Alexstrasza

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## Alexstrasza

* Regular
* Golden

Artist: Raymond Swanland

Artist: Raymond Swanland

Collectible • Elite

**Battlecry:** Set a hero's remaining Health to 15.

## Availability

### Formats

Wild
Duels

## Flavor

*Alexstrasza the Life-Binder brings life and hope to everyone. Except Deathwing. And Malygos. And Nekros.*

### Card id:

`EX1_561`

*You might be looking for one of these cards: Alexstrasza (Book of Heroes), Alexstrasza (Classic), Alexstrasza (dormant), Battlegrounds/Alexstrasza, Mercenaries/Alexstrasza, Mercenaries/Alexstrasza (64589), Mercenaries/Alexstrasza (64591).***Alexstrasza** is a legendary neutral minion card, from the Legacy set.

## Notes

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Alexstrasza's Battlecry:

* Directly alters the target hero's Health. As such it does not count as either a healing effect or damaging effect, and so does not synergise with effects such as Eye for an Eye or Auchenai Soulpriest.
* Bypasses any Armor. Any Armor possessed by the target hero will remain unaffected.
* If the Battlecry increases the hero's Health beyond its current maximum, it will set the hero's new maximum Health to 15. This means that is can be used on the Ragnaros hero summoned by Majordomo Executus to increase its maximum Health from 8 to 15.
* Immune and Stealthed heroes cannot be targeted by an opponent's Alexstrasza's Battlecry.

## Sounds

Play
* ▶️ `VO_EX1_561_Play_01.wav` I bring life and hope.
* ▶️ `Pegasus_Stinger_Dragon_Good.wav` *<music stinger>*

Attack
* ▶️ `VO_EX1_561_Attack_02.wav` I will mourn your death.

Death
* ▶️ `VO_EX1_561_Death_03.wav` <death sound>

## Lore

*This section uses content from Wowpedia.*
*Alexstrasza the Life-Binder, Leader and Aspect of the red dragonflight One of the five Dragon Aspects and Aspect of Life, is the guardian of all life in the world of Azeroth. She was one of five great dragons chosen by the titans to be empowered with a portion of the Pantheon's power and rule over her flight while they watched over Azeroth and its inhabitants. The titans also appointed her queen of all dragons. Alexstrasza loves all living creatures and protects them, and only those who menace the dragonflights or the world face her wrath.*
*With the rise of Deathwing during* World of Warcraft: Cataclysm*, Alexstrasza took a very active role in defending Azeroth against the Aspect of Death, eventually ordering her entire dragonflight to war against the Black Dragonflight. Alexstrasza, along with her fellow Aspects, gave their all to stop Deathwing once and for all, but lost much of their power in the process.*
*"Life is my Aspect, Dark One, and I, like all mothers, know both the pain and wonders that entails!"*
Alexstrasza reappears in *Descent of Dragons* as Dragonqueen Alexstrasza.

## Trivia

- The artwork for this card comes from the *World of Warcraft Trading Card Game* "Battle of the Aspects Chaos Heroes" series, for the card Alexstrasza the Life-Binder.
- Alexstrasza is very strong against Heroic Mode bosses in the *Curse of Naxxramas* adventure, because Curse of Naxxramas heroic bosses are harder, in part, because they have a large amount of extra Health, which Alexstrasza can ignore with her ability and set them all the way down to 15. Because of this, she has been prohibited in the Heroic Mode fight with Loatheb, Sapphiron and Kel'Thuzad. Likely for the same reason, Heroic bosses in the subsequent *Blackrock Mountain* adventure have extra Armor instead of extra Health, and many of them have cards that grant Armor, such as Flameheart.
	* For some reason, Alexstrasza currently works against similar bosses in the *Galakrond's Awakening* adventure (such as Avalanchan) without being prohibited.

## Gallery

* Alexstrasza, full art
* Alexstrasza in *World of Warcraft*
* Alexstrasza in humanoid form

## Patch changes

* **Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):**
	+ **2021-03-30:** Moved from Classic to Legacy set.
* **Patch 1.0.0.4217 (Closed beta, 2013-12-10):**
	+ Flavor text now reads: "*Alexstrasza the Life-Binder brings life and hope to everyone. Except Deathwing. And Malygos. And Nekros.*" (previously: "*Alexstraza the Life-Binder brings life and hope to everyone. Except Deathwing. And Malygos. And Nekros.*").
	+ Alexstrasza's ability no longer counts as a healing effect when raising the target’s health to 15 and will not affect Armor when lowering health to 15.
* **Patch 1.0.0.3890 (Closed beta, 2013-10-02):**
	+ Flavor text now reads: "*Alexstraza the Life-Binder brings life and hope to everyone. Except Deathwing. And Malygos. And Nekros.*" (previously: "*Alexstrasza was enslaved by the orc Nekros Skullcrusher just before the Second War. When she was freed, she swallowed him whole. Yum!*").
* **Patch 1.0.0.3140 (Alpha, April or May 2013):**
	+ Added.
* **Alpha patch (unknown date, pre-May 2013):**
	+ Name is now Alexstrasza (previously: Alexstraza). (Video source)
## External links

- PlayHearthstone
- HSReplay.net
- Hearthpwn
- OutOf.Cards