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|name=Vraska | |name=Vraska | ||
|birthplace= Old Rav, [[Undercity]], [[Ravnica]] | |birthplace= Old Rav, [[Undercity]], [[Ravnica]] | ||
|lifetime= [[ | |born={{circa}} 4523 [[AR]] (~10,040 [[ZC]]) | ||
|race=[[Gorgon]] [[Planeswalker]] | |lifetime=''[[Compleation|Compleated]]'' 4562<br/>''Uncompleated'' 4562 | ||
|colors=Center: {{mana| | |race=[[Gorgon]]<br/>Formerly [[Planeswalker]]<br/>Briefly [[Phyrexian]] | ||
|colors=Center: {{mana|GB}}<ref>{{EzTumblr|https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/186014534043/so-if-a-planeswalkers-base-colors-are-red-and|title=Vraska is base black and green|July 2, 2019}}</ref> | |||
|sources=[[Phyrexia: All Will Be One]] | |||
|children=[[Loot (Fomori)|Loot]] (adopted) | |||
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'''Vraska''' is a [[black]] and [[green]]-aligned gorgon [[ | {{otheruses|The Silencer}} | ||
'''Vraska''' (<small>[[Phyrexian (language)|Phyrexian]]:</small> <span style="font-family:PhyrexianHorizontal">lreLhFD</span>, <small>[[Wikipedia:International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]: [vraskəʔ]</small>) is a [[black]] and [[green]]-aligned [[gorgon]] [[assassin]] and former [[planeswalker]] from [[Ravnica]]. She was part of a [[mercenary]] organization of assassins known as the [[Ochran]].<ref name="Pride"/><ref name="Talented"/> Later she became the '''Queen of the [[Golgari Swarm]]'''. On [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]], she is known as '''Captain Vraska'''.<ref name="Talented"/> She was [[Compleation|''compleated'']] for a period during the events of ''[[Phyrexia: All Will Be One]]'' until the defeat of [[Elesh Norn]], after which she was un-compleated but lost her spark in the [[Desparkening]]. | |||
== Appearance and characteristics == | ==Appearance and characteristics== | ||
Vraska is a striking, green-scaled woman with long, black [[snake]]-like hair tendrils.<ref name="Jailbreak"/> She has narrow features and bright yellow eyes with crow's feet at the corners.<ref name="OTJ Epilogue 1"/> Her eyes shine golden when she uses her power to turn her victims to stone. Like all gorgons, she likes to collect trophies.<ref name="Chapter Four">[[Django Wexler]] (June 26, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]]'', Chapter Four.</ref> Fiercely independent from a hostile upbringing, she took pride in her spark, represented through her trophies of interplanar trinkets. On [[Bloomburrow (plane)|Bloomburrow]], Vraska appears as a [[lizard]]folk with green and black scales.<ref name="The Lost"/> | |||
Vraska | After her compleation, Vraska grew a long, curved, scorpion-like barbed tail.<ref name="Losses"/> Her tendrils hardened to wire and coils.<ref name="The Same"/> After being healed from phyresis, she no longer bears these mutations but is heavily scarred where the metal and oil were excised from her body.<ref name="Jailbreak"/><ref name="High Moon"/> | ||
Vraska used to be a sadistic and efficient killer, an [[assassin]] of the Ochran. She resented the order of the Azorius, thanks to her upbringing, and the world around her. To fulfill her ambitions of becoming [[guildmaster]] and restore equality within the Golgari, she aligned herself with [[Nicol Bolas]]. Caring not for her actions, she only began to see that there was still something worth cherishing within life upon being trapped on [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]] alongside [[Jace Beleren]]. At first, attempting to manipulate Jace, she soon found herself admiring his honesty and his unbiased view of the world around him. By the time their journey came to an end, she looked back on her past actions with a different view and found herself longing for the mind mage's companionship. | |||
Vraska is centered in [[black]] and [[green]] | After the [[War of the Spark (event)|War of the Spark]], she more openly works with others, even showing a moment of affection by sharing a kiss with Jace. | ||
Vraska is [[primary|primarily]] centered in [[black]] and secondary in [[green]]. When she planeswalks, she fades into shadow.<ref name="Forsaken">[[Greg Weisman]] (November 2019). "''[[War of the Spark: Forsaken]]''". Del Rey.</ref> | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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Vraska's life had been fairly simple in the [[Undercity]], on the fringes of the [[Golgari Swarm]].<ref name="Unseen">{{DailyRef|feature/vraska-unseen-2017-10-04|Vraska the Unseen|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|October 4, 2017}}</ref> However, on a world such as Ravnica, even a simple life can be destroyed by politics. | Vraska's life had been fairly simple in the [[Undercity]], on the fringes of the [[Golgari Swarm]].<ref name="Unseen">{{DailyRef|feature/vraska-unseen-2017-10-04|Vraska the Unseen|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|October 4, 2017}}</ref> However, on a world such as Ravnica, even a simple life can be destroyed by politics. | ||
Vraska was seventeen when the [[Azorius Senate]] decided that the Golgari had grown too powerful, too numerous and needed to be pushed out of certain areas they'd claimed.<ref name="Chapter Ten">[[Django Wexler]] (August 14, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]]'', Chapter Ten.</ref> [[Isperia]], then a high ranking Azorius judge, issued a writ of mass arrest for any | Vraska was seventeen when the [[Azorius Senate]] decided that the Golgari had grown too powerful, too numerous, and needed to be pushed out of certain areas they'd claimed.<ref name="Chapter Ten">[[Django Wexler]] (August 14, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]]'', Chapter Ten.</ref><ref name="The Same"/> [[Isperia]], then a high-ranking Azorius judge, issued a writ of a mass arrest for any people caught bearing allegiance to the Golgari.<ref>{{DailyRef|magic-story/the-shadows-of-prahv-part-1|The Shadows of Prahv, Part 1|[[Jenna Helland]]|August 28, 2012}}</ref> Vraska was amongst those apprehended, and they were taken to an Azorius detention compound, the place where all victims of the writ had been imprisoned. Vraska was kept blindfolded with broken ribs in standing water for weeks, only able to listen as another gorgon, [[Sisters of Stone Death|Ludmilla]], was blinded and killed.<ref name="The Same"/> The cells quickly filled beyond capacity, and, vastly outnumbered by their prisoners, the Azorius guards were swept under the tide of a prison riot. These events became known as the ''Duskend Purges''.<ref name="Chapter Six">[[Django Wexler]] (July 11, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]]'', Chapter Six.</ref> Vraska and her fellow inmates found themselves quickly ferried away to a secure location while much of the riot continued, but in the tight confines of the basement, they were trapped. Hours passed and tensions grew thick, the guards becoming nervous and abusive. Soon enough, the prisoners had taken enough from their callous jailors. | ||
===Escape=== | ===Escape=== | ||
Many of the Golgari captives worked together and freed Vraska, but realizing the threat, the guards quickly turned their | Many of the Golgari captives worked together and freed Vraska, but realizing the threat, the guards quickly turned their attention to her. She was severely beaten and lay near death when her [[planeswalker's spark]] [[Planeswalker/Igniting|ignited]], threw her away from the world she knew.<ref name="Chapter Ten"/> She woke up in a swamp on a dark plane, with half her ribs broken and no idea where she was. She lay in the darkness, unable to understand what had happened, and much time passed before she learned to control her abilities.<ref>{{DailyRef|magic-story/the-shadows-of-prahv-part-2|The Shadows of Prahv, Part 2|[[Jenna Helland]]|April 9, 2012}}</ref> | ||
===Assassin=== | ===Assassin=== | ||
Two years after her disappearance, she returned to Ravnica. In her travels, she had learned an important lesson, a creed by which to live her life. ''"A person should die the death they deserve."'' She began gathering followers in her quest to bring justice to those she felt deserved her retribution. Many died in her name, all deaths thematically linked to how they lived their lives. Amongst her many victims and those of her followers, there was always a special place for the Azorius. Slowly, she sought justice against those who had a hand in the riot, the guards, the arbiters, any who were connected to it in any way. | [[File:Vraska Gorgon look.jpg|thumb|Vraska's Petrifying Stare|231x231px|alt=|left]] | ||
Two years after her disappearance, she returned to Ravnica. In her travels, she had learned an important lesson, a creed by which to live her life. ''"A person should die the death they deserve."'' She began gathering followers in her quest to bring justice to those she felt deserved her retribution. Many died in her name, all deaths thematically linked to how they lived their lives. Amongst her many victims and those of her followers, there was always a special place for the Azorius. Slowly, she sought justice against those who had a hand in the riot, the guards, the arbiters, and any who were connected to it in any way. | |||
In between her missions of bloody vengeance, she has become something of a shadowy urban legend amongst the Golgari. She only surfaces when something stirs her interest, the exact reasoning a mystery to all involved. She chooses her missions carefully and stays well away from guild politics. Her activities have begun to gain notoriety even outside the undercity and her targets die swiftly once she commits herself. After her mission is completed, she disappears back into the aether, taking her expertise to other planes to gain experience and add to her ever growing collection of trophies.<ref>{{PWBio|Vraska}}</ref> | In between her missions of bloody vengeance, she has become something of a shadowy urban legend amongst the Golgari. She only surfaces when something stirs her interest, the exact reasoning a mystery to all involved. She chooses her missions carefully and stays well away from guild politics. Her activities have begun to gain notoriety even outside the undercity and her targets die swiftly once she commits herself. After her mission is completed, she disappears back into the aether, taking her expertise to other planes to gain experience and add to her ever-growing collection of trophies.<ref>{{PWBio|Vraska}}</ref> | ||
===Grander plans=== | ===Grander plans=== | ||
