The compleated ability looks only at whether a player chose to pay 2 life for a Phyrexian mana symbol as they were casting the spell. If a player paid life for some other reason while casting the spell, that will not reduce the number of loyalty counters the planeswalker enters the battlefield with.
A Phyrexian mana symbol contributes 1 toward the mana value of a card, even if life is paid for it. Specifically, Vraska's mana value is always 6.
In most cases, the target of Vraska's last loyalty ability will end up with nine poison counters. However, once you calculate what the difference is, replacement effects can change how many poison counters the player actually gets. For example, if the player controls Melira, the Living Cure, they will end up getting one poison counter if they had eight or fewer to begin with.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from ONE — the lineup includes Showcase alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #442 of *Phyrexia: All Will Be One*, the set that shipped alongside the February 2023 Phyrexia: All Will Be One release.
Card type: Legendary Planeswalker — Vraska, color identity black, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {4}{B}{B/P} (6 converted). Keyword abilities: Proliferate and Compleated.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #1,348 in Commander, putting it in the common-include tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Sansyu. Rarix catalogs 34 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Sansyu
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The target of Vraska's second loyalty ability will lose any other subtypes and card types it previously had and will be only a Treasure artifact. It will retain any supertypes it had.
Other replacement effects that would change the number of loyalty counters Vraska enters with will apply as normal.
