Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
First strike
Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay W/BW/B. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
Combos with Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Medomai the Ageless Blasting Station Spark Double Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Dockside Extortionist Aggravated Assault Blasting Station Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite damage
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
Showing the 2 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2021-03-19
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.
- 2021-03-19
While resolving Alesha's triggered ability, you can't pay the cost multiple times to return more than one creature card.
- 2021-03-19
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.
- 2021-03-19
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.
- 2021-03-19
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jirina Kudro | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mardu 1 deck
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death price history
The Dominaria United Commander #118 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.23 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
10 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.25
- Normal
- $0.26
- Foil
- $0.33
Etched
- Etched
- $2.19
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $2.37
- Foil
- $2.30
- Normal
- $0.32
- Foil
- $5.02
- Normal
- $0.31
- Normal
- $0.35
- Normal
- $0.26
- Normal
- $0.22
- Foil
- $0.56
Promo
Fate Reforged Promos
- Foil
- $1.45
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
