Who is Vraska? | Magic Arcanum 

vraska, golgari bae

Jace seems to have a black mana thing

Vraska... HA! She will tremble at the power of my mighty intellect!

If I remember correctly, she wasn't even a member of the Golgari guild when the Azorius busted the district she lived in. They racially profiled her because the Golgari had a lot of gorgons. I know that she acquired her philosophy of giving the death deserved from someone she met in her planeswalking travels, and it's illustrated in how she used the assassins she allied with to kill the Azorius guildmembers responsible for the Golgari bust. (The one who wrote the law was bled out by having said law carved into his skin, the guy who pushed it to attain figurehead status was turned to stone to act as a public figurehead statue etc...) it was after these events that Jace wins the Implicit Maze and she reaches out to him. The development of her character throughout Ixalan is great and gives some redemption to the rewrite on Jace's character back in Origins. I'm curious how things will turn out when the (random) Bolas war begins and Jace reawakens those memories.

It's pretty hard to make a character seem this ruthless and caring all at the same time. I agree, Vraska is awesome!!

I love that you talk about the history of the lore in the context of how lore was presented...if that makes any sense. Getting back into MTG after over a decade, it's easy to find out the lore. However it's not so easy to know the history of how the lore was presented to the audience. I always thought she was a big player in the Ravnica blocks from the beginning.

All Vraska cards are my favorite Vraska card because Vraska is bae and is the best character in Magic.

I said it once and I'll say it again. Mr. Gomez, you are an amazing storyteller.

Vraska the Unseen was the card that made me fall in love with the character. She looks so badass and deadly on it :)

More videos like this please! I love the TLDR versions of mtg lore.

Vraska's your fave Planeswalker? Ah...I see you're a man of culture as well lmao

can you pls do a video about our beloved homuculus fblthp

damn Jace is into some freaky stuff. kinda jealous though...

Vraska is my favourite homestuck character

Thanks a lot for this whole series, Ryan! This specific video about Vraksa inspired me to write a short orchestral symphony based on her story. :)

I knew nothing about her, but always loved her cards. Thanks for the quick rundown of her history!

I really like the Relic seeker card. Something about my favorite plainswalker on the bow of the ship as the pirates of the Caribbean theme song plays in my head every time I see it really seals the deal.

Thanks so much for doing this, I love the lore. Subscribed and will be going through all these. Big thanks, sir!

These are the only videos from this channel I watch. More content like this please! Subbed

It’s really cool how you can see the story through the art

Great video! Can't wait to see more lore! Also my favorite "Vraska" card is Nights Whisper, fair card draw, cool art.

Man I love these videos don’t ever stop them.

my love for this game just grows with these vids!

Hey, this guy is a great presenter of magic lore. Great job dude, looking forward to more videos!

Almost watched all your videos now! You are a great storyteller! I can remember all those intriguing backstories of the cards all the way back since the Rath cycle. Those starter decks still had those story books in them :)! Keep those stories coming; theres so many to tell! Cant wait for the awesome stories of the Weatherlight crew!

I love the relic seeker art sheerly because of the detail and how dark yet not dark it looks

Absolutely loved this video. would love to see more origin stories done this well. great job

Subbed, I like how you break down your explanations for the stories.

I returned only a few weeks ago to magic, and even though I hated playing green in the past, golgari with Vraska is so much fun to play. Love my queen!

7:00 missed the opportunity to show the cards on screen, but time may have been to short to appreciate them fully. Thanks a lot for your videos Ryan!

o man how did i miss these they are so great

Theres only one was to defeat Bolas... Jace is going to have to toke those feelings from Vraska and implant them into Nicol Bolas. They Bolas is in love with Jace and they get married, with Emrakul as best man! New set: Marriage over Innistrad!

Vraska the unseen was the first ever planeswalker I used. I started magic playing golgari but never followed up on it until now. I’m playing Golgari Midrange and so far it’s an amazing deck. Playing both Varaska relic seeker and golgari Queen is a blast. She’s probably my second favorite planeswalker, just behind Elspeth. I can’t wait for my stories about her and where she ends up in all of this.

I’m so excited for the guilds of ravnica novel!

Vraska's Contempt, for sure. Not only is the art beautiful but it came along just in time to deal with The Scarab God and stop me from rage quitting Magic.

Vraska, Golgari Queen is honestly the most enjoyable card to play that I've seen. Nothing is better than winning with 1 health left against a max hp enemy.

Love that story telling about the magic lore!

WOW! Great job!

4:05 is my favorite Vraska card probably, because I have her and I got her in the prerelease. She was one of the winconditions that I had (the other one was my promo Immortal Sun)

4 yr ago Ryan didn’t know she would get completed.

Whenever I vraksa contempt a vraska planeswalker I cry a little on the inside ...

Favorite Vraska card? Easy: Vraska, Golgari Queen. Immediately grabbed a playset when it came out and I'm now glad it's a standard staple.

Awesome series!!!

