| “ | I have seen things that would reduce a weaker person to blubbering and raving. Want to hear about them?. | „ |
| ~ Vraska |
Vraska is a gorgon Planeswalker from Magic: the Gathering. She was one of Jace Beleren's deadliest adversaries, one of Ravnica's most lethal assassins, and was one of Nicol Bolas's most useful servants. Though she worked to undermine her employer and would be seen as redeemed by many, she would eventually be compleated into a deadly Phyrexian.
In Magic the Gathering: Arena, she was voiced by Katy Townsend who also voiced Aggie from The Loud House Movie.
History[]
Persecuted and Escape[]
For most of her youth, Vraska lived an average life for a gorgon in the Golgari Swarm. But, this peace was disturbed thanks to guild politics. Due to numerous murders attributed to members to the Golgari, the Azorius Senate issued a writ of mass arrest to any members of the Swarm. Vraska was one of the unlucky members to have been apprehended and was sent to an Azorius compound. With so many members of the Golgari being sent to this prison, it became overcrowded and a riot broke out. Vraska and her cellmates were sent to a secure location while the Azorius tried to stop the other inmates. Even though Vraska and the other prisoners were safe, they were still at odds with the guards who abused them. Vraska and the other cellmates knew they had to escape.
The group worked together to escape from the compound, but the Azorius were set on stopping Vraska because she was a threat. She was nearly killed by the guards but was saved when her Planeswaker Spark ignited. After being hurled through the Blind Eternities she was sent to an unknown plane and was left confused about what happened. It didn't take very long for her to master her new abilities.
Assassin[]
Vraska spent two years traveling the Multiverse and exploring new planes. Afterwards, she returned to her home plane of Ravnica. Through her travels, she learned a valuable lesson. "A person should die the death they deserve." Her mission to bring justice to those who deserved it inspired many other Golgari to join in her goal. She became an assassin and murdered many Ravnicans who she thought deserved her wrath. She had a special priority for murdering members of the Azorius Senate, killing anyone and everyone involved with her imprisonment and her abuse.
Vraska was considered a myth among many of the Golgari. She remains hidden until someone peaks her interest(hence her name being the hidden) and no one but her knows why. She chooses targets with caution and avoids causing political issues. Her infamy became known to those not members of the Golgari and when she picks a target, he or she doesn't last long against her. After a job is done, she planeswalks away to continue murdering people on other worlds.
Grander Plans[]
While continuing her assassin job, Vraska sought the aid of another planeswalker to complete a bigger task. Since Jace Beleren was the Living Guildpact, he was the perfect candidate. To get his attention, she murdered people with names that are similar to planes he has visited and placed them to spell his name. Jace found Vraska and the two were at odds with each other. Vraska used many tactics to try to convince Jace to join her, including demeaning him on his failures on other planes and revealing her end goal of destroying every guild. Jace then revealed that their conversation was being shown to the Guildleaders and Vraska's plans were foiled. She attempted to petrify Jace, but he survived. Vraska escaped and continued plotting in the shadows. Her sights were now set on murdering the leader of the Golgari Jarad and becoming Guildleader. She formed an alliance with a race of insects known as the Kraul and a race of powerful zombies known as the Erstwhile to rally against Jarad.
Ixalan[]
Captain Vraska
Vraska received an invitation from Nicol Bolas to meet him on his Meditation Plane. Bolas offered to help her become the Guildmaster of the Golgari Swarm in exchange for Vraska going to Ixalan to steal the Immortal Sun. She agreed and Bolas gave her the Thaumatic Compass to help Vraska find the city of Orazca where the Sun is located and the knowledge of how to sail a ship.