Vraska attempted to force [[Jace Beleren]] into her service. She gathered citizens of Ravnica whose names would be known only to a planeswalker and arranged them to spell Jace's name. It forced him into a confrontation with the assassin and she used various threats and attempts at coercion to bring him under her sway. Jace ultimately escaped her clutches and shone light onto her existence, possibly undoing everything she'd | Vraska attempted to force [[Jace Beleren]] into her service. She gathered citizens of Ravnica whose names would be known only to a planeswalker and arranged them to spell Jace's name. It forced him into a confrontation with the assassin and she used various threats and attempts at coercion to bring him under her sway. Jace ultimately escaped her clutches and shone a light onto her existence, possibly undoing everything she'd tried to accomplish. It is unclear if she can ever return to the shadows now.<ref>{{DailyRef|magic-story/gorgon-and-guildpact-2014-03-12|The Gorgon and the Guildpact|[[Doug Beyer]]|March 12, 2014}}</ref> At this time, she contacted the disenfranchised among the Golgari, to rally them against [[Jarad]] and his elves. She found willing allies in the [[Kraul]], who delved into darker necromancies to unearth the [[Erstwhile]] in their hidden catacombs beneath the Undercity.<ref name="Pride">{{DailyRef|magic-story/pride-kraul-2017-05-31|Pride of the Kraul|[[Alison Luhrs]]|May 31, 2017}}</ref> | ||
===Ixalan=== | |||
[[File:Captain Vraska2.jpg|alt=|thumb|331x331px|Captain Vraska]] | |||
An agent of Bolas placed a note in the House of Ochran that invited Vraska to the [[Meditation Plane]]. Here, [[Nicol Bolas]] offered to make her the [[guildmaster]] of the Golgari and bring those to justice who preyed on the downtrodden, if she would travel to [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]] and deliver the item stored in the Golden City of [[Orazca]] to one of his agents. To aid her in this, Bolas gifted Vraska with a <c>Thaumatic Compass</c> and the knowledge of sailing. | |||
On Ixalan, Vraska posed as a member of the [[Brazen Coalition]], serving Lord ''Nicolas''. Assembling her crew and her ship named ''[[Belligerent]]'', she turned out to be a very democratic leader, which earned her a great deal of respect and admiration from her crew.<ref name="Unseen"/> | |||
[[File:Mastermind's Acquisition.jpg|left|thumb|239x239px|Vraska obtains the Immortal Sun for Bolas.]] | |||
Guided by the compass, her ship found the shipwrecked Jace in the sea.<ref>{{DailyRef|magic-story/jace-alone-2017-09-06|Jace, Alone|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|September 6, 2017}}</ref> Seeing that he had no memory of who he was, she spared him. Using his powers as an illusionist, she plundered ships of the [[Legion of Dusk]].<ref name="Talented">{{DailyRef|magic-story/talented-captain-vraska-2017-09-20|The Talented Captain Vraska|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|September 20, 2017}}</ref> Slowly, Vraska and Jace began to develop a new relationship, based on a sense of respect and attraction.<ref>{{DailyRef|magic-story/something-else-entirely-2017-10-04|Something Else Entirely|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|October 4, 2017}}</ref><ref name="The Race 1">{{DailyRef|magic-story/race-part-1-2017-10-11|The Race, Part 1|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|October 11, 2017}}</ref> After The Golden City revealed itself, Vraska and Jace fell in its churning waters. To Vraska's horror, the shock caused Jace's memories to return, his telepathic powers causing her to witness every single memory that returned to him. Vraska was filled with fear that Jace's memories would reignite their enmity, but Jace instead forgave Vraska for her past transgressions against him.<ref name="The Race 2">{{DailyRef|magic-story/race-part-2-2017-10-18|The Race, Part 2|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|October 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name="The Flood">{{DailyRef|magic-story/flood-2018-01-10|The Flood|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|January 10, 2018}}</ref> Their friendship even stronger, they struggled on to Orazca, where they unexpectedly were confronted by a legend of their own home plane: [[Azor|Azor, the Lawbringer]].<ref name="Glimpse Sun">{{DailyRef|magic-story/glimpse-far-side-sun-2018-01-17|Glimpse the Far Side of the Sun|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|January 17, 2018}}</ref> Vraska witnessed how Jace used his power as the [[Guildpact (spell)|Living Guildpact]] to banish the Sphinx to Useless Island.<ref name="Arbiter Law">{{DailyRef|magic-story/arbiter-law-left-chaos-his-wake-2018-01-24|The Arbiter of Law Left Chaos in His Wake|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|January 24, 2018}}</ref> | Guided by the compass, her ship found the shipwrecked Jace in the sea.<ref>{{DailyRef|magic-story/jace-alone-2017-09-06|Jace, Alone|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|September 6, 2017}}</ref> Seeing that he had no memory of who he was, she spared him. Using his powers as an illusionist, she plundered ships of the [[Legion of Dusk]].<ref name="Talented">{{DailyRef|magic-story/talented-captain-vraska-2017-09-20|The Talented Captain Vraska|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|September 20, 2017}}</ref> Slowly, Vraska and Jace began to develop a new relationship, based on a sense of respect and attraction.<ref>{{DailyRef|magic-story/something-else-entirely-2017-10-04|Something Else Entirely|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|October 4, 2017}}</ref><ref name="The Race 1">{{DailyRef|magic-story/race-part-1-2017-10-11|The Race, Part 1|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|October 11, 2017}}</ref> After The Golden City revealed itself, Vraska and Jace fell in its churning waters. To Vraska's horror, the shock caused Jace's memories to return, his telepathic powers causing her to witness every single memory that returned to him. Vraska was filled with fear that Jace's memories would reignite their enmity, but Jace instead forgave Vraska for her past transgressions against him.<ref name="The Race 2">{{DailyRef|magic-story/race-part-2-2017-10-18|The Race, Part 2|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|October 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name="The Flood">{{DailyRef|magic-story/flood-2018-01-10|The Flood|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|January 10, 2018}}</ref> Their friendship even stronger, they struggled on to Orazca, where they unexpectedly were confronted by a legend of their own home plane: [[Azor|Azor, the Lawbringer]].<ref name="Glimpse Sun">{{DailyRef|magic-story/glimpse-far-side-sun-2018-01-17|Glimpse the Far Side of the Sun|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|January 17, 2018}}</ref> Vraska witnessed how Jace used his power as the [[Guildpact (spell)|Living Guildpact]] to banish the Sphinx to Useless Island.<ref name="Arbiter Law">{{DailyRef|magic-story/arbiter-law-left-chaos-his-wake-2018-01-24|The Arbiter of Law Left Chaos in His Wake|[[R&D Narrative Team]]|January 24, 2018}}</ref> | ||
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===Guildmaster=== | ===Guildmaster=== | ||
Back on Ravnica, Vraska killed Jarad and established herself as [[guildmaster]].<ref>[[Django Wexler]] (June | [[File:Vraska queen.jpg|thumb|263x263px|Guildmaster.|alt=|left]] | ||
Back on Ravnica, Vraska killed Jarad and established herself as [[guildmaster]].<ref>[[Django Wexler]] (June 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm/Chapter Two]]''.</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|magic-story/deaths-precious-moments-2018-11-07|Death's Precious Moments|[[Nicky Drayden]]|November 7, 2018}}</ref> She was helped by the [[Erstwhile]] (which are more durable and intelligent than regular Golgari rot [[zombie]]s), and the [[Kraul]]. Meanwhile, The [[Devkarin]] clade was bitter about this and wanted the current [[Matka]], [[Izoni]] to take over. | |||
The kraul [[Xeddick]], who was a telepath, found out about Jace's | The kraul [[Xeddick]], who was a telepath, found out about Jace's mind block and removed it at her request.<ref name="Chapter Four"/> She now remembered [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]], her friendship with Jace, and her newfound righteousness. She also realized that Bolas was planning to invade Ravnica with his [[Eternal]] army, and decided to attend the [[guild summit]].<ref name="Chapter Six"/> To prove herself, she pledged her guild to attack the [[Orzhov Syndicate]], to change its leadership. With [[Ral Zarek]] and the Rakdos emissary [[Hekara]] she led an army of rot zombies, trolls, and giant insects into [[Orzhova]] as a distraction, allowing [[Kaya]] to kill the [[Obzedat]].<ref name="Chapter Seven">[[Django Wexler]] (July 18, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]]'', Chapter Seven.</ref> | ||
Though she had been sincere when she had approached Ral Zarek and Kaya to volunteer her services, she ultimately betrayed them.<ref name="Weisman Ravnica novel">[[Greg Weisman]] (April 2019). "''[[War of the Spark: Ravnica]]''". Del Rey.</ref> This happened after she was met by a [[Devkarin]] [[elf]] who turned out to be possessed by Bolas.<ref name="Chapter Nine">[[Django Wexler]] (August 7, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]]'', Chapter Nine.</ref> Bolas noted that Vraska has deviated from her assigned role by helping Ral Zarek. He threatened to turn the [[Erstwhile]] against the [[Golgari]], creating death and chaos for her people. Bolas then forced her to make a choice, for or against him. While making the choice, Vraska felt guilty | Though she had been sincere when she had approached Ral Zarek and Kaya to volunteer her services, she ultimately betrayed them.<ref name="Weisman Ravnica novel">[[Greg Weisman]] (April 2019). "''[[War of the Spark: Ravnica]]''". Del Rey.</ref> This happened after she was met by a [[Devkarin]] [[elf]] who turned out to be possessed by Bolas.<ref name="Chapter Nine">[[Django Wexler]] (August 7, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]]'', Chapter Nine.</ref> Bolas noted that Vraska has deviated from her assigned role by helping Ral Zarek. He threatened to turn the [[Erstwhile]] against the [[Golgari]], creating death and chaos for her people. Bolas then forced her to make a choice, for or against him. While making the choice, Vraska felt guilty toward her friend [[Jace]]. | ||
Vraska killed [[Isperia]] after the guild summit as payback for the suffering of her youth. After that, she continued to fight for Bolas because she was worried that she would be deposed | Vraska killed [[Isperia]] after the guild summit as payback for the suffering of her youth. After that, she continued to fight for Bolas because she was worried that she would be deposed as Golgari's guildmaster without his help. During a confrontation with Ral Zarek and Aurelia, she only managed to escape at the cost of Xeddick's life.<ref name="Chapter Fourteen">[[Django Wexler]] (September 11, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]]'', Chapter Fourteen.</ref> Later, Bolas orders Vraska to kill Ral after his great machine fails and to disrupt his backup plan.<ref name="Chapter Sixteen">[[Django Wexler]] (September 25, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]]'', Chapter Sixteen.</ref> | ||