These videos are pretty cool. I would like to see one of Niv-Mizzet! :)

I love learning all this lore! I would love to hear about the kamigawa lore

I wanna see vids on Ajani, Elspeth, and Tezzeret. Great content. Please keep it going. 👍

Great video! Would love to see one for every walker eventually!

Love the videos, keep 'em coming!

I just started playing Magic with Core Set 2019. Vraska, Golgari Queen is my first Planeswalker I've gotten.

Vraska is my favorite planeswalker! I'm pretty new but I already own all but one of her different planeswalkers cards!

I got the scheming Gorgon precon and I gotta say the Planeswalker card fits her leadership role pretty well

She is my first oathbreaker deck with evolution charm as the signature spell.

i just got into MTG for the first time (im 34) and Vraska is my first deck. golgari are badass

I especially love that her ultimate is always some form of "if you dont block you die", kill tokens, 1 health, her newest ult. feels very assassination.

Now that’s a character arc!!

Great video, thanks for sharing! Has anyone ever told you that you remind them of Ross Merriam from Star City Games? Haha

My like of Vraska first came from pulling the Golgari queen in draft, as she was the first planeswalker I obtained while getting into mtg (Technically I have Jace, Ingenious Mind Mage too, but I got him before I really got _into_ magic), but learning about her story definitely solidified her as probably my favourite planeswalker. I'm curious to see where she goes from here.

I pulled Vraska relic seeker out of my first packs ever, I to admire Vraska as a complex and generally cool character Vraska relic seeker also has some really OP abilities

Vraska and Jace is the best pairing. You go get her, Blue Magic Man!

Please do a "Who Is Avacyn" video! It would be cool for people to learn how she was an angel created by a Planeswalker and eventually became corrupted after battling one of Liliana's demon lords.

Super unique content. S#*t is dope!

god golgari decks are by far my favourite. . .

Vraska's my fave of all time

Vraska, Golgari Queen ftw! Do a Tezzeret and Elspeth and Ajani video!

I like Vraska because the first time I saw her art she was looking majestically upward and it looked amazing. Also she's not a human. Sick to death of human planeswalkers. Can't there be more gorgons and planeswalking spiders?

Vraska and golgari are my favorites.

Please do a video on Ral! He is my favorite planeswalker, and the main character in the deck I bought to get into the game.

I have her 1st planeswalker card it is probably my fav

I'm surprised they didn't name the new card Vraska, the Untouchable because of that ultimate. Brutal. I had an opponent last Friday fire it off. If it wasn't for a well timed Etrata (yes I'm playing a better build of Etrata :P ) I would have lost.

I like vraska. She is my 2nd favorite. My ultimate favorite is definitely Nissa though, can't ever go wrong with Nissa.

Came back to this video after War of the Spark came out, it's too bad we never got the Jace/Vraska payoff, since Vraska got her memories back offscreen. :(

Aww... She has such a nice story. Hope she ends up with Jace in the end.

My favourite Planeswalker is Nicol Bolas

Vraska, Relic Seeker is my favorite Vraska card.

My FAVORITE PLANESWALKER!!!!! My Golgari QUEEN 👸💖

I wish the art in the thumbnail was used in a Planeswalker card. It's easily the most attractive rendition of her.

Where can I read more about the lore of Ravnica? I haven't played magic since return to Ravnica and I loved the Dimir

Vraska, Relic Seeker (one of the first cards I got

Golgari queen I guess would be one of my favourite planeswalkers but vraska as a sexy beast that she is has always been my favourite pw😎

i play her in my Thalid deck. super fun and effective

Jace is my favorite Vraska card

Can you do the back story and lore in regards to the card in war of the spark called "Massacre girl", please?

It's kinda amusing that the Dimir is part of the good guys this time around.

Ugin is my favorite planes walker

My favorite card is regal gorgan it was ny first card and i now have a varaska deck with three different cards of her

Can you do a video on Niv-Mizzet?

Hey there. Could you guys do the back story for Mu Yanling, Celestial Wind?

Good one! Just a thing about greek stories: gorgons don't turn into stone people they look at, but people crossing gorgon's sight does turn into stone. Blinds never gets Vraska's Contempted!

When you said Vraska would deal with Jarad did she kill him or let him live? Was wondering who Izoni is aswell and is she allies with Vraska?

I read a crossover fic between two gargon sister. Decided to found out who Tanya 's sister was.

(Vraska the unseen) in my opinion the very best version of her.

Favorite Vraska card is contempt, can't best the flavor text and that art

What is the best way to know the lore? Read the mtg site? Books? Flavor text? How do you get to study and learn how the story progresses?

My favourite and first planeswalker card evar is vraska Scheming Gorgon

My fav card is pirate vraska (she is my fav planswalker 2)

Ixalan is my favorite Set

I like this lady. You ever going to do a 'what are gorgons?' video? Medusa's story is damn depressing

Best Character EVER!!!!!!!

Vraska is the shit. Nice vid!

I love Vraska, she sadly comes in second for me, Cause Liliana is in fact my very favourite, but her whole from assassin to fuctional mommy for a group of social rejects and freaks, makes her a very lovable "monster" :) PS: PLZ do videos on Liliana, Arlinn Kord and Sorin