That;s one way to get stoned. Six mana in two colours known for decent ramping effects, plus with all the treasure-creation abilities, she will be easy to get out.
Stunning artwork too.
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That's what a six-mana planeswalker gets you. Sorry, Sorin, but we'll always have Commander.
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-3 for a sorta-Vindicate (doesn't hit lands or planeswalkers) and treasure tokens (and Commander players may note Fangren Marauder synergy here)
-10 for making sure my next spell is indeed your Last Caress
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
So Vraska improved her ability and can now turn people into gold and jewels instead of just stone!
She's pretty cool. I'm not sure if she'll make the cut in my Superfriends EDH, but definitely worth consideration. She makes a blocker, blows things up while giving you a bit of ramp and makes someone's life miserable. What more could you want?
As a face walker of a Standard-legal set she is wretchedly bad everywhere but EDH. She was spoiled today at Hascon so her wretchedness would be lost in the spoilers for Iconic (Commander) Masters, which is where all the chatter is now.
I guess I should not be surprised at this though, b/c Standard expansions now are nothing but Commander products in disguise.
I agree, a 6 mana walker that does not significantly impact the board is horrible. Like someone else said, here abilities would have been perfect at four mana and made here playable. At 6, she's a future 2 dollar walker while still being legal in standard.
Ajani: With my emblem, you'll be protected from all but 1 damage from any and every source. Vraska: It would be a shame if I set your life total to 1, wouldn't it?
Ajani: *sigh* Dammit Vraska, first your Assassins, now this...well, two can play at that game.
Sorin: Hey, has anyone seen my ultimate? Setting the opponent to 10 was fun, but I thought I'd go one step farther. What's this?
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Thanks for the killer ultimate!
Love, Vraska"
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Sorin: Are you the one who told Vraska where to find my house!? I told you before, I didn't stealyour ultimate! They didn't use it on your original planeswalker card, so they gave it to me! Whatever, I guess I'll just create an army of tokens based on my partner's life total or something... Ajani: ...Well, at least he's only imitating one of my ultimates.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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Am i in before all the crybaby edh players start whining about her "broken" ultimate? Itll be the same lot that whine about sorin markov but havent seen him played in over 3 years
Shes... okay. I play edh pretty exclusively these days and cant think of anywhere id like to jam her (other than between the legs am i rite) but shes not exactly bad either
Dig the art at least
Considering you have to work for this particular "broken" payoff, I doubt you'll hear the "crybabies" that I happen to belong be in association with. I mean, you're talking spending 6 and "target player loses 30 life", compared to spending 6, survive a few turns, and "target player loses 39 life". Big difference.
Sorin is actually played quite often, but rarely does that player ever win a game. Wins a battle, but definitely not the war.
So Vraska improved her ability and can now turn people into gold and jewels instead of just stone!
She's pretty cool. I'm not sure if she'll make the cut in my Superfriends EDH, but definitely worth consideration. She makes a blocker, blows things up while giving you a bit of ramp and makes someone's life miserable. What more could you want?
What more could you want? Four CMC w/ 4 starting loyalty otherwise the same so that she has a chance to make it into the only format I play, Modern. What a miss here.
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I agree, a 6 mana walker that does not significantly impact the board is horrible. Like someone else said, here abilities would have been perfect at four mana and made here playable. At 6, she's a future 2 dollar walker while still being legal in standard.
2/2 menace to block or destroying artifact/creature/or enchantment does not affect the board?
Ok.
6 or 8 loyalty start which beats Hour of Devastation?
I admit she's expensive but I don't want to see anymore Gideons. Screw that.
She reminds me of Elspeth, Sun's Champion. In the sense that for every ability that made Elspeth the ultimate control PW in standard, Vraska's makes her the ultimate midrange one. Both PWs have an inner synergy between their + and ult abilities.
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Pioneer - A bunch of stuff Modern - Humans Legacy - Grixis Phoenix / Death & Taxes
I agree, a 6 mana walker that does not significantly impact the board is horrible. Like someone else said, here abilities would have been perfect at four mana and made here playable. At 6, she's a future 2 dollar walker while still being legal in standard.
2/2 menace to block or destroying artifact/creature/or enchantment does not affect the board?
Ok.
6 or 8 loyalty start which beats Hour of Devastation?
I admit she's expensive but I don't want to see anymore Gideons. Screw that.
At six mana, yeah, she needs to significantly affect the board. Not make a 2/2 token or kill something. At six mana, she should make 3 tokens and her minus should destroy a lot more than one permanent. Her abilities are weak card advantage for 6 mana.
