Who is Vraska? | Magic Arcanum
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2018
- Vraska is all over Guilds of Ravnica, but where did she come from? How did she get to be Golgari Queen? Who is this mysterious planeswalker?
Ryan explains everything you need to know about one of the most interesting and complex characters in Magic: The Gathering...
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vraska, golgari bae
She’s my mtg waifu.
Jace seems to have a black mana thing
he probably would be blue black if there was only a blue black guild on ravnica, sadly there isn't.
Color pairs make everything more interesting. Let's have it.
@@d-m-n that's the Dimir
@@megaprime4173 dimir doesnt actually exist
Jace's original story arc was supposed to be about him being torn between the light and dark of White and Black mana -- both being Blue's ally colours. It's never really come to much though.
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.
RE: How things will turn out... my response from two years in future is... Sadly, not well.
The storyline is basically cast aside in the name of shoddy ham-handed storytelling. I was hoping so hard for Vraska and Jace to reunite and fall in love/work together for the betterment of Ravnica, but instead her character's contributions are the cold-blooded murder of Isperia :/
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.
I said it once and I'll say it again. Mr. Gomez, you are an amazing storyteller.
Vraska... HA! She will tremble at the power of my mighty intellect!
bet
@@benjamingarner3459 niv will probably fight bolas. And probably die, which makes me sad. Unless the good guys come up with some way to kill bolas
Lol, even Ral can kick your scaly behind.
^ unf~ that actually sounds hot 😍
Love this big nerd dragon
All Vraska cards are my favorite Vraska card because Vraska is bae and is the best character in Magic.
(Ryan) This is the best answer.
And now a Sworm(prom) gueen in secret lair
Idk sorin is way cooler and hotter
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.
Me too! That's how I found this channel and why I subbed.
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. :)
can you pls do a video about our beloved homuculus fblthp
Okay. We all love Fblthp but when are we going to get Oglor as a legendary creature.
Did you bite your tongue? xD
Thanks so much for doing this, I love the lore. Subscribed and will be going through all these. Big thanks, sir!
I knew nothing about her, but always loved her cards. Thanks for the quick rundown of her history!
These are the only videos from this channel I watch. More content like this please!
Subbed
Vraska's your fave Planeswalker?
Ah...I see you're a man of culture as well
lmao
damn Jace is into some freaky stuff. kinda jealous though...
Vraska is my favourite homestuck character
Then u have shit taste, let's go Karkat
Zenhotta i like karkat too but yknow vriska could punch a hole right through me and i wouldnt object
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!
agree
Absolutely loved this video. would love to see more origin stories done this well. great job
Man I love these videos don’t ever stop them.
Great video! Can't wait to see more lore! Also my favorite "Vraska" card is Nights Whisper, fair card draw, cool art.
Hey, this guy is a great presenter of magic lore. Great job dude, looking forward to more videos!
my love for this game just grows with these vids!
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.
It’s really cool how you can see the story through the art
In Magic The Gathering, I was always able to see the story through the cards. I've always been a big fan of flavor text and how an artist portrays a certain card, because it helps me connect the dots. MTG is excellent at this. Even without reading any of the books, you can still glean parts of the stories just by reading/looking at the cards from a shared block.
I also used to play Yu-Gi-Oh way back when and it took me forever to figure out that they've been doing the same thing, only much more obscure. Their cards also tell a story and speak of a shared universe, if you can manage to connect all the dots, but it's done in such a vague and easy to miss way that it took me years to piece it all together and at that point, I wasn't even playing the game anymore.
Subbed, I like how you break down your explanations for the stories.
4 yr ago Ryan didn’t know she would get completed.
WOW! Great job!
I love the relic seeker art sheerly because of the detail and how dark yet not dark it looks
o man how did i miss these they are so great
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!
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!
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.
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!!!
I’m so excited for the guilds of ravnica novel!
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)
These videos are pretty cool. I would like to see one of Niv-Mizzet! :)
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.
Love that story telling about the magic lore!
Love the videos, keep 'em coming!
Great video! Would love to see one for every walker eventually!
(Ryan) I have good news for you...
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.
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.