Vraska's betrayal led to the Rakdos emissary [[Hekara]] being killed by a Bolas-possessed [[Lavinia]]. In the same fight, Vraska proved no match for the fully-powered Ral Zarek and barely escaped getting killed by planeswalking away.<ref name="Chapter Twenty">[[Django Wexler]] (October 23, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]], Chapter Twenty, Del Rey.</ref> | Vraska's betrayal led to the Rakdos emissary [[Hekara]] being killed by a Bolas-possessed [[Lavinia]]. In the same fight, Vraska proved no match for the fully-powered Ral Zarek and barely escaped getting killed by planeswalking away.<ref name="Chapter Twenty">[[Django Wexler]] (October 23, 2019), ''[[The Gathering Storm]], Chapter Twenty, Del Rey.</ref> | ||
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===War of the Spark=== | ===War of the Spark=== | ||
Vraska had planeswalked to Ixalan to escape from being killed by Ral Zarek for betraying their group. As a result, she was not present on Ravnica when Bolas' [[War of the Spark (event)|invasion]] began. However, she worried that the Golgari Swarm would fall apart without her, and she eventually decided to return to Ravnica out of concern for her people. | Vraska had planeswalked to Ixalan to escape from being killed by Ral Zarek for betraying their group. As a result, she was not present on Ravnica when Bolas' [[War of the Spark (event)|invasion]] began. However, she worried that the Golgari Swarm would fall apart without her, and she eventually decided to return to Ravnica out of concern for her people. | ||
[[File:Vraska and the Golgari.jpg|thumb|241x241px|Vraska leads the Golgari against Bolas.|alt=]] | |||
Upon returning home, she encountered Ral and Kaya in the [[Undercity]], where they were trying to convince the other Golgari leaders to support their cause.<ref name="Operatives">{{DailyRef|magic-story/war-spark-ravnica-desperate-operatives-2019-05-29|War of the Spark: Ravnica – Desperate Operatives|[[Greg Weisman]]|May 29, 2019}}</ref> Despite Ral and Kaya's suspicion of the [[gorgon]], Vraska united the Golgari once again and pledged the guild to the fight against Bolas. With the help of [[Ajani]] and his team of planeswalkers, they were able to evacuate many civilians to the tunnels beneath the city, where they would be safe from the Dreadhorde. | Upon returning home, she encountered Ral and Kaya in the [[Undercity]], where they were trying to convince the other Golgari leaders to support their cause.<ref name="Operatives">{{DailyRef|magic-story/war-spark-ravnica-desperate-operatives-2019-05-29|War of the Spark: Ravnica – Desperate Operatives|[[Greg Weisman]]|May 29, 2019}}</ref> Despite Ral and Kaya's suspicion of the [[gorgon]], Vraska united the Golgari once again and pledged the guild to the fight against Bolas. With the help of [[Ajani]] and his team of planeswalkers, they were able to evacuate many civilians to the tunnels beneath the city, where they would be safe from the Dreadhorde. | ||
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Later, Jace reunited with Vraska. He tried to restore her memories, only to find that they'd already been restored by [[Xeddick]]. Vraska confessed that even though she was fully aware of the threat Bolas posed, she still murdered Isperia in a fit of rage, despite knowing that it would help further Bolas' plans. Jace forgave her and promised to get together with her if they made it out of the war alive.<ref name="Ashes">{{DailyRef|magic-story/war-spark-ravnica-ashes-2019-06-12|War of the Spark: Ravnica – Ashes|[[Greg Weisman]]|June 12, 2019}}</ref> | Later, Jace reunited with Vraska. He tried to restore her memories, only to find that they'd already been restored by [[Xeddick]]. Vraska confessed that even though she was fully aware of the threat Bolas posed, she still murdered Isperia in a fit of rage, despite knowing that it would help further Bolas' plans. Jace forgave her and promised to get together with her if they made it out of the war alive.<ref name="Ashes">{{DailyRef|magic-story/war-spark-ravnica-ashes-2019-06-12|War of the Spark: Ravnica – Ashes|[[Greg Weisman]]|June 12, 2019}}</ref> | ||
Vraska survived the battle and was present during the <c>Planewide Celebration</c> that followed, where she and Jace finally shared a kiss. Later, she was confronted by Niv-Mizzet and the other guildmasters (with Tomik now representing the Orzhov Syndicate in Kaya's place). They decided to spare the planeswalkers who formerly worked with Bolas but defected before the battle, on the condition that they make amends by hunting down the planeswalkers who stayed loyal to Bolas or defected too late. As her penance, Vraska was assigned the task of capturing Dovin Baan.<ref name="Ashes" | Vraska survived the battle and was present during the <c>Planewide Celebration</c> that followed, where she and Jace finally shared a kiss. Later, she was confronted by Niv-Mizzet and the other guildmasters (with Tomik now representing the Orzhov Syndicate in Kaya's place). They decided to spare the planeswalkers who formerly worked with Bolas but defected before the battle, on the condition that they make amends by hunting down the planeswalkers who stayed loyal to Bolas or defected too late. As her penance, Vraska was assigned the task of capturing Dovin Baan.<ref name="Ashes"/> | ||
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By command of the new Living Guildpact, who feared his interference, Jace had to be kept out of the loop concerning the assignment. Vraska's lying, and the ultimate choice for the Golgari, resulted in them growing apart again. | |||
Although Vraska was still guildmaster of the Golgari Swarm, during her absence, her position was contested. The [[elf]] [[shaman]] [[Cevraya]], the [[Devkarin]] [[Izoni]], the [[troll]] [[Varolz]], the [[kraul]] [[Azdomas]], and the [[Erstwhile]] leader [[Storrev]] all claimed to have a right to the title.<ref name="Operatives"/> | |||
After being blinded by Lazav, Dovin Baan planeswalked to his home on [[Kaladesh (plane)|Kaladesh]] but soon returned to his safe house on [[Ravnica]].<ref name="Forsaken"/> There he was discovered by Vraska, and in exchange for his life, Baan offered to help her retain control over the [[Golgari]]. Vraska accepted the offer and Baan helped her frame [[Izoni]] for a crime that she didn't commit. Together they also plotted to fake Baan's death. Using a statue replica of himself, a fight was staged in Zinara on [[Regatha]] with [[Chandra Nalaar]] being an unsuspecting accomplice. During the fight, Vraska severed Baan's right hand to use as proof of a kill while Chandra believed she had delivered the killing blow. The plan succeeded and Baan returned to Ravnica, only to be assassinated by [[Araithia Shokta|Atkos Tarr]] who had been sent by Lazav in his plans to blackmail Vraska. | |||
Vraska is now in control of the Golgari again, but in turn, is controlled by Lazav who will make her failure to kill Baan known to the Living Guildpact if she doesn't comply with his wishes. | |||
===Assault on New Phyrexia=== | |||
[[File:Phyrexian Arena ONE.jpg|thumb|239x239px|A compleated Vraska injecting Jace with [[Glistening oil]]|left]] | |||
Vraska joined with Jace, the [[Gatewatch]], and other assembled planeswalkers to support the [[Mirran]]s' efforts against [[Elesh Norn]] on [[New Phyrexia (plane)|New Phyrexia]].<ref name="Exodus">{{WebRef|url=https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/the-brothers-war-chapter-5-exodus|title=The Brother's War - Chapter 5: Exodus|author=[[Seanan McGuire]]|date=October 26, 2022|publisher=Magicthegathering.com}}</ref> However, when they traveled to New Phyrexia, she was caught by the Phyrexians and forced to fight in [[Mephidross#The Dross Pits|Sheoldred's Coliseum]].<ref name="Losses">{{DailyRef|magic-story/assault-on-new-phyrexia-or-episode-3-inconceivable-losses|Assault on New Phyrexia - Episode 3: Inconceivable Losses|[[Seanan McGuire]]|January 14, 2023}}</ref> | |||
[[File:Vraska, Betrayal's Sting.jpg|thumb|332x332px|[[Compleation|Compleated]]. ]] | |||
When her teammates reached Vraska, they found she was heavily wounded and already infected with [[Phyresis]]. Too late to save her, Jace chose to stay behind with her and relive their happy moments on Ravnica in their minds. Lingering too long, Vraska succumbed to the Phyrexian influence and infected Jace in turn. Now compleated, Vraska's body became fully altered. Metallic markings stretch across her face and upper body, her snake-like hair has transformed into segmented cables with sharp edges, her fingers grew longer and now look skeletal, and her entire lower body has become long and serpentine, connected to a long tail ending with a scorpion-like stinger that injects glistening oil.<ref name="Losses"/> | |||
===Phyrexian Invasion=== | |||
Vraska led the invasion of Ravnica, using the opportunity to enact a personal vengeance for the Azorius's imprisonment of the Golgari. Many of the Golgari submitted to compleation given her status as guildmaster. As retribution for Ludmilla's blinding during the Duskend Purges, she instructed her forces to blind the Ravnicans, who then scrabbled upon the glistening oil-slicked streets. However, Jace's mental partition persisted and her pre-compleation self still bubbled through with emotions and nostalgia, subconsciously leading her through her and Jace's Ravnican living spaces.<ref name="The Same"/> | |||
[[Ral Zarek]] was able to disable Vraska's body with a sonic device that neutralized [[glistening oil]], functionally killing the active consciousness of Vraska's compleated self.<ref name="The Same">{{DailyRef|magic-story/one-and-the-same|''March of the Machine'' - Ravnica: One and the Same|[[Alison Lührs]]|March 24, 2023}}</ref> Jace, having suppressed the psychosis of phyresis, arrived to tend to Vraska, giving her mind a psychic defense to the oil and planeswalking her away to Vryn.<ref name="OTJ Epilogue 1">{{DailyRef|magic-story/epilogue-1-the-invasion-tree|Outlaws of Thunder Junction - Epilogue 1: Bring the End, Part 1|[[Alison Lührs]]|April 1, 2024}}</ref> Most believed her dead at this point, despite no body of proof.<ref name="Repair">{{DailyRef|magic-story/beyond-repair|March of the Machine: The Aftermath - Beyond Repair|[[Emily Teng]]|May 2, 2023}}</ref> | |||
[[File:JaceVraskaOTJ.jpg|thumb|left|Jace and Vraska recover from ''[[compleation]]''.]] | |||
Jace had brought Vraska to his childhood home.<ref name="OTJ Epilogue 2">{{DailyRef|magic-story/epilogue-2-bring-the-end-part-2|''Outlaws of Thunder Junction'' - Epilogue 2: Bring the End, Part 2|[[Alison Lührs]]|April 2, 2024}}</ref> Fortunately, his mother [[Ranna Beleren|Ranna]] was a healer who had been treating those afflicted with phyresis during the invasion. Using surgical implements and [[phoenix]] feathers, she burned most of the oil away and regenerated new tissue to replace what Vraska had lost to Ral's attack. During their healing process, Vraska acquainted herself with Ranna, who had believed Jace was dead. She indirectly suggested that her son and Vraska should get married. | |||