I agree, a 6 mana walker that does not significantly impact the board is horrible. Like someone else said, here abilities would have been perfect at four mana and made here playable. At 6, she's a future 2 dollar walker while still being legal in standard.
2/2 menace to block or destroying artifact/creature/or enchantment does not affect the board?
Ok.
6 or 8 loyalty start which beats Hour of Devastation?
I admit she's expensive but I don't want to see anymore Gideons. Screw that.
At six mana, yeah, she needs to significantly affect the board. Not make a 2/2 token or kill something. At six mana, she should make 3 tokens and her minus should destroy a lot more than one permanent. Her abilities are weak card advantage for 6 mana.
Elspeth generated three 1/1s. Generating three 2/2s is twice the manpower.
I would have been OK with her -3 killing two things and spawning two Treasures, but then again, I don't know how easily she'll be deployed in Standard.
Why does everyone critique planeswalkers as if you're tapping out for this by itself? In BG, you should have creatures around her and can definitely creature massive value over time. I don't mind this at all.
I think the general process of analyzing any card for the first time is to think about how it stands by itself. That's a logical thing to do because there are times in gameplay when you only have one permanent out. Also, when we are getting a set spoiled, we have only limited access to the environment in which the card will be played. After Kaladesh, I remember reading a pro who said that Collective Defiance is a great card in a normal Standard environment, but with Chandra, Torch of Defiance out there, it undercuts some of the former's value. Those types of evaluations are only possible when you have access to all of the information available; something that's not possible during spoiler season. And don't forget that we're getting ready to rotate a bunch of cards.
tl;dr - during spoiler season, it makes sense to initially evaluate a card by itself. makes even more sense when rotation looms. obviously, it's not the final word on a card's value. it's just a great way to get a feel for a card.
During spoiler season, people routinely underestimate or overestimate cards, because of the lack of information regarding how those cards interact with the other cards in the format. So I say that it's generally a heavily flawed process of trying to determine how good a card will be.
Dang that ultimate is mean and if you have a bunch of menace pirates your opponent won't be able to block.
For six mana all her ability seem to give you vault which is good and a +2 to protect herself is pretty nice. Just don't know what a good deck for her would be. The green hurts for pirate tribal.
There are some pirates and spells that make treasure tokens. It should be pretty easy to pay the G with a treasure token, and it also helps that if you have 2 or 3 treasure tokens, you can cast her on turn 4 or 5. Plus, if you do splash green or end up just playing her in B/G Winding Constrictor gives a 7th starting loyalty.
I think she's going to be awesome, with or without pirates. You can use the mana dork pirate, but also just any pirates and/or spells that make treasure tokens to cast her earlier than turn 6. It shouldn't be hard to get turn treasure tokens and effectively cast her on 4 lands. I think she's going to be important in Standard before she rotates.
Honestly I don't like her, mechanically and cost-wise speaking. She does look powerful once she hits the board, but her cost is very high, even in green. I'm sure some standard decks will slot her in, but she is a very forgettable walker. A shame.
You don't like anything, it seems.
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Am i in before all the crybaby edh players start whining about her "broken" ultimate? Itll be the same lot that whine about sorin markov but havent seen him played in over 3 years
Shes... okay. I play edh pretty exclusively these days and cant think of anywhere id like to jam her (other than between the legs am i rite) but shes not exactly bad either
Dig the art at least
The "whining" comes from the fact that you can instantly do Sorin Markov's set life total to 10 which practically invalidates the game for most players as it is a cheap shot ez way to win. However Vraska's ability takes set up with something like Doubling Season or counter doublers to do it right away. There really is no comparison between the two, unless you really are reaching to complain about something in EDH.
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Honestly I don't like her, mechanically and cost-wise speaking. She does look powerful once she hits the board, but her cost is very high, even in green. I'm sure some standard decks will slot her in, but she is a very forgettable walker. A shame.
Cradle in modern is gonna be pretty interesting. One of the easiest cards to flip in decks that want it too, the only 'bad' thing being the 'high' cost of 2G. Excellent card.
It is interesting. Much easier to flip, provides early card selection and has late game application. To be honest I can see 2~3 copies of this card slotted in control decks. It is also a cheap way to enable delirium quickly, if that counts for anything.
EDIT: The more I think about this card, the more insane it starts to look to me. An impulse effect with certain restrictions is quite strong. The cost of the enchantment is very cheap. Adding mana means it will ramp you the turn it flips. I'm starting to think this might be playable on modern.
