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It is a part of limited content and does not appear in any other game modes.
The subject of this article is only available in Solo Adventures.
You might be looking for one of these cards: Battlegrounds/Sylvanas Windrunner, Battlegrounds/Sylvanas Windrunner (unused), Mercenaries/Sylvanas Windrunner, Mercenaries/Sylvanas Windrunner (63748), Mercenaries/Sylvanas Windrunner (64498), Sylvanas Windrunner, Sylvanas Windrunner (Classic), Sylvanas Windrunner (Druid boss), Sylvanas Windrunner (Event), Sylvanas Windrunner (hero), Sylvanas Windrunner (Prologue boss).
For other appearances of Sylvanas Windrunner, see Sylvanas Windrunner (disambiguation).

Sylvanas Windrunner is a boss in Priest's Book of Heroes adventure.

Hero Powers[]

Sylvanas Windrunner Varok Saurfang
Equip Windrunner's Bow
Bold Determination
Equipped weapons
Windrunner's Bow

Player's hero[]

Anduin
Equip Shalamayne
Equipped weapons

Special cards[]

Sylvanas Windrunner

Hero Power
Windrunner's Bow
Skeleton
Skeletal Enforcer
Deck
Undercity Huckster
Val'kyr Shadowguard
Baine Bloodhoof
Marked Shot
Lor'themar Theron
Special events
Horde War Machine
Blight Cauldron
Windseeker Durja
Nathanos Blightcaller

Varok Saurfang

Horde Armorsmith
Terrifying Roar
Blackrock Raider

Player

Genn Greymane
Jaina Proudmoore
Gelbin Mekkatorque
Alleria Windrunner
Faith's Defender
Emboldener 3000
Repair Bot
Squire
Alliance Commander
Alliance Siege Tower
Apotheosis
Mass Resurrection

Decks[]

The below classes are listed purely for reference, and have no effect on the boss' use of the cards during the battle.

Sylvanas Windrunner Varok Saurfang Anduin Wrynn
Class Card Quantity Class Card Quantity Class Card Quantity
Boss Undercity Huckster 2 Boss Madness at the Darkmoon FaireHorde Armorsmith 2 Boss Madness at the Darkmoon FaireFaith's Defender 3
Knights of the Frozen ThroneVal'kyr Shadowguard 2 Terrifying Roar 2 Genn Greymane 1
Baine Bloodhoof 1 Madness at the Darkmoon FaireBlackrock Raider 2 Madness at the Darkmoon FaireAlliance Commander 5
Marked Shot 2 Warrior LegacyWhirlwind 2 Apotheosis 4
DH, Hunter Scholomance AcademyBlood Herald 2 LegacyCleave 2 Mass Resurrection 2
Hunter LegacyDeadly Shot 2 LegacyCruel Taskmaster 2 Priest Journey to Un'GoroBinding Heal 2
LegacyExplosive Shot 2 Charge 2 The Grand TournamentFlash Heal 2
Rise of ShadowsUnleash the Beast 2 Madness at the Darkmoon FaireFeat of Strength 2 LegacyHoly Smite 3
Kobolds & CatacombsCrushing Walls 2 LegacyFrothing Berserker 2 LegacyPower Word: Shield 2
Priest The WitchwoodCoffin Crasher 2 LegacyMortal Strike 2 LegacyHoly Nova 4
Rogue The Grand TournamentUndercity Valiant 2 LegacyArcanite Reaper 2 LegacyHoly Fire 2
LegacyPlaguebringer 2 LegacyBrawl 2
Warrior The Grand TournamentOrgrimmar Aspirant 2 Saviors of UldumArmored Goon 2
Neutral LegacyBloodmage Thalnos 1 Neutral LegacyFrostwolf Grunt 2
Rastakhan's RumbleAmani War Bear 2 Madness at the Darkmoon FaireStrongman 1
Rastakhan's RumbleLinecracker 2 Rise of ShadowsBatterhead 1

Notes[]

  • This is a three-stage battle. At first stage the player has to destroy Sylvanas' four special minions. At the second stage to fight with Varok Saurfang, and at the third stage to kill Sylvanas.
  • When the stage is changed both bosses get a full decks and a copies of random cards of these decks in the amount equal to the number of cards in hand at the previous stage.
  • Sylvanas Windrunner starts with Madness at the Darkmoon FaireHorde War Machine on the board.
  • Sylvanas Windrunner is Immune at the first stage.
  • Forged in the BarrensWindrunner's Bow summons Skeleton and Knights of the Frozen ThroneSkeletal Enforcer at stages 1 and 3 respectively.
  • The player always gets LegacyHoly Smite, The Grand TournamentFlash Heal, Genn Greymane on mulligan.
    • These cards can be replaced with Apotheosis, Journey to Un'GoroBinding Heal, LegacyHoly Fire. The replacement takes place from left to right (i.e., if the player replaced one card, they will receive Apotheosis regardless of whether Holy Smite or Genn Greymane was replaced).
  • The player always draws the cards in next order at first four turns:
  • The player always draws special minions after the boss minions are destroyed:
  • Sylvanas Windrunner always draws March of the Lich KingLor'themar Theron after Madness at the Darkmoon FaireNathanos Blightcaller is spawned.
  • Kobolds & CatacombsCrushing Walls is always the first card drawn by Sylvanas Windrunner at the start ot stage 3.

