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Masked Contender is an epic neutral minion card, from the Rastakhan's Rumble set.

How to get

TypeSourceQualityCount
Card packsOpen one of these card packs:
Rastakhan's Rumble Pack
Wild Pack
Golden Wild
Regular
Golden
1~2 (random)
CraftingCraft a Regular copy for 400 DustRegular1
CraftingCraft a Golden copy for 1600 DustGolden1

Notes

To edit these notes, go to Template:Masked Contender notes.

  • Before 14.0, the card’s text said “play a Secret from your deck”. This phrasing caused some confusion, as the effect did not trigger LegacySecretkeeper's effect nor upgrade Kobolds & CatacombsLesser Emerald Spellstone.


Sounds[]

Play
  • ▶️ VO_TRL_530_Male_Troll_Play_03.wav Tichakka do'jama!
Attack
  • ▶️ VO_TRL_530_Male_Troll_Attack_02.wav Oocha ko!
Death
  • ▶️ VO_TRL_530_Male_Troll_Death_01.wav <death sound>

Lore[]

Masked Contender appears to be a dire troll.

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Dire trolls or berserkers are especially large and powerful trolls.
A small number of trolls are strikingly larger and more heavily muscled than the rest of their brethren, though there is no racial distinction between them and the rest of the troll race. A variety of reasons might be behind this unusual size and musculature. For example, they might have been altered alchemically or magically, or they might also simply have been born larger than average. Regardless of the day-to-day prejudices that these trolls must contend with from other races, dire trolls are not regarded as monstrous by other trolls.

Trivia[]

  • When introduced, Masked Contender's card text differed from other minions with similar effects (like Knights of the Frozen ThroneProfessor Putricide). This was due to Team 5 experimenting with different wording. Masked Contender's text is intended to be similarly clear as to how its Battlecry works while also being shorter and "sounding less games-rulesy".[1] The phrasing was changed with patch 14.0, perhaps because the phrasing caused confusion about how the card interacted with other cards like LegacySecretkeeper.

Gallery[]

Masked Contender full

Masked Contender, full art

Patch changes

  • Rise of Shadows logo Patch 14.0.0.29933 (2019-04-04):
    • Phrasing changed from "...play a Secret from your deck" to "...cast a Secret from your deck". Card behavior did not change.
  • Rastakhan's Rumble logo Patch 13.0.0.27845 (2018-11-29):
    • Added.

References[]

 
  1. Peter Whalen on Twitter. (2018-11-21). 
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