Btw, Merfolk Branchwalker is a solid, solid card. I think that, with some mana-base tweaking, it could see play in modern merfolk. It can easily be 4 more copies of silvergill adept (thought you wouldn't always net advantage, you would still have some card selection, and a 3 power creature).
The art in these is simply stunning. Love John Avon. I'm sure I will never have them though, since their price is going to be absurd.
They are also light-years better than the judge foils from Terese Nielsen.
The only complain that I have is that the swamp and the forest look very similar in structure, and the mountain and the island even more so. Wished they were a bit more different from each other.
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I don't have to reach to complain about EDH. It has its own dedicated product line through WotC now but still pollutes Standard expansions and Masters sets.
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I play Magic: the Gathering, not Magic: the Commandering.
I don't have to reach to complain about EDH. It has its own dedicated product line through WotC now but still pollutes Standard expansions and Masters sets.
I think the problem is that Wizards still tries to build cards in standard for other formats. I don't have a problem with it, but avid standard players do. EDH isn't the issue.
Honestly I don't like her, mechanically and cost-wise speaking. She does look powerful once she hits the board, but her cost is very high, even in green. I'm sure some standard decks will slot her in, but she is a very forgettable walker. A shame.
Cradle in modern is gonna be pretty interesting. One of the easiest cards to flip in decks that want it too, the only 'bad' thing being the 'high' cost of 2G. Excellent card.
It is interesting. Much easier to flip, provides early card selection and has late game application. To be honest I can see 2~3 copies of this card slotted in control decks. It is also a cheap way to enable delirium quickly, if that counts for anything.
EDIT: The more I think about this card, the more insane it starts to look to me. An impulse effect with certain restrictions is quite strong. The cost of the enchantment is very cheap. Adding mana means it will ramp you the turn it flips. I'm starting to think this might be playable on modern.
Btw, Merfolk Branchwalker is a solid, solid card. I think that, with some mana-base tweaking, it could see play in modern merfolk. It can easily be 4 more copies of silvergill adept (thought you wouldn't always net advantage, you would still have some card selection, and a 3 power creature).
The art in these is simply stunning. Love John Avon. I'm sure I will never have them though, since their price is going to be absurd.
They are also light-years better than the judge foils from Terese Nielsen.
The only complain that I have is that the swamp and the forest look very similar in structure, and the mountain and the island even more so. Wished they were a bit more different from each other.
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Providing some of the only seldom examples of you (surprisingly) giving positive comments about cards doesn't change the fact that you consistently complain about almost anything you can. I mean, you literally just posted today that Mana Drain is a bad reprint because only Commander and Vintage players use it. I mean just wow man, cmon.
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Providing some of the only seldom examples of you (surprisingly) giving positive comments about cards doesn't change the fact that you consistently complain about almost anything you can. I mean, you literally just posted today that Mana Drain is a bad reprint because only Commander and Vintage players use it. I mean just wow man, cmon.
Amazing. Here I was thinking you would see the wrongness of your ways when confronted with glaring evidence. Apparently not. Stay in denial my friend, I will not address you any longer.
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If you look at the colors, the only 2-color combination in the game that does not have a PW in Modern being played is B/G. I understand completely being a Modern player that many of the walkers above are not really that good, but they are cheap/powerful/synergistic enough for people to try and make them work in the format. I will note the only B/R walker here is 3-color Nicol Bolas and the only G/W walker is 3-color Tamiyo. Still, there is no B/G walker anywhere of any combination. The first Vraska is unplayable b/c her + ability does absolutely nothing to affect the game...no mana ramp, no card draw, no tap down, no buff or nerf of creatures...nothing, so she is essentially a 5CMC Maelstrom Pulse. The new one is unplayable at 6CMC. The last Vraska was in RtR, which came out in 2012...so, do we wait another five years for another version of Vraska that might be Modern playable? Highly unlikely we will get another version in Rivals. If Angrath (likely B/R) and Ajani (possibly G/W) in Rivals are cheap enough to be Modern playable, I will send Vraska to WotC headquarters for a face-to-face chat.
Further, the Gatewatch walkers all have recently gotten either a 3CMC (I count UG Nissa here) version (as soon as Ixalan Jace becomes legal), or, as in the case of Chandra, a Modern-playable walker w/ four abilities.
Why no love for Golgari walkers? Given the change in Planeswalker rules, and how much PWs have become the face of this game, one would think WotC would have tried to push the new Vraska a bit so it could at least be given a chance in Modern. She is THE B/G walker.