A short while after the war's end, Vraska and Jace noticed that [[Omenpath|Omenpaths]] had begun opening on Vryn.<ref name="OTJ Epilogue 2"/> Feeling certain that no good could come of this change, they plotted a rebirth of the Multiverse to end the multiversal conflicts that had scarred them. Jace knew about an [[Maag Taranau|ancient vault]] on the plane of [[Thunder Junction]] that could be helpful to their goals. Some months after their arrival on Vryn, they planned to set off in pursuit of the vault's treasure, but Vraska realized that she [[Desparkening|had lost her planeswalker's spark]]. They recognized that they needed additional backup and changed their plans. | |||
While Jace made preparations on Ravnica and [[Eldraine]], Vraska found an Omenpath from Vryn to Ixalan and traveled there to recruit Malcolm and Breeches into their plan.<ref name="OTJ Epilogue 2"/> They were overjoyed to see her alive and enthusiastically accepted. Finally, Jace located an Omenpath to Thunder Junction, and they put their plan into motion. | |||
===Thunder Junction=== | |||
Upon arrival, Jace disguised himself as [[Ashiok]] and hired [[Oko]] to put together a team of outlaws. Vraska joined this team to keep an eye on the untrustworthy [[faerie]].<ref>{{TwitterRef|wizards_magic|1772655633226924138|author=[[Magic: The Gathering]]|title=Former Planeswalker, former guildmaster, still a force to be reckoned with.|date=March 26, 2024}}</ref> While she had an encounter with [[Ral Zarek]] outside the [[Sterling Company]] headquarters, there was not much time for questioning before [[Rakdos]] punched him across the sands.<ref name="Jailbreak">{{DailyRef|magic-story/episode-2-the-jailbreak|Episode 2: The Jailbreak|[[Akemi Dawn Bowman]]|March 13, 2024}}</ref> She questioned accepting [[Kellan]]'s sudden betrayal in favor of his father Oko, who invoked his parental "responsibility" to take him in. | |||
[[File:Vraska the Silencer.jpg|thumb|320x320px|Desparked on [[Thunder Junction]].]] | |||
Following the successful but almost disastrous mission to capture the Outcaster [[List of secondary characters#Thunder Junction|Nolan]], Oko’s crew regrouped.<ref name="Train">{{DailyRef|magic-story/episode-3-a-train-to-prosperity|Episode 3: A Train to Prosperity|[[Akemi Dawn Bowman]]|March 17, 2024}}</ref> Jace scoured Nolan's mind and found that the key in their possession was one of six, but the infamous dragon outlaw [[Akul]] held the other five.<ref name="Tarnation">{{DailyRef|magic-story/episode-4-finding-tarnation|Episode 4: Finding Tarnation|[[Akemi Dawn Bowman]]|March 20, 2024}}</ref> In addition, Jace discovered that a map to Tarnation was buried in Thief’s Folly, a mission for which [[Gisa Cecani]] and [[Geralf Cecani]] gladly accepted and returned with the map in hand. Vraska traveled to Tarnation with Oko, Kellan, and [[Annie Flash]] as they attempted to locate Akul and steal the other keys. After an intense bar fight, Oko’s team was captured and brought before Akul who took Oko’s key which turned out to be the sixth piece of a single key. Facing torture and execution, Kellan challenged Akul to a duel, who reluctantly accepted to avoid losing face in front of the Hellspurs. | |||
Vraska, Oko, and Annie were bound and brought to observe Kellan’s duel with Akul.<ref name="High Moon"/> Outmatched and close to defeat, Kellan’s innate powers sprang to life, which placed Akul in a trance. Kellan attempted to strangle Akul, but his magic wavered at the thought of killing another being. Akul regained his senses and quickly overpowered Kellan, but before landing the killing blow; he was struck by thunder as Ral Zarek arrived with Sterling mercenaries, allowing Kellan to retreat and sending Tarnation into chaos. Concealed within Oko’s bone armor, [[Tinybones]] reassembled and unlocked their chains, allowing Vraska to turn their remaining captors to stone. Oko called out to Kellan for the key, which Akul had unknowingly lost in the mayhem. Kellan tossed the key to his father and attempted to join their escape but was knocked unconscious by a Sterling guard. | |||
Annie pressed the others to return for Kellan in a nearby saloon, but Vraska and Oko resisted.<ref name="High Moon">{{DailyRef|magic-story/episode-5-high-moon|Episode 5: High Moon|[[Akemi Dawn Bowman]]|March 22, 2024}}</ref> Oko revealed that he had anticipated their capture and secretly shared the location of Tarnation with [[Bertram Graywater]]. Although Kellan’s heroics were unexpected, Oko had counted on the arrival of the Sterling Company. Vraska expressed her displeasure for not having been in on the plan, and despite Annie’s desire to rescue Kellan, the group set out to unlock Maag Taranau before Akul and the Hellspurs caught up with them. | |||
[[File:Loot.jpg|thumb|Jace and Vraska meet [[Loot (Fomori)|Loot]].]] | |||
Jace, as Ashiok, met the gang at the vault and helped secure the key from Kellan, who had almost taken it from Oko.<ref name="The Ballad">{{DailyRef|magic-story/episode-6-the-ballad-of-thieves-and-thunderslingers|Episode 6: The Ballad of Thieves and Thunderslingers|[[Akemi Dawn Bowman]]|March 25, 2024}}</ref> Jace opened the vault and claimed their prize: within the vault was an [[Loot (Fomori)|infant creature]] that had been in stasis for millennia. Oko realized he had been tricked, and Vraska attempted to petrify him, but he escaped. After that, Jace and Vraska disappeared with their prize, [[Loot (Fomori)|Loot]]. After getting to safety, they discovered the creature's immense power: it could visualize a map of every planar connection across the Multiverse. They celebrated their victory that night and took an Omenpath to another plane the next morning. | |||
===Bloomburrow=== | |||
Vraska, Jace, and Loot traveled to [[Bloomburrow (plane)|Bloomburrow]].<ref name="The Lost"/> The plane's magic caused Vraska to appear as a [[lizard]]folk. | |||
==Trivia== | |||
*In the video game ''[[Magic: The Gathering Arena]]'', Vraska is voiced by Katy Townsend.<ref>{{WebRef|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10967214/characters/nm3180237|title=Katy Townsend as Vraska|publisher=IMDB}}</ref> | |||
*Vraska appears in the [[Phyrexia: All Will Be One]] trailer.<ref>{{YouTubeRef|gPTEufbfoIg|Phyrexia: All Will Be One Official Cinematic Trailer|channel=Magic: The Gathering|date=January 17, 2023}}</ref> | |||
*Through her relationship with Jace, it's implied that gorgons and humans are [[Wikipedia:Reproductive isolation|reproductively isolated]].<ref name="OTJ Epilogue 2"/> | |||
==Artifacts acquired== | |||
*Vraska received the <c>Thaumatic Compass</c> from [[Nicol Bolas|Bolas]], which she used to find the [[Immortal Sun]] on [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]]. The compass is dull silver, a series of stacks of circles and etchings, with one long point extending from an empty ring on its side.<ref name="The Same"/> She remains in possession of the compass after returning to [[Ravnica]]. | |||
*On Ixalan, Vraska obtains and uses a [[Wikipedia:Cutlass|cutlass]] which she later takes to Ravnica.<ref name="Talented" /> | |||
*Collecting keepsakes from her travels, she has a [[Locthwain]] banner, a Theran pot, a Kaldheimr drinking horn, and a Segovian chariot in her Ravnican apartment.<ref name="The Same"/> | |||
==Planeswalkers met== | ==Planeswalkers met== | ||
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*[[Ajani Goldmane]] | *[[Ajani Goldmane]] | ||
*[[Angrath]] | *[[Angrath]] | ||
*[[Arlinn Kord]]<ref name="Magic 9">MacKay, Jed. (2021). ''[[Magic (BOOM! comic)|Magic]]''. Vol 1, Iss 9.</ref> (non-[[List of storyline sources|canon]]) | |||
*[[Azor]] | *[[Azor]] | ||
*[[Basri Ket]]<ref name="Magic 9"/> (non-[[List of storyline sources|canon]]) | |||
*[[Chandra Nalaar]] | *[[Chandra Nalaar]] | ||
*[[Dovin Baan]] | |||
*[[Elspeth Tirel]]<ref name="Exodus"/> | |||
*[[Garruk]]<ref name="Magic 19"/> (non-canon) | |||
*[[Huatli]] | *[[Huatli]] | ||
*[[Jace Beleren]] | *[[Jace Beleren]] | ||
*[[Jaya Ballard]] | *[[Jaya Ballard]] | ||
*[[Jiang Yanggu]] | *[[Jiang Yanggu]] | ||
*[[Kaito Shizuki]]<ref name="Exodus"/> | |||
*[[Karn]] | *[[Karn]] | ||
*[[Kaya]] <ref name="Forsaken"/> | *[[Kaya Cassir]]<ref name="Forsaken"/> | ||
*[[Koth of the Hammer]]<ref name="Losses"/> | |||
*[[Kiora]] | *[[Kiora]] | ||
*[[Liliana Vess]] | *[[Liliana Vess]]<ref name="Forsaken"/><ref name="Magic 9"/> | ||
*[[Lukka]]<ref name="Exodus"/> | |||
*[[Mu Yanling]] | *[[Mu Yanling]] | ||
*[[Nahiri]]<ref name="Exodus"/> | |||
*[[Nicol Bolas]] | *[[Nicol Bolas]] | ||
*[[Niko Aris]]<ref name="Magic 22">[[Jed MacKay]] (2023). ''[[Magic (BOOM! comic)|Magic]]''. Iss 22. Boom!</ref> (non-canon) | |||
*[[Nissa Revane]] | *[[Nissa Revane]] | ||
*[[Oko]]<ref name="Jailbreak"/> | |||
*[[Ral Zarek]] | *[[Ral Zarek]] | ||
*[[Rowan Kenrith]]<ref name="Magic 19"/> (non-canon) | |||
*[[Saheeli Rai]] | *[[Saheeli Rai]] | ||
*[[Samut]] | *[[Samut]] | ||
*[[Tamiyo]] | *[[Tamiyo]] | ||
*[[Teferi]] | *[[Teferi Akosa]] | ||
*[[Teyo Verada]] | *[[Teyo Verada]] | ||
*[[Tezzeret]] | *[[Tezzeret]] | ||
*[[Tibalt]]<ref name="Magic 19">MacKay, Jed. (2022). ''[[Magic (BOOM! comic)|Magic]]''. Iss 19.</ref> (non-canon) | |||
*[[Tyvar Kell]]<ref name="Exodus"/> | |||
*[[Vivien Reid]]<ref name="Forsaken"/> | *[[Vivien Reid]]<ref name="Forsaken"/> | ||
*[[The Wanderer]] | *[[The Wanderer]]<ref name="Exodus"/> | ||
*[[Will Kenrith]]<ref name="Magic 19"/> (non-canon) | |||
*[[Wrenn]]<ref name="Exodus"/> | |||
}} | }} | ||
==Planes visited== | ==Planes visited== | ||
*[[ | {{columns-list|colwidth=15em| | ||
*[[ | *[[Amonkhet (plane)|Amonkhet]]<ref name="Magic 9"/> (non-[[List of storyline sources|canon]]) | ||
*[[Angrath]]'s home plane<ref name="Magic 9"/> (non-[[List of storyline sources|canon]]) | |||
*[[Bloomburrow (plane)|Bloomburrow]]<ref name="The Lost">{{DailyRef|magic-story/episode-3-the-lost-and-the-found|''Bloomburrow'' Episode 3: The Lost and the Found|[[Valerie Valdes]]|July 3, 2024}}</ref> | |||
*[[Dominaria (plane)|Dominaria]]<ref name="Exodus"/> | |||
*[[Eldraine]]<ref name="The Same"/> | |||
*[[Innistrad]]<ref name="The Same"/> | |||
*[[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]]<ref name="Weisman Ravnica novel"/> | |||
*[[Kaladesh (plane)|Kaladesh]]<ref name="Forsaken"/> | |||
*[[Kaldheim (plane)|Kaldheim]]<ref name="The Same"/> | |||
*[[Meditation Plane]] | *[[Meditation Plane]] | ||
*[[New Phyrexia (plane)|New Phyrexia]] | |||
*[[Ravnica]]<ref name="Weisman Ravnica novel" /> | *[[Ravnica]]<ref name="Weisman Ravnica novel" /> | ||
*[[Regatha]]<ref name="Forsaken"/> | *[[Regatha]]<ref name="Forsaken"/> | ||
*[[Segovia]]<ref name="The Same"/> | |||
*[[Tarkir]]<ref name="OTJ Epilogue 2"/> | |||
*[[Theros (plane)|Theros]]<ref name="The Same"/> | |||
*[[Thunder Junction]]<ref name="Jailbreak"/> | |||
*[[Vryn]] | |||
*[[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]]<ref name="The Same"/> | |||
}} | |||
==Gallery== | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:VraskaModel.jpg|3D model. | |||
File:VraskaModel2.jpg|''[[Compleation|Compleated]]'' 3D model. | |||
