Last year the course was supposedly restored to the original Ross design. I have not played it since then, but reports are that the green complexes and bunkering are more interesting than before, and the course is much improved. I thought it was a fairly sporty and fun course before (though short), especially the front nine. There is particularly nice contouring on some of the greens. I hope you enjoy it.
MBC was founded in the late 20's when a number of members of the Country Club of Birmingham objected to CCB's building of a Tudor-style clubhouse. MBC figures in a Joan Didion novel (I think A Book of Common Prayer), as well as Diane McWhorter's Pulitizer Prize winning book on the civil rights era in Birmingham, Carry Me Home. It is one of four Alabama courses originally built by Ross (both of CCB's courses, and the Country Club of Mobile), and I think the only one that professes to be close to what it was originally.
Get someone to take you for Sunday brunch there; excellent Old South cuisine.