Strategy[]

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Dialogue[]

Before match

Anduin Wrynn (present)
I recovered under my father's care. In time, Garrosh was made to atone for his crimes.
Then the unthinkable happened… my father fell in battle. I learned to rule in his stead as I grieved for him.
And all the while, a darkness festered within the Horde... an evil beyond redemption... Sylvanas Windrunner. I would need everything I had learned to confront her.

Stage 1: Sylvanas Windrunner

Introduction

Anduin Wrynn
It is over, Sylvanas!
Sylvanas Windrunner
You have no idea what you're up against. We've only just begun!

Emote Response

Sylvanas Windrunner
Enough meddling!

Hero Power

Sylvanas Windrunner
Abandon hope.
Destroy them!
Suffer well.

Idle

Sylvanas Windrunner
All of your most loyal friends are here with you. A pity if you lost some...
How much will you sacrifice today, boy king?
Your whole life devoted to peace, and one little tree brings you to battle.

Turn 1

Genn Greymane
I've never seen anything like that war machine...
Anduin Wrynn
Bring it down!

Player's cards

Attacking with Shalamayne
Anduin Wrynn
For the Alliance!
How's this?
Injustice will not stand.
Alleria Windrunner
Sylvanas Windrunner
Greetings, sister.

Madness at the Darkmoon FaireHorde War Machine is destroyed

Sylvanas Windrunner
Let the Blight rain upon our enemies!
Madness at the Darkmoon FaireBlight Cauldron appears on the enemy board
Varok Saurfang
There must be another way...
Sylvanas Windrunner
SILENCE!

Blight Cauldron at 20 HP

Genn Greymane
My king... we cannot endure.
Jaina Proudmoore
The Horde will pay for its crimes!
Jaina deals 99 damage to all enemy minions
Sylvanas Windrunner
Darkspear, to arms!
Madness at the Darkmoon FaireWindseeker Durja appears on the enemy board and two Spellzerkers on either side of it

Windseeker Durja is destroyed

Madness at the Darkmoon FaireNathanos Blightcaller appears on the enemy board and two Abominations on either side of it
Nathanos Blightcaller
Your time is up, King Anduin!
Anduin Wrynn
Alliance, hold your ground!

Nathanos Blightcaller is detroyed

Sylvanas Windrunner
Cover our retreat, High Overlord.
Sylvanas Windrunner is replaced by a new boss - Varok Saurfang

Stage 2: Varok Saurfang

Turn 1

Anduin Wrynn
This isn't your war, Saurfang...
Varok Saurfang
MY LIFE FOR THE HORDE!

Emote Response

Varok Saurfang
Diplomacy has never been my strong suit.

Hero Power

Varok Saurfang
Glory to the Blackrock clan!
I am war itself.
Lok'tar ogar!

Idle

Varok Saurfang
Even I do not know how far our Warchief will go in this war.
I have only lost one battle. And I mean to keep it that way.
There is nothing without honor. I must never forget that.

Stage 3: Sylvanas Windrunner

Varok Saurfang is defeated

Anduin Wrynn
There is no honor in killing him. Take him away.
Varok Saurfang is replaced by Sylvanas Windrunner
Sylvanas Windrunner
You wield your father's sword. Are you trying to make him proud?
Anduin Wrynn
You don't deserve to speak his name.

Sylvanas Windrunner at 20 HP

Sylvanas Windrunner
You claim you fight for peace... but we are both of us forged by war.
Anduin Wrynn
I was forged. You were cursed.

Death

Sylvanas Windrunner
You've won... nothing.
Anduin Wrynn (present)
We defeated Sylvanas and weakened the Horde, though our victory came at great cost.
In my heart, I knew that I'd found my warrior's spirit, despite my pledge to peace.
When I was young, my father always saved me. And nothing has changed.

Defeat

Sylvanas Windrunner
Do not fret... You won't be dead for long...

Lore[]

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Lady Sylvanas Windrunner, styled variously as "the Dark Lady" and "the Banshee Queen," is the former Warchief of the Horde and the former 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 Knights of the Frozen ThroneThe 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.
After the fall of the Lich King, Sylvanas came to the shocking realization that she, like Arthas before her, was damned to an eternity of darkness and torture in the afterlife. After entering into a pact with the Val'kyr, Sylvanas was able to regain her place in the realm of the living for as long as her Val'kyr survive. Knowing the dark fate that will inevitably befall her, Sylvanas considers her people a bulwark against the horrifying darkness that awaits her in the end. Following this, Sylvanas has launched an aggressive attack into the regions of Lordaeron and the greater Eastern Kingdoms not directly under her control, in an attempt to conquer the continent and secure it for the Forsaken.
After being mortally wounded during the battle for the Broken Shore, Warchief Goblins vs GnomesVol'jin declared Sylvanas as his successor with his dying breath, leaving her to lead the Horde against the invading forces of the Burning Legion. Following the Legion's defeat, Sylvanas now leads the Horde against the Alliance in a war that spans all of Azeroth.
After being challenged to mak'gora by defector Madness at the Darkmoon FaireVarok Saurfang, Sylvanas managed to overcome him in combat, but in the process revealed to the rest of her Horde loyalists that they truly meant nothing to her. Ultimately, Sylvanas fled from Orgrimmar and abandoned the Horde to pursue her own agenda alongside those still loyal to her cause.

Gallery[]

Sylvanas Windrunner (Priest boss) full

Sylvanas Windrunner, full art

Patch changes[]

  • Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Mini-set logoPatch 19.4.0.71003 (2021-01-21): Added.
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