traderfjp wrote:
Well. I guess I was hoping that the consensus is that mastic is easy
to get off cement board and that the tile would come right off. I
guess I'll try prying off a few tiles and see what I'm in store for.


traderfjp,

It's may be worth a try. Of course you'll need to follow the tile
removal with scraping the majority of the mastic off the board to
provide a good bondable surface for the new install.