Once she arrived on Ixalan, she pretended to be a member of the Brazen Coalition and told other pirates she worked for a man named Lord Nicolas. She found her crew and sailed the ship known as the Belligerent. She was a democratic captain and easily gained the respect and admiration of her crew. While Vraska was continuing her search for Orazca, she found Jace stranded on a shore. Vraska attempted to question him on how he found her, but it was obvious to her that Jace lost his memory. Feeling pity for him, she let him live and allowed him to stay in her ship. Jace was still able to use his illusion magic and the crew of the Belligerent managed to plunder ships from the Legion of Dusk. As time passed, Jace and Vraska became friends and, grew respect for each other, and eventually romantic feelings formed between them. After Orazca resurfaced, Jace and Vraska fell into the deep water. This experience allowed Jace to reclaim his memories, much to Vraska's dismay. She was also able to the the memories Jace had regained. Vraska feared that she and Jace would become enemies again, but Jace forgave Vraska for their previous encounter. Now with an even stronger bond, the two climbed to the top of Orazca and were met by the sphinx Azor who used to be a Planeswalker and was the Parun of the Azorius Senate. The three discussed Azor's actions and how he and Ugin attempted to imprison Nicol Bolas on Ixalan, but that plan failed. Since Jace was the Living Guildpact, he used Azor's own magic to send him to an abandoned island.
Realizing that Bolas would both learn that Jace knew this information by reading her mind as well as kill her because the two are friends, Vraska suggests that Jace should erase himself from her memory and eventually return her memories when the time was right. Jace agreed and Vraska's memories were removed. She summoned Tezzeret to Ixalan and he stole the Immortal Sun with the Planar Bridge. With the Sun gone Vraska planeswalked from Ixalan.
When Vraska returned to Bolas, the dragon read her mind and found a fake memory Jace had inserted. Pleased with her performance, Bolas told Vraska that Jarad was ready for her to execute and she would become the new Guildleader of the Golgari. While she was excited to finally become Guildleader, she left the Meditation Plane feeling something important was missing.
Guilds of Ravnica to War of the Spark[]
Vraska petrifying someone
Once she returned to Ravnica, Vraska killed Jarad and became the leader of the Golgari Swarm. She was given aid from the Kraul and Erstwhile. The elves of the guild were unhappy with her leadership and wished Izoni would take the position instead. One of the Kraul, Xeddick, discovered the mental block Jace placed on her and removed it at her request. With her memories about her adventures with Jace and of Bolas's scheme restored, she wanted to attend the guild summit. In order to prove herself to some new potential allies in the form of Ral Zarek and the Rakdos emissary Hekara, she sent her guild to attack the Orzhov Syndicate to change its leadership. Their assault was a distraction in order for Kaya to kill the Obzedat Ghost Council, the Syndicate's leaders.
Bolas knew that Vraska was aiding her new friends and was acting against his interests. He gave her an ultimatum to either continue serving him or he would turn the Erstwhile against the Golgari and slaughter the entire guild. She reluctantly agreed to work with him though her actions weighed heavily on her and she also believed she could only run the Golgari with Bolas's help. At the summit, she petrified Isperia as revenge for the Azorius tormenting her as a child and she kept her body as a trophy. This allowed Dovin Baan to become the new Azorius Guildleader. Ral and the Boros Legion's Guildleader Aurelia fought Vraska, but she escaped at the cost of Xeddick's life. After Bolas possessed Lavinia to kill Hekara, Vraksa fought Ral yet again but was no match for his full power. She managed to escape by planeswalking away.
After her fight with Ral, she Planeswalked to Ixalan where she reunited with her former crew of the Belligerent. Vraska was worried about her guild and eventually returned to Ravnica to stop the elder dragon. When her former friends were trying to settle a dispute over who the next Guildleader of the Golgari would be, Vraska arrived and tried to convince them to join the fight. Though Kaya and Ral were suspicious of the gorgon, she ultimately managed to rally her guild to help and the Swarm aided Ajani Goldmane, Jiang Yanggu, Mu Yanling, and Huatli in saving civilians.
She was present when Hekara was revived which convinced the Rakdos to join the war and she aided the ceremony to make Niv-Mizzet the new Living Guildpact. Vraska immediately rejoined the battle and reunited with Jace. She confessed to him she regained her memories earlier than planned and though she knew killing Isperia only aided Bolas's plans, her rage got the best of her. Jace forgave her though and promised to go out with her if they made it out alive, a thought that made her want to live. After Nicol Bolas was defeated, the two shared a kiss. Niv-Mizzet and the Guildleaders tasked Vraska to kill Dovin Baan for his involvement with Bolas. They also decided to not send Vraska to meet the same fate since she defected before the war began.