File:VraskaModel3.jpg|''[[Compleation|Compleated]]'' 3D model. | |||
File:Vraska the Unseen variant.jpg|In her youth, Vraska was an assassin under the command of the Golgari. | |||
File:Night's Whisper.jpg|''“I have seen things that would reduce a weaker person to blubbering and raving. Want to hear about them?”'' | |||
File:Ixalan key art.jpg|Vraska in ''Ixalan'' key art. | |||
File:VraskaManga.png|Vraska in the ''Ixalan'' [[manga]]. | |||
File:Vraska, Relic Seeker.jpg|In exchange for the leadership of the Golgari Swarm, Vraska must seek out and deliver the Immortal Sun to Nicol Bolas. | |||
File:Vraska's Contempt.jpg|''“They say nothing lasts forever. I say everything lasts forever, just not in the form you may be accustomed to.”'' | |||
File:Vraska's Stoneglare.png|Upon returning to Ravnica, Vraska begins her revenge against those who hurt her. | |||
File:Induced-Amnesia.jpg|Vraska allows Jace to seal some of her memories so Bolas doesn't discover their plans. | |||
File:VraskaManga2.png|Vraska in the ''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' [[manga]]. | |||
File:Vraska, GolgariQueen.jpg|Vraska's original appearance before becoming a [[phyrexian]]. | |||
File:Vraska, Swarm's Eminence.jpg|After resolving her internal conflicts, Vraska decides that the Golgari would fight against Bolas. | |||
File:JaceVraskaManga2.png|Jace and Vraska reunite. | |||
File:ONEConcept.jpg|[[Jace]] attempts to rescue Vraska from [[Mephidross|Sheoldred's Coliseum]]. | |||
File:JaceVraska.png|Vraska and Jace. | |||
File:Magic comic 2d cover.jpg|[[Magic (BOOM! comic)|Magic Boom! comic]] cover featuring Vraska. | |||
File:Vraska MTGA avatar GRN.png|[[Magic: The Gathering Arena]] avatar. | |||
File:Vraska MTGA avatar ONE.png|Compleat Vraska [[Magic: The Gathering Arena|Arena]] avatar. | |||
File:Vraska's Fall.jpg|Vraska trying to fend off Phyrexians in Sheoldred's arena. | |||
File:Outlaws key art.jpg|''[[Outlaws of Thunder Junction]]'' [[key art]] featuring [[Oko]]'s crew by [[Lie Setiawan]]. | |||
File:RakishCrew.png|Oko's crew | |||
File:Vraska OTJ concept.jpg|Post-compleation concept art for ''Outlaws of Thunder Junction'' by [[Kieran Yanner]]. | |||
File:OTJKeyArt5.png|Oko's crew. | |||
File:Wanted Vraska.jpg|Wanted poster from Thunder Junction. | |||
File:VraskaTrailer.png|Vraska's introduction in the ''[[Outlaws of Thunder Junction]]'' trailer. | |||
File:OTJTrailer2.jpg|Vraska in the ''Outlaws of Thunder Junction'' trailer. | |||
File:OTJKeyArt3.png|[[Oko]], Vraska, and [[Rakdos]] rob a train. | |||
File:OkoCrew.png|Oko's crew in the ''Outlaws of Thunder Junction'' trailer. | |||
File:OTJKeyArt2.jpg|''Outlaws of Thunder Junction'' [[key art]] featuring [[Oko]]'s crew. | |||
File:OTJMovieVraska.png|Cast art for MTG-JP April Fools ''Outlaws of Thunder Junction: The Movie''. | |||
File:VraskaBebop1.png|Vraska in the ''Outlaws of Thunder Junction'' x ''[[Wikipedia:Cowboy Bebop|Cowboy Bebop]]'' trailer. | |||
File:VraskaBebop2.png|Vraska in the ''Outlaws of Thunder Junction'' x ''[[Wikipedia:Cowboy Bebop|Cowboy Bebop]]'' trailer. | |||
File:CrewBebop.png|Oko's crew. | |||
File:VraskaBebop3.jpg|{{card|Snakeskin Veil|Promo|PCBB}} by [[Maxilla]]. | |||
File:Vraska MTGA avatar OTJ.png|Vraska, having recovered from compleation, on Thunder Junction [[Magic: The Gathering Arena|MTGA]] avatar. | |||
</gallery> | |||
==Story appearances== | ==Story appearances== | ||
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|{{ArticleArchive|magic-story/the-shadows-of-prahv-part-1|The Shadows of Prahv, Part 1}}|| [[Jenna Helland]]||2012-08-28|| ''[[Return to Ravnica]]''||[[Ravnica]]||[[Branko]], Gebris, Zivan, Vraska, [[Relov]], [[Javy]] | |||
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|{{ArticleArchive|magic-story/the-shadows-of-prahv-part-2|The Shadows of Prahv, Part 2}}||[[Jenna Helland]]||2012-04-09||''[[Return to Ravnica]]''||[[Ravnica]]||[[Relov]], [[Javy]], Zivan, [[Branko]], Vraska | |||
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| {{ArticleArchive| | |{{ArticleArchive|feature/azorius-ten-most-wanted-2012-10-29|The Azorius Ten Most Wanted}}|| [[Jenna Helland]]||2012-10-31||''[[Return to Ravnica]]''||[[Ravnica]]||[[Ritjit]], [[Ruzi|Ruzi and Kuma]], [[Senka]], [[Bori Andon]], [[Krenko]], [[Lazav|Mr. Taz]], [[The Cozen]], [[Damir]], Vraska, [[Massacre Girl]] | ||
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| {{ArticleArchive| | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/gorgon-and-guildpact-2014-03-12|The Gorgon and the Guildpact}} || [[Doug Beyer]] || 2014-03-12 || ''[[Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska]]'' || [[Ravnica]] || [[Jace Beleren]], [[Lavinia]], [[Aurelia]], Linna Stradek, Shann Dilara, Haszin Dycar, Vraska, Milada, Kobrev, Zdenya, Dibor, [[Emmara Tandris]], Kallist, Kavin, [[Garruk Wildspeaker]], [[Isperia]] | ||
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| {{ArticleArchive| | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/pride-kraul-2017-05-31|Pride of the Kraul}} || [[Alison Luhrs]] || 2017-05-31 || ''[[Commander Anthology]]'' || [[Ravnica]] || [[Sobeslav]], [[Mazirek]], Vraska | ||
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| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/ | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/jace-alone-2017-09-06|Jace, Alone}} || [[Alison Luhrs]] & [[Gregg Luben]] || 2017-09-06 || ''[[Ixalan]]'' || [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]] || [[Jace Beleren|Jace]], Vraska | ||
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|{{ArticleArchive|magic-story/ | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/talented-captain-vraska-2017-09-20|The Talented Captain Vraska}} || [[Alison Luhrs]] & [[Gregg Luben]] || 2017-09-20 || ''[[Ixalan]]'' || [[Ravnica]], [[Meditation Plane]], [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]] || Vraska, [[Nicol Bolas]], [[Malcolm]], [[Amelia]], Edgar, Gavven, [[Jace Beleren|Jace]] | ||
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| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/ | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/something-else-entirely-2017-10-04|Something Else Entirely}} || [[Alison Luhrs]] & [[Gregg Luben]] || 2017-10-04 || ''[[Ixalan]]'' || [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]] || [[Jace Beleren|Jace]], [[Amelia]], Kerrigan, [[Breeches]], Vraska, [[Malcolm]], [[Pedron]] | ||
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| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/ | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/race-part-1-2017-10-11|The Race, Part 1}} || [[Alison Luhrs]] & [[Gregg Luben]] || 2017-10-11 || ''[[Ixalan]]'' || [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]] || [[Mavren Fein]], [[Mardia]], Manuel, [[Elenda]], [[Pedron]], [[Vona de Iedo]], [[Jace Beleren|Jace]], Vraska, Edgar, [[Breeches]], [[Malcolm]], [[Huatli]], [[Inti]], [[Teyeuh]], [[Tishana]] | ||
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| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/ | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/race-part-2-2017-10-18|The Race, Part 2}} || [[Alison Luhrs]] & [[Gregg Luben]]|| 2017-10-18 || ''[[Ixalan]]'' || [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]] || Vraska, [[Jace Beleren|Jace]], [[Vona de Iedo]], [[Huatli]], [[Tishana]], [[Amelia]], [[Malcolm]], [[Breeches]], [[Angrath]] | ||
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| | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/flood-2018-01-10|The Flood}} || [[Alison Luhrs]], [[Gregg Luben]] & [[Kelly Digges]] || 2018-01-10 || ''[[Rivals of Ixalan]]'' || [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]], [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]], [[Ravnica]], [[Vryn]] || [[Kumena]], [[Vona]], [[Mavren Fein]], Vraska, [[Jace Beleren|Jace]], [[Tezzeret]], [[Liliana Vess|Liliana]], [[Ranna Beleren]], [[Gav Beleren]], [[Alhammarret]] | ||
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| | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/glimpse-far-side-sun-2018-01-17|Glimpse the Far Side of the Sun}} || [[Alison Luhrs]] & [[Gregg Luben]]|| 2018-01-17 || ''[[Rivals of Ixalan]]'' || [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]], [[Kaldheim (plane)|Kaldheim]] || [[Huatli]], [[Inti]], [[Angrath]], [[Elenda of Garrano|Elenda]], [[Jace Beleren|Jace]], Vraska, [[Zetalpa]], [[Azor]] | ||
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| | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/arbiter-law-left-chaos-his-wake-2018-01-24|The Arbiter of Law Left Chaos in His Wake}} || [[Alison Luhrs]] & [[Gregg Luben]] || 2018-01-24 || ''[[Rivals of Ixalan]]'' || [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]] || [[Huatli]], [[Angrath]], [[Tishana]], [[Kumena]], [[Vona]], [[Mavren Fein]], [[Jace Beleren|Jace]], Vraska, [[Azor]] | ||
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| | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/sabotage-2018-01-31|Sabotage}} || [[Alison Luhrs]] & [[Gregg Luben]]|| 2018-01-31 || ''[[Rivals of Ixalan]]'' || [[Ixalan (plane)|Ixalan]], [[Tarkir]] || [[Ugin]], [[Azor]], [[Nicol Bolas]], [[Jace Beleren|Jace]], Vraska | ||
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| | | {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/deaths-precious-moments-2018-11-07|Death's Precious Moments}} || [[Nicky Drayden]] || 2018-11-07 || ''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' || [[Ravnica]] || [[Bozak]], Razi, [[Mazirek]], Vraska, Ellin, Kuurik, Zegodonis, Limin, Kata, Benzi | ||
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|[https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id= | |[https://web.archive.org/web/20220902175652/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=62dd173373 The Gathering Storm: Chapter Two] || [[Django Wexler]] || 2019-06-12 || ''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]'' || [[Ravnica]] || [[Jarad vod Savo]], [[Storrev]], [[Jarga]], Vraska, [[Mazirek]], [[Xeddick]], [[Kaya Cassir|Kaya]], [[Teysa Karlov]], [[Tomik Vrona]] | ||
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|[https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id= | |[https://web.archive.org/web/20210429053947/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=2de430a9bf The Gathering Storm: Chapter Four] || [[Django Wexler]] || 2019-06-26 || ''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]'' || [[Ravnica]] || [[Ral Zarek]], [[Tomik Vrona]], [[Niv-Mizzet]], Hellas Vitria, [[Lazav]], [[Millena]], Vraska, [[Storrev]], [[Jarga]], [[Izoni]], [[Xeddick]], Gloomplug, [[Emmara Tandris]] (mentioned), [[Borborygmos]] (mentioned), [[Hekara]] | ||
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|[https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id= | |[https://web.archive.org/web/20220813000808/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=c30e7cb7d4 The Gathering Storm: Chapter Six] ||[[Django Wexler]]||2019-07-10||''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]''||[[Ravnica]]||[[Ral Zarek|Ral]], [[Lavinia]], [[Hekara]], Vraska, [[Xeddick]], [[Tomik Vrona]], [[Kaya Cassir|Kaya]] | ||
