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- You might be looking for one of these cards: Al'Akir the Windlord (Classic), Al'Akir the Windlord (Core).
Al'Akir the Windlord is a legendary shaman minion card, from the Legacy set.
Other versions
How to get
Type | Source | Quality | Count |
---|---|---|---|
Card packs | Open one of these card packs: | Regular Golden | 1 (random) |
Crafting | Craft a Regular copy for 1600 | Regular | 1 |
Crafting | Craft a Golden copy for 3200 | Golden | 1 |
Related with
Sounds
- Play
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Winds! Obey my command! - ▶️
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<music stinger>
- Attack
- ▶️
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Like swatting insects!
- Death
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<death sound>
Lore
This section uses content from Wowpedia.
- Al'Akir the Windlord was the Elemental Lord of air. He ruled over his domain of Skywall from his seat at the Throne of the Four Winds. He was once the foremost tactician in the Old Gods' horrific armies. Aligned with the corrupted Dragon Aspect Deathwing and his fellow Elemental Lord Ragnaros the Firelord in their efforts to usher in the end of days, Al'Akir was defeated by the mortal champions of Azeroth, who were able to enter Skywall from the breach in Uldum and destroy the Windlord within his own sanctum.
Trivia
- However, when the developers examined the alpha's backend stats, Al'Akir was found to in fact have the highest win rate of any legendary in the game at that time. The developers therefore realised that the card was simply under-appreciated, and quickly reverted the planned changes to the card, avoiding making "a pretty terrible mistake".[1] This was the first time the developers used "hard data" to inform balance changes.[2]
Gallery
Patch changes
- Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):
- Patch 10.0.0.22611 (2017-12-06):
- Keywords rearranged in alphabetical order.
- Patch 8.0.0.18336 (2017-04-04):
- Minion type is now Elemental (previously: no minion type).
- Patch 1.0.0.4217 (Closed beta, 2013-12-10):
- Visual effect: Al'Akir the Windlord now rides into battle on the tempest itself!
- Patch 1.0.0.3140 (Alpha, April or May 2013):
- Added.
External links
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ChanManV (2014-04-24). Value Town #27 w/ ChanManV, Trump, Gnimsh, and Ben Brode Pt. 2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ben Brode on Twitter. (2015-06-01).