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If you look at the colors, the only 2-color combination in the game that does not have a PW in Modern being played is B/G. I understand completely being a Modern player that many of the walkers above are not really that good, but they are cheap/powerful/synergistic enough for people to try and make them work in the format. I will note the only B/R walker here is 3-color Nicol Bolas and the only G/W walker is 3-color Tamiyo. Still, there is no B/G walker anywhere of any combination. The first Vraska is unplayable b/c her + ability does absolutely nothing to affect the game...no mana ramp, no card draw, no tap down, no buff or nerf of creatures...nothing, so she is essentially a 5CMC Maelstrom Pulse. The new one is unplayable at 6CMC. The last Vraska was in RtR, which came out in 2012...so, do we wait another five years for another version of Vraska that might be Modern playable? Highly unlikely we will get another version in Rivals. If Angrath (likely B/R) and Ajani (possibly G/W) in Rivals are cheap enough to be Modern playable, I will send Vraska to WotC headquarters for a face-to-face chat.
Further, the Gatewatch walkers all have recently gotten either a 3CMC (I count UG Nissa here) version (as soon as Ixalan Jace becomes legal), or, as in the case of Chandra, a Modern-playable walker w/ four abilities.
Why no love for Golgari walkers? Given the change in Planeswalker rules, and how much PWs have become the face of this game, one would think WotC would have tried to push the new Vraska a bit so it could at least be given a chance in Modern. She is THE B/G walker.
Overall I don't mind you feeling sad about Vraska not being modern playable. I understand your frustration.
However,
1) Garruk Relentless sees modern play (albeit not much), and, strictly speaking, he is B/G.
2) Some would argue that Garruk is now "the" B/G planeswalker.
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That;s one way to get stoned. Six mana in two colours known for decent ramping effects, plus with all the treasure-creation abilities, she will be easy to get out.
Stunning artwork too.
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+2 for a bear with menace.
-3 for a sorta-Vindicate (doesn't hit lands or planeswalkers) and treasure tokens (and Commander players may note Fangren Marauder synergy here)
-10 for making sure my next spell is indeed your Last Caress
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She's pretty cool. I'm not sure if she'll make the cut in my Superfriends EDH, but definitely worth consideration. She makes a blocker, blows things up while giving you a bit of ramp and makes someone's life miserable. What more could you want?
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I agree, a 6 mana walker that does not significantly impact the board is horrible. Like someone else said, here abilities would have been perfect at four mana and made here playable. At 6, she's a future 2 dollar walker while still being legal in standard.
Vraska: It would be a shame if I set your life total to 1, wouldn't it?
Ajani: *sigh* Dammit Vraska, first your Assassins, now this...well, two can play at that game.
Sorin: Hey, has anyone seen my ultimate? Setting the opponent to 10 was fun, but I thought I'd go one step farther. What's this?
"Dear Sorin,
Thanks for the killer ultimate!
Love, Vraska"
Sorin: What!? Vraska stole my ultimate!?
Nicol Bolas: Payback's a *****, ain't it?
Sorin: Are you the one who told Vraska where to find my house!? I told you before, I didn't steal your ultimate! They didn't use it on your original planeswalker card, so they gave it to me! Whatever, I guess I'll just create an army of tokens based on my partner's life total or something...
Ajani: ...Well, at least he's only imitating one of my ultimates.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Considering you have to work for this particular "broken" payoff, I doubt you'll hear the "crybabies" that I happen to belong be in association with. I mean, you're talking spending 6 and "target player loses 30 life", compared to spending 6, survive a few turns, and "target player loses 39 life". Big difference.
Sorin is actually played quite often, but rarely does that player ever win a game. Wins a battle, but definitely not the war.
I'm thinking Abzan tokens. You get Anointed Procession, Paralell Lives, Oath of Gideon and Oath of Ajani and obviously.
What more could you want? Four CMC w/ 4 starting loyalty otherwise the same so that she has a chance to make it into the only format I play, Modern. What a miss here.
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2/2 menace to block or destroying artifact/creature/or enchantment does not affect the board?
Ok.
6 or 8 loyalty start which beats Hour of Devastation?
I admit she's expensive but I don't want to see anymore Gideons. Screw that.
At six mana, yeah, she needs to significantly affect the board. Not make a 2/2 token or kill something. At six mana, she should make 3 tokens and her minus should destroy a lot more than one permanent. Her abilities are weak card advantage for 6 mana.