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|[https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id= | |[https://web.archive.org/web/20220902175653/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=f04ef0245f The Gathering Storm: Chapter Seven] ||[[Django Wexler]]||2019-07-17||''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]''||[[Ravnica]]||[[Kaya Cassir|Kaya]], [[Ral Zarek|Ral]], Vraska, [[Hekara]], Golbet Frezzle, [[Obzedat|the Obzedat]], [[Karlov]] | ||
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|[https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id= | |[https://web.archive.org/web/20230330214116/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=fd2c659d7a The Gathering Storm: Chapter Nine] ||[[Django Wexler]]||2019-08-07||''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]''||[[Ravnica]]||[[Ral Zarek|Ral]], [[Tomik Vrona]], [[Hekara]], [[Lavinia]], [[Kaya Cassir|Kaya]], [[Teysa Karlov]], [[Mazirek]], Vraska, [[Storrev]], [[Nicol Bolas]] | ||
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|[https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=b7318e2d99 The Gathering Storm: Chapter Twenty] || [[Django Wexler]] || 2019-10-23 || ''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]'' || [[Ravnica]] || [[Ral Zarek]], [[Kaya]], [[Hekara]], [[Lavinia]], [[Vraska]], [[Nicol Bolas]], [[ | |[https://web.archive.org/web/20210429053758/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=331efd73d0 The Gathering Storm: Chapter Ten] ||[[Django Wexler]]||2019-08-14||''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]''||[[Ravnica]]||[[Ral Zarek|Ral]], [[Isperia]], [[Dovin Baan|Dovin]], [[Hekara]], [[Borborygmos]], [[Aurelia]], [[Ferzhin]], [[Lazav]], [[Emmara Tandris]], [[Kaya Cassir|Kaya]], [[Teysa Karlov]], Vraska, [[Niv-Mizzet]] | ||
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20220520133040/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=ccb3c2685c The Gathering Storm: Chapter Thirteen] ||[[Django Wexler]]||2019-09-04||''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]''||[[Ravnica]]||Vraska, [[Xeddick]], [[Hekara]], [[Kaya Cassir|Kaya]], [[Tomik Vrona]], [[Teysa Karlov]], [[Ral Zarek|Ral]], [[Aurelia]], [[Dovin Baan|Dovin]] | |||
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20211128055248/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=95ad516ac6 The Gathering Storm: Chapter Fourteen] ||[[Django Wexler]]||2019-09-11||''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]''||[[Ravnica]]|| Vraska, [[Mazirek]], [[Xeddick]], [[Ral Zarek|Ral]], [[Kaya Cassir|Kaya]], [[Aurelia]] | |||
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20210429131201/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=d0a25b1715 The Gathering Storm: Chapter Sixteen] ||[[Django Wexler]]||2019-09-25||''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]''||[[Ravnica]], Unknown plane||[[Ral Zarek|Ral]], [[Tomik Vrona]], [[Nicol Bolas]], Vraska, [[Mazirek]], [[Storrev]] | |||
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20230315115021/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=0d75c9223b The Gathering Storm: Chapter Eighteen] ||[[Django Wexler]]||2019-10-09||''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]'' ||[[Ravnica]]||[[Ral Zarek|Ral]], [[Niv-Mizzet]], Vraska, [[Storrev]], [[Nicol Bolas]] | |||
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20210429053757/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=989fe24b08 The Gathering Storm: Chapter Nineteen] ||[[Django Wexler]]||2019-10-16||''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]''||[[Ravnica]]||[[Ral Zarek|Ral]], [[Kaya Cassir|Kaya]], [[Hekara]], Panjandrum, [[Lavinia]], Vraska | |||
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20220516194142/https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=671981442a09c23d267bd602b&id=b7318e2d99 The Gathering Storm: Chapter Twenty] ||[[Django Wexler]]||2019-10-23||''[[Guilds of Ravnica]]'' / ''[[Ravnica Allegiance]]''||[[Ravnica]]||[[Ral Zarek|Ral]], [[Kaya Cassir|Kaya]], [[Hekara]], [[Lavinia]], Vraska, [[Nicol Bolas]], [[Mazirek]], [[Storrev]], Brutus, [[Tezzeret]], [[Niv-Mizzet]] | |||
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|{{ArticleArchive|magic-story/one-and-the-same|Ravnica - One and the Same}}||[[Alison Lührs]]||2023-03-24||''[[March of the Machine]]''||[[Ravnica]] || Vraska, [[Ral Zarek]], [[Jace Beleren]], [[Tomik Vrona]], [[Sisters of Stone Death|Ludmilla]] | |||
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==In-game references== | ==In-game references== | ||
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*<c>Vraska | *<c>Vraska, Betrayal's Sting</c> | ||
*<c>Vraska, Golgari Queen</c> | |||
*<c>Vraska, Regal Gorgon</c> | *<c>Vraska, Regal Gorgon</c> | ||
*<c>Vraska, Relic Seeker</c> | *<c>Vraska, Relic Seeker</c> | ||
*<c>Vraska, Scheming Gorgon</c> | *<c>Vraska, Scheming Gorgon</c> | ||
*<c>Vraska, Swarm's Eminence</c> | *<c>Vraska, Swarm's Eminence</c> | ||
*<c>Vraska, the Silencer</c> | |||
*<c>Vraska the Unseen</c> | |||
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*<c>Attendant of Vraska</c> | *<c>Attendant of Vraska</c> | ||
*<c>Vraska Joins Up</c> | |||
*<c>Vraska's Conquistador</c> | *<c>Vraska's Conquistador</c> | ||
*<c>Vraska's Contempt</c> | *<c>Vraska's Contempt</c> | ||
*<c>Vraska's Fall</c> | |||
*<c>Vraska's Finisher</c> | *<c>Vraska's Finisher</c> | ||
*<c>Vraska's Scorn</c> | *<c>Vraska's Scorn</c> | ||
*<c>Vraska's Stoneglare</c> | *<c>Vraska's Stoneglare</c> | ||
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*<c>Annihilating Glare</c> | |||
{{ | *{{card|Assassin's Trophy|Double Masters 2022|2X2|#=372}} | ||
*<c>Assemble the Team</c> | |||
*<c>Betrayal at the Vault</c> | |||
*<c>Cathartic Operation</c>{{ref|Alchemy: Thunder Junction|†}} | |||
*<c>Contentious Plan</c> | *<c>Contentious Plan</c> | ||
*<c>Costly Plunder</c> | *<c>Costly Plunder</c> | ||
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*<c>Induced Amnesia</c> | *<c>Induced Amnesia</c> | ||
*<c>Killing Glare</c> | *<c>Killing Glare</c> | ||
*{{card|Loot, the Key to Everything|The Big Score|BIG|#=51}} | |||
*<c>Mastermind's Acquisition</c> | *<c>Mastermind's Acquisition</c> | ||
*<c>Night's Whisper</c> | *<c>Night's Whisper</c> | ||
*{{card|Norn's Decree||ONC}} | |||
*{{card|Omenpath Journey|The Big Score|BIG|#=18}} | |||
*{{card|Omenpath Journey|The Big Score|BIG|#=48}} | |||
*<c>Perilous Voyage</c> | *<c>Perilous Voyage</c> | ||
*{{card|Phyrexian Arena|Phyrexia: All Will Be One|ONE}} | |||
*<c>Plan the Heist</c> | |||
*<c>Rakish Crew</c> | |||
*{{card|Shelldock Isle||SLD|#=230}} | |||
*<c>Silent Extraction</c>{{ref|Alchemy: Thunder Junction|†}} | |||
*<c>Tamiyo Meets the Story Circle</c> | |||
*<c>Undercity Uprising</c> | *<c>Undercity Uprising</c> | ||
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*<c>Assassin’s Trophy</c> | *<c>Assassin’s Trophy</c> | ||
*{{card|Consume Strength|Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska}} | |||
*<c>Deathsprout</c> | *<c>Deathsprout</c> | ||
*<c>Dovin's Acuity</c> | *<c>Dovin's Acuity</c> | ||
*<c>Explosive Impact</c> | *<c>Explosive Impact</c> | ||
*<c>Erstwhile Trooper</c> | *<c>Erstwhile Trooper</c> | ||
*<c>Get the Point</c> | |||
*{{card|Golgari Guildgate|Guilds of Ravnica|#=248}} | *{{card|Golgari Guildgate|Guilds of Ravnica|#=248}} | ||
*<c>Kraul Raider</c> | *<c>Kraul Raider</c> | ||
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*<c>Talisman of Resilience</c> | *<c>Talisman of Resilience</c> | ||
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:{{note|Alchemy: Thunder Junction|†}} Scryfall does not record flavor text for digital cards. See [[Alchemy: Thunder Junction/Flavor text]]. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist}} | {{Reflist}} | ||
{{Ixalan|characters|state=collapsed}} | |||
{{Ravnica|guildmasters|state=collapsed}} | |||
{{Thunder Junction|characters}} | |||
[[Category:Thunder Junction characters]] | |||
{{Planeswalker|types}} | {{Planeswalker|types}} | ||
[[Category:Gorgons]] | [[Category:Gorgons]] | ||
[[Category:Assassins]] | |||
[[Category:Pirates]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 05:36, 4 July 2024
| Vraska | |
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[[File:{{#setmainimage:Vraska.jpg}}|250px]] | |
| Details | |
| Race |
Gorgon Formerly Planeswalker Briefly Phyrexian |
| Birthplace | Old Rav, Undercity, Ravnica |
| Lifetime |
Compleated 4562 Uncompleated 4562 |
| Born | c. 4523 AR (~10,040 ZC) |
| Children | Loot (adopted) |
| Colors | |
Center:   [1] | |
| Sources | |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One | |
- For other uses, see The Silencer.
Vraska (Phyrexian: lreLhFD, IPA: [vraskəʔ]) is a black and green-aligned gorgon assassin and former planeswalker from Ravnica. She was part of a mercenary organization of assassins known as the Ochran.[2][3] Later she became the Queen of the Golgari Swarm. On Ixalan, she is known as Captain Vraska.[3] She was compleated for a period during the events of Phyrexia: All Will Be One until the defeat of Elesh Norn, after which she was un-compleated but lost her spark in the Desparkening.
Appearance and characteristics
Vraska is a striking, green-scaled woman with long, black snake-like hair tendrils.[4] She has narrow features and bright yellow eyes with crow's feet at the corners.[5] Her eyes shine golden when she uses her power to turn her victims to stone. Like all gorgons, she likes to collect trophies.[6] Fiercely independent from a hostile upbringing, she took pride in her spark, represented through her trophies of interplanar trinkets. On Bloomburrow, Vraska appears as a lizardfolk with green and black scales.[7]
After her compleation, Vraska grew a long, curved, scorpion-like barbed tail.[8] Her tendrils hardened to wire and coils.[9] After being healed from phyresis, she no longer bears these mutations but is heavily scarred where the metal and oil were excised from her body.[4][10]
Vraska used to be a sadistic and efficient killer, an assassin of the Ochran. She resented the order of the Azorius, thanks to her upbringing, and the world around her. To fulfill her ambitions of becoming guildmaster and restore equality within the Golgari, she aligned herself with Nicol Bolas. Caring not for her actions, she only began to see that there was still something worth cherishing within life upon being trapped on Ixalan alongside Jace Beleren. At first, attempting to manipulate Jace, she soon found herself admiring his honesty and his unbiased view of the world around him. By the time their journey came to an end, she looked back on her past actions with a different view and found herself longing for the mind mage's companionship.
After the War of the Spark, she more openly works with others, even showing a moment of affection by sharing a kiss with Jace.
