Alexstrasza
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Battlecry: Set a hero's remaining Health to 15.
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Alexstrasza the Life-Binder brings life and hope to everyone. Except Deathwing. And Malygos. And Nekros.
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Battlecry: Set a hero's remaining Health to 15.
Alexstrasza the Life-Binder brings life and hope to everyone. Except Deathwing. And Malygos. And Nekros.
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Battlecry: Fuck priest's healing
Greetings. It's time for another review, and today we observe the glorous Dragon Queen, Alexstrasza. To begin with, i would like to say that for me it's a top 1-2 legendary from Expert Set. Her battlecry is one of the most unique in the entire game. I prioritised Alextrasza over Ysera, because this card can just turn the entire game into your favour with coming into play. I use her in most of my control and midrange decks.
First of all, her battlecry used in tandem with some board presnse just leaves the game in winning position. Your opponent had 20+ hp, and then comes the Dragon Quieen, sets his health to 15 and you go full face with all your board. Such scenario usually ends up with 3-10 hp of enemy from 20+ in 1 turn. And there also appears a 8/8 body. This situation is really hard to deal if you have no mass destruction like Twisting Nether, Equality+Consecration, DOOM! and so on .
Another benefir from her is ability to set you own health to 50%. If you fight against midrange or aggro deck, and you are like around 5 health, and your opponent is running out of stream, here comes Alexstrasza
and gives you more time to establish the situation. SOmetimes it doesnt help, but sometimes it just wins you the game.
What is more, She is a dragon. so putting her in dragon decks is a great idea, i may state, Dragon decks usually the high tempo ones, so you will have board in most cases. She does also wee with Drakonid Crusher, because it's hard for your enemy to have 2 removals for 8/8 and 9/9. I use her in my Dragon Paladin deck with Brann Bronzebeard and Dragon Consort, so sometimes she comes into play on turn 7 or even 5(5% chance for Brann to live 1-2 turns to play Consort), and in Prophet Velen Dragonpriest deck. If you want, you can check out both of these decks in my profile, they are rather powerful.
Another thing to mention is that Alexstrasza counters Reno Jackson decks. They fully heal and drop 4/6. You bring them back to 15 life and drop 8/8, which trades perfectly into Reno Jackson. This occures pretty often if you face Reno decks.
Alexstrasza is a win codnition card. Being widely used in Freeze-Mage, some other mage decks, in some OTK(Like my Warrior OTk with Alexstrasza+Charge+weapon hit). Also she often has a role in Tavern Brawls
I would like to say that this card is better than Ysera in most cases, but there are situations that you would better have Ysera over her, like your opponent is around 8-10 hp, and you are at 26, so her battlecry gets your position worse in both targeting options. But it hapens like 10-20% of time.
To get things together, I proudly say that if you dont have Alexstrasza and want to craft a Legendary, but have no idea which one, choosing this card will be a wise solution. Even if you dont have top-tier decks, she can be used in any non-aggro ones to help you to win.
Note: This card can somehow substitute Lord Jaraxxus i nwarlock deck. It's a poor replacement, but optimal if you dont have The Eredar Lord.
UPDATE: Irrelevant now. 15 hp on your face is still too low, 15 on enemy wont do a thing, as it gets healed and Alex gets removed from board. By the time you can play her, both of you are at 15 hp. +-3.
P.S. Sorry, but i have to say that. I've a weird story about that card that is written in this cardpage:
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The Expert Set:
Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight
Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus | Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream
The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:
Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth
Other Sets:
| Kel'Thuzad | Arch-Thief Rafaam |
My forum thread(Link)
Keep up the good work man! Nice to have some decent input on cards in the comments section rather than the usual stuff we get, like the spam on the rag comments section.
Finally people are reviewing cards! I see it a lot in other card games and it is really helpful.
cool card
won tavern brawl -> opened pack -> alexstrasza
<3
I got Golden Alexstrasza & Golden Gorehowl. It made me remember the oldschool retro-otk Warrior deck, so I had a try. Turned out to be pretty fun and efficient.
Golden finisher of the game. That wasnt Ranked because i wanted to at least try the deck and tweak it(I prefer playing my own decks.)
Why will a shaman have these stuff...
It was a deathrattle shaman
Alestraza? Alextraza? Alexstraza? Alexstrasza?
I absolutely adore my dragon lady!
She is a heal or deal! And getting lethal with her is fun in my dragon priest deck XD
Why have I not crafted her beautiful golden art yet? I will add that to my list as my next golden craft!
Gotta love the golden animation
Opened a golden the other day. Someone congratulated me and I wound up just spamming random letters because I couldn't believe it. I then said "MY EYES ARE NOT WORTHY" and went offline. I highly doubt I'll ever see that person online again.
Alexstrasza is a great late game card. One of my favorites. Hope that she will not get hit with the nurf bat.
There's strong rumors she will be nerfed since she won't rotate out and she's OP in freeze mage and some Warrior decks. She also restricts future design space.
Easily my favorite Legendary, I miss the days when she destroyed armor too.
Just opened a pack with this AND Antonidas. Thank you Tavern Brawl pack.
Classic pack.
A must have for the current meta to counter the recent rise of Reno Jackson