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!
this is the only conclusion that i will accept
now this is what war of the spark should have been
And now we get crimson vow teasing a marriage? Canon???
Vraska is my favorite planeswalker! I'm pretty new but I already own all but one of her different planeswalkers cards!
I just started playing Magic with Core Set 2019. Vraska, Golgari Queen is my first Planeswalker I've gotten.
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.
Great video, thanks for sharing! Has anyone ever told you that you remind them of Ross Merriam from Star City Games? Haha
I wanna see vids on Ajani, Elspeth, and Tezzeret. Great content. Please keep it going. 👍
There is a book on amazon that follow ajani elspeth sarkahn and some other characters. I think its alara unbroken
I love learning all this lore! I would love to hear about the kamigawa lore
Whenever I vraksa contempt a vraska planeswalker I cry a little on the inside ...
Now that’s a character arc!!
i just got into MTG for the first time (im 34) and Vraska is my first deck. golgari are badass
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
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.
Vraska and Jace is the best pairing. You go get her, Blue Magic Man!
Super unique content. S#*t is dope!
god golgari decks are by far my favourite. . .
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.
agree
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.
(Ryan) He's on the list!
Vraska, Golgari Queen ftw! Do a Tezzeret and Elspeth and Ajani video!
I like vraska. She is my 2nd favorite. My ultimate favorite is definitely Nissa though, can't ever go wrong with Nissa.
My favourite Planeswalker is Nicol Bolas
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. :(
Vraska's my fave of all time
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?
Hey there. Could you guys do the back story for Mu Yanling, Celestial Wind?
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.
Can you do the back story and lore in regards to the card in war of the spark called "Massacre girl", please?
I have her 1st planeswalker card it is probably my fav
Aww... She has such a nice story. Hope she ends up with Jace in the end.
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?
Vraska, Relic Seeker is my favorite Vraska card.
Where can I read more about the lore of Ravnica? I haven't played magic since return to Ravnica and I loved the Dimir
You can't love that which doesn't exist
You are probably thinking about the wrong set, there is no Dimir in Ravnica.
@Anzu WylieiYep, it's a joke about the dimir being hidden and secretive and stuff
@Anzu Wyliei no it's not there is seriously no guild called Dimir
Vraska and golgari are my favorites.
i play her in my Thalid deck. super fun and effective
Where can i read the lore of Ral, caller of storms
Vraska, Relic Seeker (one of the first cards I got
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?
(Ryan) The story archive on the Wizards of the Coast page is a great place to start, and new stories are added most Wednesdays (they do take a break between sets sometimes though.)
magic.wizards.com/en/story
So I recently started reading the lore on the Magic website starting with origins.
I am still kinda confused where the things happening during those Stories fit in with Vraskas Story.
Can someone give me a short timeline?
My FAVORITE PLANESWALKER!!!!! My Golgari QUEEN 👸💖
Can you do a video on Niv-Mizzet?
I wish the art in the thumbnail was used in a Planeswalker card. It's easily the most attractive rendition of her.
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!
(Ryan) An important detail. Thank you Julien!
She also has to willingly channel magic in order to stone anyone
She can't do it as a mistake
@@_traximundar_3165 Yeah I hope she could decide rather than the original Homer's gorgon. It's better for friend making!
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😎
Was is the Sisters of Stone Death who ruled the old Golgari, or was it Savra?
Savra killed the Sisters with help of one of the First Guild Leaders. I think he was called sovgothos or something. Jarad was her Brother and replaced her when rakdos attaked the city in dissension.
My favorite card is regal gorgan it was ny first card and i now have a varaska deck with three different cards of her
Jace is my favorite Vraska card
Ugin is my favorite planes walker
Great
Vraska is the shit. Nice vid!
It's kinda amusing that the Dimir is part of the good guys this time around.
Favorite Vraska card is contempt, can't best the flavor text and that art
Also it can be tilting as fuck at times.
Also can you summarize jace story?
I read a crossover fic between two gargon sister. Decided to found out who Tanya 's sister was.
It would be awesome if they used Arena to convey the story
I hope they develop the house guild deeper 😍😍😍