Vraska is primarily centered in black and secondary in green. When she planeswalks, she fades into shadow.[11]
History
Persecuted
Vraska's life had been fairly simple in the Undercity, on the fringes of the Golgari Swarm.[12] However, on a world such as Ravnica, even a simple life can be destroyed by politics.
Vraska was seventeen when the Azorius Senate decided that the Golgari had grown too powerful, too numerous, and needed to be pushed out of certain areas they'd claimed.[13][9] Isperia, then a high-ranking Azorius judge, issued a writ of a mass arrest for any people caught bearing allegiance to the Golgari.[14] Vraska was amongst those apprehended, and they were taken to an Azorius detention compound, the place where all victims of the writ had been imprisoned. Vraska was kept blindfolded with broken ribs in standing water for weeks, only able to listen as another gorgon, Ludmilla, was blinded and killed.[9] The cells quickly filled beyond capacity, and, vastly outnumbered by their prisoners, the Azorius guards were swept under the tide of a prison riot. These events became known as the Duskend Purges.[15] Vraska and her fellow inmates found themselves quickly ferried away to a secure location while much of the riot continued, but in the tight confines of the basement, they were trapped. Hours passed and tensions grew thick, the guards becoming nervous and abusive. Soon enough, the prisoners had taken enough from their callous jailors.
Escape
Many of the Golgari captives worked together and freed Vraska, but realizing the threat, the guards quickly turned their attention to her. She was severely beaten and lay near death when her planeswalker's spark ignited, threw her away from the world she knew.[13] She woke up in a swamp on a dark plane, with half her ribs broken and no idea where she was. She lay in the darkness, unable to understand what had happened, and much time passed before she learned to control her abilities.[16]
Assassin
Two years after her disappearance, she returned to Ravnica. In her travels, she had learned an important lesson, a creed by which to live her life. "A person should die the death they deserve." She began gathering followers in her quest to bring justice to those she felt deserved her retribution. Many died in her name, all deaths thematically linked to how they lived their lives. Amongst her many victims and those of her followers, there was always a special place for the Azorius. Slowly, she sought justice against those who had a hand in the riot, the guards, the arbiters, and any who were connected to it in any way.
In between her missions of bloody vengeance, she has become something of a shadowy urban legend amongst the Golgari. She only surfaces when something stirs her interest, the exact reasoning a mystery to all involved. She chooses her missions carefully and stays well away from guild politics. Her activities have begun to gain notoriety even outside the undercity and her targets die swiftly once she commits herself. After her mission is completed, she disappears back into the aether, taking her expertise to other planes to gain experience and add to her ever-growing collection of trophies.[17]
Grander plans
Vraska attempted to force Jace Beleren into her service. She gathered citizens of Ravnica whose names would be known only to a planeswalker and arranged them to spell Jace's name. It forced him into a confrontation with the assassin and she used various threats and attempts at coercion to bring him under her sway. Jace ultimately escaped her clutches and shone a light onto her existence, possibly undoing everything she'd tried to accomplish. It is unclear if she can ever return to the shadows now.[18] At this time, she contacted the disenfranchised among the Golgari, to rally them against Jarad and his elves. She found willing allies in the Kraul, who delved into darker necromancies to unearth the Erstwhile in their hidden catacombs beneath the Undercity.[2]
Ixalan
An agent of Bolas placed a note in the House of Ochran that invited Vraska to the Meditation Plane. Here, Nicol Bolas offered to make her the guildmaster of the Golgari and bring those to justice who preyed on the downtrodden, if she would travel to Ixalan and deliver the item stored in the Golden City of Orazca to one of his agents. To aid her in this, Bolas gifted Vraska with a Thaumatic Compass and the knowledge of sailing.
On Ixalan, Vraska posed as a member of the Brazen Coalition, serving Lord Nicolas. Assembling her crew and her ship named Belligerent, she turned out to be a very democratic leader, which earned her a great deal of respect and admiration from her crew.[12]
Guided by the compass, her ship found the shipwrecked Jace in the sea.[19] Seeing that he had no memory of who he was, she spared him. Using his powers as an illusionist, she plundered ships of the Legion of Dusk.[3] Slowly, Vraska and Jace began to develop a new relationship, based on a sense of respect and attraction.[20][21] After The Golden City revealed itself, Vraska and Jace fell in its churning waters. To Vraska's horror, the shock caused Jace's memories to return, his telepathic powers causing her to witness every single memory that returned to him. Vraska was filled with fear that Jace's memories would reignite their enmity, but Jace instead forgave Vraska for her past transgressions against him.[22][23] Their friendship even stronger, they struggled on to Orazca, where they unexpectedly were confronted by a legend of their own home plane: Azor, the Lawbringer.[24] Vraska witnessed how Jace used his power as the Living Guildpact to banish the Sphinx to Useless Island.[25]
Realizing that Nicol Bolas would learn about her love for Jace if he would read her mind, Vraska asked Jace to remove all her memories of him. Jace implanted a trigger to reinstall her memories at the right moment, planning to defeat Bolas together.[26] After this, Vraska summoned Tezzeret, who removed the Immortal Sun from the plane, using his Planar Bridge. Having removed the planar barrier, Vraska planeswalked away.[26]
In Bolas' Meditation Plane, the dragon read her mind and witnessed the false memory created by Jace, in which Vraska had found Azor and turned him, along with all her challengers, into gold using the power of the Sun. Pleased, the dragon called her "Guildleader Vraska" and rewarded her with the information where Jarad was to be found. As Vraska set out to petrify Jarad, she couldn't help but feel that both she and Bolas missed something very important during their meeting.[27]
Guildmaster
Back on Ravnica, Vraska killed Jarad and established herself as guildmaster.[28][29] She was helped by the Erstwhile (which are more durable and intelligent than regular Golgari rot zombies), and the Kraul. Meanwhile, The Devkarin clade was bitter about this and wanted the current Matka, Izoni to take over.
The kraul Xeddick, who was a telepath, found out about Jace's mind block and removed it at her request.[6] She now remembered Ixalan, her friendship with Jace, and her newfound righteousness. She also realized that Bolas was planning to invade Ravnica with his Eternal army, and decided to attend the guild summit.[15] To prove herself, she pledged her guild to attack the Orzhov Syndicate, to change its leadership. With Ral Zarek and the Rakdos emissary Hekara she led an army of rot zombies, trolls, and giant insects into Orzhova as a distraction, allowing Kaya to kill the Obzedat.[30]
Though she had been sincere when she had approached Ral Zarek and Kaya to volunteer her services, she ultimately betrayed them.[31] This happened after she was met by a Devkarin elf who turned out to be possessed by Bolas.[32] Bolas noted that Vraska has deviated from her assigned role by helping Ral Zarek. He threatened to turn the Erstwhile against the Golgari, creating death and chaos for her people. Bolas then forced her to make a choice, for or against him. While making the choice, Vraska felt guilty toward her friend Jace.
Vraska killed Isperia after the guild summit as payback for the suffering of her youth. After that, she continued to fight for Bolas because she was worried that she would be deposed as Golgari's guildmaster without his help. During a confrontation with Ral Zarek and Aurelia, she only managed to escape at the cost of Xeddick's life.[33] Later, Bolas orders Vraska to kill Ral after his great machine fails and to disrupt his backup plan.[34]
Vraska's betrayal led to the Rakdos emissary Hekara being killed by a Bolas-possessed Lavinia. In the same fight, Vraska proved no match for the fully-powered Ral Zarek and barely escaped getting killed by planeswalking away.[35]
War of the Spark
Vraska had planeswalked to Ixalan to escape from being killed by Ral Zarek for betraying their group. As a result, she was not present on Ravnica when Bolas' invasion began. However, she worried that the Golgari Swarm would fall apart without her, and she eventually decided to return to Ravnica out of concern for her people.
Upon returning home, she encountered Ral and Kaya in the Undercity, where they were trying to convince the other Golgari leaders to support their cause.[36] Despite Ral and Kaya's suspicion of the gorgon, Vraska united the Golgari once again and pledged the guild to the fight against Bolas. With the help of Ajani and his team of planeswalkers, they were able to evacuate many civilians to the tunnels beneath the city, where they would be safe from the Dreadhorde.
After that, Vraska, Ral, Kaya, Teyo, and Araithia journeyed to Rix Maadi to negotiate with Rakdos.[37] The demon lord was initially hostile due to the death of his emissary Hekara, and the blood witch Exava ordered the group to leave. However, the Orzhov representative Tomik showed up with Hekara's corpse, and the Rakdos cultists resurrected Hekara as a blood witch. After defeating Exava in a fight, Hekara used her newfound authority as a blood witch to lead the Rakdos against Bolas.
Once all ten guilds were on board, Nissa performed a ritual at the ruins of the Guildpact Chamber: with the help of a representative from each guild, she was able to repair the leylines that empowered the Living Guildpact (which had been disrupted when Bolas destroyed the Guildpact Chamber by opening his portal there). Vraska served as the representative for the Golgari Swarm.[37] Using a device that Niv-Mizzet had constructed before his death to preserve his consciousness, they were able to resurrect Niv and grant the power of the Living Guildpact to him. Niv came back to life just in time to save the others from the God-Eternal Kefnet: using his newfound power, Niv was able to completely incinerate Kefnet in a torrent of flame, although the strain of channeling enough energy to kill a god caused him to fall unconscious.
Later, Jace reunited with Vraska. He tried to restore her memories, only to find that they'd already been restored by Xeddick. Vraska confessed that even though she was fully aware of the threat Bolas posed, she still murdered Isperia in a fit of rage, despite knowing that it would help further Bolas' plans. Jace forgave her and promised to get together with her if they made it out of the war alive.[38]
Vraska survived the battle and was present during the Planewide Celebration that followed, where she and Jace finally shared a kiss. Later, she was confronted by Niv-Mizzet and the other guildmasters (with Tomik now representing the Orzhov Syndicate in Kaya's place). They decided to spare the planeswalkers who formerly worked with Bolas but defected before the battle, on the condition that they make amends by hunting down the planeswalkers who stayed loyal to Bolas or defected too late. As her penance, Vraska was assigned the task of capturing Dovin Baan.[38]
Forsaken
By command of the new Living Guildpact, who feared his interference, Jace had to be kept out of the loop concerning the assignment. Vraska's lying, and the ultimate choice for the Golgari, resulted in them growing apart again.
Although Vraska was still guildmaster of the Golgari Swarm, during her absence, her position was contested. The elf shaman Cevraya, the Devkarin Izoni, the troll Varolz, the kraul Azdomas, and the Erstwhile leader Storrev all claimed to have a right to the title.[36]
After being blinded by Lazav, Dovin Baan planeswalked to his home on Kaladesh but soon returned to his safe house on Ravnica.[11] There he was discovered by Vraska, and in exchange for his life, Baan offered to help her retain control over the Golgari. Vraska accepted the offer and Baan helped her frame Izoni for a crime that she didn't commit. Together they also plotted to fake Baan's death. Using a statue replica of himself, a fight was staged in Zinara on Regatha with Chandra Nalaar being an unsuspecting accomplice. During the fight, Vraska severed Baan's right hand to use as proof of a kill while Chandra believed she had delivered the killing blow. The plan succeeded and Baan returned to Ravnica, only to be assassinated by Atkos Tarr who had been sent by Lazav in his plans to blackmail Vraska.
