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"Dust Needed For Remaining Cards: 5620"

im pretty sure disenchanting my entire collection only gives me half of the amount required

Aw man, sorry then^^.. keep him and wait for maybe after the rotation... i wouldnt dust him. he might be useful someday... or never *cries* but after all thats just my opinion, if you need the dust .. dust him but i'd rather not! good luck :)

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Why? He is not a bad card. Yes, his stats are not good for 8 mana, but the he can save you the game.

It's used a lot more than King Krush and more than Cenarius. And I do believe it is better than Velen in the current meta (I could be wrong, but I don't see Velen used at all recently).

He is getting elemental tag just within few weeks. Hold on until now if you havent DE-ed it yet to see what's the deal with it and with the meta generally. Elemental shaman could easily be the new top meta deck.

I totally disagree Al'Akir was my first legendary. I had never crafted cards, but I got him and crafted the cards for a midrange deck. It's been pretty great to me ever since. Ragneros may be better, but I doubt I would have thought to put rag in a shaman deck at the time. Also now that rag is rotating to wild alakir may become boss in shaman decks. Especially with the new elemental tribe. This is a long winded way of saying you are categorically wrong sir.

If only this card fall to the hand of Warlock....

+ 2x  Power Overwhelming = 21 damage

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22

I personally like the card. I keep both him and Rag in my midrange deck atm. Even if he doesn't get great use, he can usually bait out a strong removal to pave the way for The Firelord himself.

we should have been refunded full dust for windbro when rockbiter was nerfed. Hopefully shaman will get something to make this guy good again one day

This guy is already good, even with rockbiter nerfed, no idea why most comments are hating on him, he is still solid choice for any midrange shaman (most lists I've seen include him and I find him great in such decks), and is also pretty good in some control shamans.

Hi there. I've decided not to be lazy and write another review. Today we've got Al'Akir the Windlord. This legendary is interesting, as it combines different mechanics, but overall weak as its own, because that mix of cool stuff bear this abomination, that wanted to have all, and turned out to be nothing. Well, not particulary nothing, there re people who use this card and it was spotted in some decks, but in general, not a great one. Let's se why.

First of all, his stats. 3/5 is a weak 4 mana stats. Taunt = 0.5 of mana, divine shield - 1-1.5, charge - 1, windfury - arguably, as we dont have much of those. Lets count as 1.5. SO his nominal value is 4+0.5+1.5+1+1.5 = 8.5. Yeah, pretty similiar to his real cost, but damn, his weak primary stats just make this card worse. 3 attack allows it to be killed with Shadow Word: Pain, Book Wyrm, used with Shadow Madness, and 5(6) health is enough to be killed with ping + Fireball, Shadow Strike, Lava Burst and so on.

Why ould you use Al'Akir the Windlord in your deck? If not mention combos, the first thing that comes in mind is like a 8 mana 2-3 little minion removal. Like, Charge into the highest attack to gain Divine shield value, then into another thing that you can kill with 3 attack, and then remain as a 3/x taunt to try to consume something else. Not spectaular, huh? We can draw our attention to face damage. Yeah, 8 mana 6 damage to face is not impressive either. Yeah, you can combo it with Rockbiter Weapons to deal 12-18 damage(not anymore, nerf restrictd it to 1 RB only, so only 12. Nerfed the a bit underpowered card, heh.) or Flametongue Totem for the same purpose. But wait, dont you think that even Leeroy Jenkins + Windfury + those buffs are more efficient? Yeah, you need one more card for the combo, but it will be 8-9(9-11 now) mana 18-24 damage from no board with no mana discounts.

What is more, you can use Doomhammer, which is by itself 5+2 mana 16 damage to board or face, and can be combined with RBs as well(even after the nerf), to deal 10-16 damage, and not being afraid of removal. Agree that weapon removals are a lot less common than minion ones. And you have 2 of those weapons.

So, how would I imrpove this legendary? There is a bunch of ideas.

1. Give it Overload. It would synergise with current cards of Tunnel Trogg, Unbound Elemental, Lava Shock. Like, 5 mana with 3 overload would be pretty powerful and cool. May be Op, as it allows to use 2x Flametongue  totems + 1(0 after nerf) Rockbiter Weapon to deal 20-22 damage. With 5 cards. Still lame, as for me.
2. Take off his taunt and make it 4/5. 8 mana 8 damage is cool, and buffs make it a lot cooler,
3. Swap his stats. 5/3 ith charge and divine shiled is basically 10 damage to face, to a big minion or a remval of 2 medium creatures. Very cool, in my opinion.
4. Take off Taunt OR windfury and give it spell immunity as for Faerie Dragon. THis would not make this card so fragile.

So, to tie things together, i would not recommend you to craft it. Especially after the nerf. IF you want to try combos with charge and windfury, you better use Leeroy Jenkins. And he also can be used in other decks for different classes. IF you got him from a pack or bundle - it's up to you wether to keep him. I would, because i want to complete the expert set, so he would be just a dead, but new card here. For same reasons i have King Krush, Gruul and Prophet Velen. IF you plan to collect as many cards as youcan, remain him. If you need dust - well, i dont think that legendary will be in great demand, but noone knows which ticks new expansions bring to us. At least wait till november/december, when the new Expansion comes out. Then you can dust him, if dust is needed.

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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 |

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DAMN IT, SOMEONE SLAP AL-AKIR TELL THIS NOOB TO STOP BEING THE SHITTIEST CLASS LEGENDARY IN THE CLASSIC SET. THE ONLY WIND HE'S LORD OF IS THE FART DAMAGE HE DEALS. YOUR BESTIE, ROCKBITER, GOT SLAMMED WITH THE DOOMHAMMER, WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO NOW, FARTLORD?

It was fun while it lasted, old friend.

I hope Ragnaros takes me back.

This is disgustingly OP, Time to put Malcezaar in a shaman deck!

My first legendary :D

Good card but a bit overcosted, I think it would see a ton more play if it costed 7 instead, Not like Shaman needs a buff right now but i'm very sure they will once priest gets their 3 mana 8/8 and Trogg rotates out.

One of the most fun cards in the entire game