Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Fate Reforged PromosPFRF · #90s
- Card type
- Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 1.26 € · ★ 1.53 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Red
Card text
First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay . If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Anastasia Ovchinnikova
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2015-01-23
Flavour text
"Greet death with sword in hand."
Rulings
Alesha's triggered ability checks the card's power only in your graveyard. The creature will still be tapped and attacking if its power is greater than 2 after it's on the battlefield.
Although the returned creature is an attacking creature, it was never declared as an attacking creature. This means that abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks won't trigger when it enters the battlefield attacking.
Any effects that say that the returned creature can't attack (such as that of Propaganda, or if the creature has defender) affect only the declaration of attackers. They won't stop the returned creature from entering the battlefield attacking.
While resolving Alesha's triggered ability, you can't pay the cost multiple times to return more than one creature card.
You choose which player or planeswalker the returned creature is attacking. It doesn't have to be attacking the same player or planeswalker Alesha is attacking.