Vraska is now in control of the Golgari again, but in turn, is controlled by Lazav who will make her failure to kill Baan known to the Living Guildpact if she doesn't comply with his wishes.
Assault on New Phyrexia
Vraska joined with Jace, the Gatewatch, and other assembled planeswalkers to support the Mirrans' efforts against Elesh Norn on New Phyrexia.[39] However, when they traveled to New Phyrexia, she was caught by the Phyrexians and forced to fight in Sheoldred's Coliseum.[8]
When her teammates reached Vraska, they found she was heavily wounded and already infected with Phyresis. Too late to save her, Jace chose to stay behind with her and relive their happy moments on Ravnica in their minds. Lingering too long, Vraska succumbed to the Phyrexian influence and infected Jace in turn. Now compleated, Vraska's body became fully altered. Metallic markings stretch across her face and upper body, her snake-like hair has transformed into segmented cables with sharp edges, her fingers grew longer and now look skeletal, and her entire lower body has become long and serpentine, connected to a long tail ending with a scorpion-like stinger that injects glistening oil.[8]
Phyrexian Invasion
Vraska led the invasion of Ravnica, using the opportunity to enact a personal vengeance for the Azorius's imprisonment of the Golgari. Many of the Golgari submitted to compleation given her status as guildmaster. As retribution for Ludmilla's blinding during the Duskend Purges, she instructed her forces to blind the Ravnicans, who then scrabbled upon the glistening oil-slicked streets. However, Jace's mental partition persisted and her pre-compleation self still bubbled through with emotions and nostalgia, subconsciously leading her through her and Jace's Ravnican living spaces.[9]
Ral Zarek was able to disable Vraska's body with a sonic device that neutralized glistening oil, functionally killing the active consciousness of Vraska's compleated self.[9] Jace, having suppressed the psychosis of phyresis, arrived to tend to Vraska, giving her mind a psychic defense to the oil and planeswalking her away to Vryn.[5] Most believed her dead at this point, despite no body of proof.[40]
Jace had brought Vraska to his childhood home.[41] Fortunately, his mother Ranna was a healer who had been treating those afflicted with phyresis during the invasion. Using surgical implements and phoenix feathers, she burned most of the oil away and regenerated new tissue to replace what Vraska had lost to Ral's attack. During their healing process, Vraska acquainted herself with Ranna, who had believed Jace was dead. She indirectly suggested that her son and Vraska should get married.
A short while after the war's end, Vraska and Jace noticed that Omenpaths had begun opening on Vryn.[41] Feeling certain that no good could come of this change, they plotted a rebirth of the Multiverse to end the multiversal conflicts that had scarred them. Jace knew about an ancient vault on the plane of Thunder Junction that could be helpful to their goals. Some months after their arrival on Vryn, they planned to set off in pursuit of the vault's treasure, but Vraska realized that she had lost her planeswalker's spark. They recognized that they needed additional backup and changed their plans.
While Jace made preparations on Ravnica and Eldraine, Vraska found an Omenpath from Vryn to Ixalan and traveled there to recruit Malcolm and Breeches into their plan.[41] They were overjoyed to see her alive and enthusiastically accepted. Finally, Jace located an Omenpath to Thunder Junction, and they put their plan into motion.
Thunder Junction
Upon arrival, Jace disguised himself as Ashiok and hired Oko to put together a team of outlaws. Vraska joined this team to keep an eye on the untrustworthy faerie.[42] While she had an encounter with Ral Zarek outside the Sterling Company headquarters, there was not much time for questioning before Rakdos punched him across the sands.[4] She questioned accepting Kellan's sudden betrayal in favor of his father Oko, who invoked his parental "responsibility" to take him in.
Following the successful but almost disastrous mission to capture the Outcaster Nolan, Oko’s crew regrouped.[43] Jace scoured Nolan's mind and found that the key in their possession was one of six, but the infamous dragon outlaw Akul held the other five.[44] In addition, Jace discovered that a map to Tarnation was buried in Thief’s Folly, a mission for which Gisa Cecani and Geralf Cecani gladly accepted and returned with the map in hand. Vraska traveled to Tarnation with Oko, Kellan, and Annie Flash as they attempted to locate Akul and steal the other keys. After an intense bar fight, Oko’s team was captured and brought before Akul who took Oko’s key which turned out to be the sixth piece of a single key. Facing torture and execution, Kellan challenged Akul to a duel, who reluctantly accepted to avoid losing face in front of the Hellspurs.
Vraska, Oko, and Annie were bound and brought to observe Kellan’s duel with Akul.[10] Outmatched and close to defeat, Kellan’s innate powers sprang to life, which placed Akul in a trance. Kellan attempted to strangle Akul, but his magic wavered at the thought of killing another being. Akul regained his senses and quickly overpowered Kellan, but before landing the killing blow; he was struck by thunder as Ral Zarek arrived with Sterling mercenaries, allowing Kellan to retreat and sending Tarnation into chaos. Concealed within Oko’s bone armor, Tinybones reassembled and unlocked their chains, allowing Vraska to turn their remaining captors to stone. Oko called out to Kellan for the key, which Akul had unknowingly lost in the mayhem. Kellan tossed the key to his father and attempted to join their escape but was knocked unconscious by a Sterling guard.
Annie pressed the others to return for Kellan in a nearby saloon, but Vraska and Oko resisted.[10] Oko revealed that he had anticipated their capture and secretly shared the location of Tarnation with Bertram Graywater. Although Kellan’s heroics were unexpected, Oko had counted on the arrival of the Sterling Company. Vraska expressed her displeasure for not having been in on the plan, and despite Annie’s desire to rescue Kellan, the group set out to unlock Maag Taranau before Akul and the Hellspurs caught up with them.
Jace, as Ashiok, met the gang at the vault and helped secure the key from Kellan, who had almost taken it from Oko.[45] Jace opened the vault and claimed their prize: within the vault was an infant creature that had been in stasis for millennia. Oko realized he had been tricked, and Vraska attempted to petrify him, but he escaped. After that, Jace and Vraska disappeared with their prize, Loot. After getting to safety, they discovered the creature's immense power: it could visualize a map of every planar connection across the Multiverse. They celebrated their victory that night and took an Omenpath to another plane the next morning.
Bloomburrow
Vraska, Jace, and Loot traveled to Bloomburrow.[7] The plane's magic caused Vraska to appear as a lizardfolk.
Trivia
- In the video game Magic: The Gathering Arena, Vraska is voiced by Katy Townsend.[46]
- Vraska appears in the Phyrexia: All Will Be One trailer.[47]
- Through her relationship with Jace, it's implied that gorgons and humans are reproductively isolated.[41]
Artifacts acquired
- Vraska received the Thaumatic Compass from Bolas, which she used to find the Immortal Sun on Ixalan. The compass is dull silver, a series of stacks of circles and etchings, with one long point extending from an empty ring on its side.[9] She remains in possession of the compass after returning to Ravnica.
- On Ixalan, Vraska obtains and uses a cutlass which she later takes to Ravnica.[3]
- Collecting keepsakes from her travels, she has a Locthwain banner, a Theran pot, a Kaldheimr drinking horn, and a Segovian chariot in her Ravnican apartment.[9]
Planeswalkers met
- Ajani Goldmane
- Angrath
- Arlinn Kord[48] (non-canon)
- Azor
- Basri Ket[48] (non-canon)
- Chandra Nalaar
- Dovin Baan
- Elspeth Tirel[39]
- Garruk[49] (non-canon)
- Huatli
- Jace Beleren
- Jaya Ballard
- Jiang Yanggu
- Kaito Shizuki[39]
- Karn
- Kaya Cassir[11]
- Koth of the Hammer[8]
- Kiora
- Liliana Vess[11][48]
- Lukka[39]
- Mu Yanling
- Nahiri[39]
- Nicol Bolas
- Niko Aris[50] (non-canon)
- Nissa Revane
- Oko[4]
- Ral Zarek
- Rowan Kenrith[49] (non-canon)
- Saheeli Rai
- Samut
- Tamiyo
- Teferi Akosa
- Teyo Verada
- Tezzeret
- Tibalt[49] (non-canon)
- Tyvar Kell[39]
- Vivien Reid[11]
- The Wanderer[39]
- Will Kenrith[49] (non-canon)
- Wrenn[39]
Planes visited
Gallery
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In her youth, Vraska was an assassin under the command of the Golgari.
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“I have seen things that would reduce a weaker person to blubbering and raving. Want to hear about them?”
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Vraska in Ixalan key art.
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Vraska in the Ixalan manga.
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In exchange for the leadership of the Golgari Swarm, Vraska must seek out and deliver the Immortal Sun to Nicol Bolas.
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“They say nothing lasts forever. I say everything lasts forever, just not in the form you may be accustomed to.”
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Upon returning to Ravnica, Vraska begins her revenge against those who hurt her.
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Vraska allows Jace to seal some of her memories so Bolas doesn't discover their plans.
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Vraska in the Guilds of Ravnica manga.
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Vraska's original appearance before becoming a phyrexian.
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After resolving her internal conflicts, Vraska decides that the Golgari would fight against Bolas.
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Jace and Vraska reunite.
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Jace attempts to rescue Vraska from Sheoldred's Coliseum.
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Vraska and Jace.
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Magic Boom! comic cover featuring Vraska.
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Magic: The Gathering Arena avatar.
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Compleat Vraska Arena avatar.
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Vraska trying to fend off Phyrexians in Sheoldred's arena.
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Outlaws of Thunder Junction key art featuring Oko's crew by Lie Setiawan.
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Oko's crew
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Oko's crew.
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Wanted poster from Thunder Junction.
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Vraska's introduction in the Outlaws of Thunder Junction trailer.
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Vraska in the Outlaws of Thunder Junction trailer.
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Vraska in the Outlaws of Thunder Junction x Cowboy Bebop trailer.
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Oko's crew.
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Snakeskin Veil (Promo) by Maxilla.
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Vraska, having recovered from compleation, on Thunder Junction MTGA avatar.
Story appearances
In-game references
- Represented in:
- Associated cards:
- Depicted in:
- Annihilating Glare
- Assassin's Trophy (Double Masters 2022, #372)
- Assemble the Team
- Betrayal at the Vault
- Cathartic Operation†
- Contentious Plan
- Costly Plunder
- Finality
- Golden Demise
- Induced Amnesia
- Killing Glare
- Loot, the Key to Everything (The Big Score, #51)
- Mastermind's Acquisition
- Night's Whisper
- Norn's Decree
- Omenpath Journey (The Big Score, #18)
- Omenpath Journey (The Big Score, #48)
- Perilous Voyage
- Phyrexian Arena (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
- Plan the Heist
- Rakish Crew
- Shelldock Isle
- Silent Extraction†
- Tamiyo Meets the Story Circle
- Undercity Uprising
- Quoted or referred to:
- Assassin’s Trophy
- Consume Strength (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
- Deathsprout
- Dovin's Acuity
- Explosive Impact
- Erstwhile Trooper
- Get the Point
- Golgari Guildgate (Guilds of Ravnica, #248)
- Kraul Raider
- Nekrataal (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
- Overgrown Tomb (Guilds of Ravnica)
- Putrid Leech (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
- Pulse Tracker (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
- River's Rebuke
- Talisman of Resilience
- ^† Scryfall does not record flavor text for digital cards. See Alchemy: Thunder Junction/Flavor text.
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- ↑ Jed MacKay (2023). Magic. Iss 22. Boom!
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