Elspeth generated three 1/1s. Generating three 2/2s is twice the manpower.
I would have been OK with her -3 killing two things and spawning two Treasures, but then again, I don't know how easily she'll be deployed in Standard.
During spoiler season, people routinely underestimate or overestimate cards, because of the lack of information regarding how those cards interact with the other cards in the format. So I say that it's generally a heavily flawed process of trying to determine how good a card will be.
There are some pirates and spells that make treasure tokens. It should be pretty easy to pay the G with a treasure token, and it also helps that if you have 2 or 3 treasure tokens, you can cast her on turn 4 or 5. Plus, if you do splash green or end up just playing her in B/G Winding Constrictor gives a 7th starting loyalty.
I think she's going to be awesome, with or without pirates. You can use the mana dork pirate, but also just any pirates and/or spells that make treasure tokens to cast her earlier than turn 6. It shouldn't be hard to get turn treasure tokens and effectively cast her on 4 lands. I think she's going to be important in Standard before she rotates.
You don't like anything, it seems.
even accounting for the Kefka/Sephiroth ultimate.
She easily could have been 5 mana with some tweaks to numbers—
see Liliana, Death's Majesty for reference.
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The "whining" comes from the fact that you can instantly do Sorin Markov's set life total to 10 which practically invalidates the game for most players as it is a cheap shot ez way to win. However Vraska's ability takes set up with something like Doubling Season or counter doublers to do it right away. There really is no comparison between the two, unless you really are reaching to complain about something in EDH.
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At least it's a blocker. And since you are in black you will have removal to eventually push those 2/2s through.
I like how you can use her ultimate then play that Amonkhet Desert to ping them for 1 damage lol.
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I think the problem is that Wizards still tries to build cards in standard for other formats. I don't have a problem with it, but avid standard players do. EDH isn't the issue.
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Providing some of the only seldom examples of you (surprisingly) giving positive comments about cards doesn't change the fact that you consistently complain about almost anything you can. I mean, you literally just posted today that Mana Drain is a bad reprint because only Commander and Vintage players use it. I mean just wow man, cmon.
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These numbers come from MTG Top 8 over the last two months. There are twenty two PWs seeing play in Modern in that time:
Liliana
Karn
Jace
Gideon
Chandra
Ugin
Elspeth
Nahiri
Ajani
Sorin
Saheeli
Garruk
Nissa
Koth
Domri
Tamiyo
Tezzeret
Dovin Baan
Ashiok
Kiora (KIORA!!!)
Narset
Nicol Bolas
If you look at the colors, the only 2-color combination in the game that does not have a PW in Modern being played is B/G. I understand completely being a Modern player that many of the walkers above are not really that good, but they are cheap/powerful/synergistic enough for people to try and make them work in the format. I will note the only B/R walker here is 3-color Nicol Bolas and the only G/W walker is 3-color Tamiyo. Still, there is no B/G walker anywhere of any combination. The first Vraska is unplayable b/c her + ability does absolutely nothing to affect the game...no mana ramp, no card draw, no tap down, no buff or nerf of creatures...nothing, so she is essentially a 5CMC Maelstrom Pulse. The new one is unplayable at 6CMC. The last Vraska was in RtR, which came out in 2012...so, do we wait another five years for another version of Vraska that might be Modern playable? Highly unlikely we will get another version in Rivals. If Angrath (likely B/R) and Ajani (possibly G/W) in Rivals are cheap enough to be Modern playable, I will send Vraska to WotC headquarters for a face-to-face chat.
Further, the Gatewatch walkers all have recently gotten either a 3CMC (I count UG Nissa here) version (as soon as Ixalan Jace becomes legal), or, as in the case of Chandra, a Modern-playable walker w/ four abilities.
Why no love for Golgari walkers? Given the change in Planeswalker rules, and how much PWs have become the face of this game, one would think WotC would have tried to push the new Vraska a bit so it could at least be given a chance in Modern. She is THE B/G walker.
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However,
1) Garruk Relentless sees modern play (albeit not much), and, strictly speaking, he is B/G.
2) Some would argue that Garruk is now "the" B/G planeswalker.
Read my other stories as well (some ongoing):
Reaper King (a horror story), Kaalia of the Vast (an origin story), Sequels for Innistrad (Alternative sequels for Inn), Grey Areas (Odric's fanfic), Royal Succession (goblins),The Tracker's Message (eldrazi on Innistrad) and Ugin and his Eye (the end of OGW).