Forsaken[]
Niv-Mizzet wanted Vraska to keep her assignment of hunting Dovin a secret from Jace who he thought would try to stop her. Her constant lying and her devotion to her guild fractured their relationship. While Vraska left to handle her mission, the other factions of the Swarm sent their representatives to fight for her title in her absence. Vraska found the vedalken in his in his safe house on Ravnica(but he had enhancements to help him see since he was blinded by Lazav). Knowing her influence among the Swarm was waning, he offered to help her maintain her position in exchange for sparing his life and faking his death. Baan managed to frame Vraska's greatest contender Izoni for a crime she didn't commit. After making a replica statue of Dovin, the two would have Chandra Nalaar be an unwitting accomplice in this fake execution. Vraska severed Baan's right hand as proof of his demise and Chandra torched the statue. Unbeknownst to both Vraska and Chandra, Dovin was assassinated by the Dimir member Atkos Tarr and Lazav had leverage to blackmail the gorgon. While Vraska retains control over her guild, she is now a puppet for Lazav since he would reveal that she failed to kill Dovin to the Living Guildpact if she doesn't comply with his demands.
The Brothers' War[]
Vraska was one of the many planeswalkers who allied with the Gatewatch against Elesh Norn and the New Phyrexians. The group traveled to New Phyrexia to join the Mirran Resistance along with the Quiet Furnace in their assault against Norn.
Phyrexia: All Will Be One[]
A compleated Vraska infecting Jace
After joining up with the strike team to assault New Phyrexia, Vraska planeswalked into the Dross Pits(New Phyrexia's sixth sphere) after coming into contact with the magic barrier guarding the plane. She was captured by black-aligned Phyrexians and sent to fight in Sheoldred's arena. Though she was putting up a valiant fight, she was becoming overwhelmed by the amount of combatants sent to face her and she became infected with phyresis as a result. Jace, most of the strike force, and their Mirran allies broke into the arena and slayed the Phyrexians present. Jace wanted to remain with Vraska but she warned him she was infected and would turn on him soon enough. Wanting to spend as much time as he can with her, Jace created an illusion of Ravnica in her mind so they enjoy what little time they had left together as if they weren't in danger. Though the two had fun together, by the time it was over, Vraska was fully compleated and injected him full of glistening oil by using her new scorpion-like tail. Her former friends fled with Phyrexians following them while Vraska laughed at them.
March of the Machine[]
During New Phyrexia's invasion of the multiverse, Vraska was in charge of leading a Phyrexian army to conquer her home of Ravnica and as a means to have her revenge on the Azorius Senate for her imprisonment and mistreatment. As soon as she arrived, she exacted her vengeance by having Realmbreaker destroy New Prav. Many of the Golgari allowed themselves to become compleated due to the orders of their guildmaster and members of the other guilds also joined them (some more willingly than others). Her old memories were mostly intact but warped to suit Elesh Norn's needs.
She is confronted by her old friend Ral Zerek and though she puts up a good fight, Ral remorsefully uses a device that disintegrates glistening oil on her causing her to collapse and her troops to abandon her. Though she lays dying after her defeat, her mind manages to clear in her final moments and she manages to reconcile with Jace or at least a psychic image of him. She deeply regrets all the terrible things she's done throughout her life and hates herself for betraying Jace. As usual, he forgives her and Vraska wants a do-over between the two of them. The two then proceed to share a passionate moment together before Vraska encounters a white light. After the invasion end, Vraska's body was unable to be located leaving her ultimate fate ambiguous.
Quotes[]
| “ | Now it’s your turn to hide. | „ |
| ~ Vraska |
| “ | You can’t protect them all, Jace. | „ |
| ~ Vraska |
| “ | You can’t think your way out of this, Jace. Thought implies life, and life requires a pulse—music to a hunter’s ears. | „ |
| ~ Vraska |
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