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| Set: |  Hero Skins |
|---|---|
| Type: | Hero |
| Class: |  Hunter |
| Rarity: | Free |
| Health: | 30  |
| Abilities: | Take control |
| Wiki tags: | Random |
Sylvanas Windrunner is a legendary neutral minion card, from the Classic set. Her Deathrattle allows the player to take control of a random enemy minion.
How to get
Sylvanas Windrunner can be obtained through Classic card packs, through crafting, or as an Arena reward. Regular Sylvanas Windrunner can also be obtained as a first-time reward for first time reaching Legend in Ranked mode.
| Card | Crafting cost | Disenchanting |
|---|---|---|
| Sylvanas Windrunner | 1600 | 400 |
| Golden Sylvanas Windrunner | 3200 | 1600 |
Strategy
Sylvanas Windrunner is a card that can easily change a game, quickly. With her Deathrattle it is very easy to make yourself very powerful and crush your opponent with their few remaining forces after Sylvanas Windrunner is dead. Furthermore, it may force your opponent to play around Sylvanas, in fear that one of their powerful minions may be taken from them. But beware, she can be useless if you are in a bad situation, as she will be targeted as soon as possible and you will probably get nothing of value for 6 mana. Without a minion to steal, she is a mere 5/5 for 6 mana.
Destroying a Sylvanas of your own is sometimes a strategy to consider. For example, if your opponent only has one powerful minion on the board and you play Sylvanas followed by 
Power Overwhelming on her, this is effectively a seven-mana, two-card Mind Control. This is of course usually most desirable when the opponent possesses a single highly powerful minion which the player is otherwise unable to counter. Shamans are also able to utilise her deathrattle effectively with use of cards like Ancestral Spirit and 
Reincarnate. Another strategy involves destroying her with Shadowflame to clear any weaker minions and take control of one larger than 5 Health (or with Divine Shield), although this minion will still suffer the damage from the Shadowflame.
A less extreme (and more card efficient) alternative is to run Sylvanas into a target with the express intention of destroying her. This play usually sacrifices Sylvanas' long-term trading efficiency in exchange for immediate control of a valuable minion. It may provide the additional benefit of dealing damage to an enemy minion, but in many cases that is also the minion that will be stolen, making this more of a drawback. The ideal implementation of this strategy is to use Sylvanas to trade with a valuable enemy minion, before allowing her Deathrattle to gain control of another, hopefully even more valuable minion. In some cases, such as if playing against a lone Ragnaros the Firelord, it is necessary to directly trade Sylvanas for control of the enemy minion, even if that means damaging it in the process. In this case, Sylvanas can be traded for an 8/3 damaged Ragnaros.
Quotes
- Summon
- I have no time for games.
- Attack
- Let none survive!
Lore
This section uses content from Wowpedia.- Lady Sylvanas Windrunner, styled variously as "the Dark Lady" and "the Banshee Queen", is the supreme ruler of the Forsaken, one of the most powerful factions of undead on Azeroth. In life, Sylvanas was the ranger-general of Silvermoon, whose leadership acumen and martial prowess were without equal. During the Third War, she bravely defended Quel'Thalas from a Scourge invasion led by the death knight Arthas Menethil. Ultimately, however, Sylvanas fell in battle. Rather than honor the ranger-general with a quick death, Arthas ripped out her soul and transformed it into a banshee: a cunning and vengeful agent of the Lich King empowered by hate.
- When the Lich King’s control over his minions weakened, Sylvanas broke away from her tyrannical master's control and reclaimed her body. Vowing to avenge her death, Sylvanas gathered other renegade undead and set out to wage war against the Scourge. Thus it was that the Forsaken came to be, with Sylvanas as their queen. Under Sylvanas' command, the Forsaken joined the Horde and later helped bring about the Lich King's fall in the frozen wastes of Northrend.
- Yet many challenges still lay ahead for Sylvanas. After an uprising within her ranks that killed other members of the Horde, the banshee queen is now mistrusted by many of her allies. While Sylvanas maintains that her loyalty to the Horde is undiminished, some of the faction's members are uncertain about her true intentions.
Artist
Patch changes
Patch 2.4.0.8311 (2015-03-31): Bug fix: "will no longer steal a minion that is about to die, which is weird because that’s generally her thing".- Patch 1.0.0.4458 (Closed beta, 2014-1-16): Now costs 6 (up from 5).
- Unknown alpha patch (April or May 2013): New text: Deathrattle: Take control of a random enemy minion.
- Previously: Battlecry: Discard your hand. Draw five 3/3 skeletons. [5 mana, 5 attack, 5 health, legendary][1][2]
Gallery
  Sylvanas Windrunner, full art |
  Sylvanas Windrunner in World of Warcraft |
References
- ↑ Ben Brode on Twitter. (2014-09-26).
- ↑ http://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=Sylvannas+Windrunner×tamp=20130329003910 (viewable by admins only)