to 3 (was 2).
- The BATTLECRY tag was added and set to True, which is unusual since the text isn't on it.
- The AURA tag was removed.
We can confirm through experimentation that this has not functionally changed the card, it still works as an aura effect due to server-side logic. However, when you mouseover this card during a game, you'll see the Battlecry tooltip since this is generated client-side based on client data.
Someone pressed some wrong buttons!
Comments
I can only speculate that they are making a similar card that reduces the cost of Arcane Cards by 1 mana, and simply copied the code of this card, but because of all the spaghetti code, it reflected on this card as well lol
Yeah, that wouldn't be the first time they've done something like this. I remember there was a time they straight up leaked a bunch of old cards that had never existed in the public eye, only to be removed a patch later. I should dig those up again because it would make for an interesting article.