Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories - Elspeth
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| Publisher | Dark Horse Comics | |||
| Publication period | September 2025 - December 2025 | |||
| Number of issues | 4 | |||
| Character(s) | Elspeth Tirel | |||
| Creative team | ||||
| Writer(s) | Dan Watters | |||
| Penciller(s) | Owen Gieni | |||
| Letterer(s) | Clayton Cowles | |||
| Colorist(s) | Hilary Jenkins | |||
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Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories - Elspeth is a four-part comic series published monthly by Dark Horse Comics starting in September 2025.[1][2]
Overview
Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories - Elspeth is an adaptation of an unpublished story from the Theros Beyond Death expansion. The series is written by Dan Watters (Lucifer, Batman) and illustrated by Owen Gieni (Manifest Destiny, Rat Queens). The creative team also includes colorist Hilary Jenkins and letterer Clayton Cowles. It is considered to be canon.[3]
| Title | Author | Publishing date | Set | Setting (plane) | Featuring |
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| Untold Stories - Elspeth #1-4 | Dan Watters | September - December, 2025 | Theros: Beyond Death | Theros | Ashiok, Calix, Daxos, Elspeth Tirel, Erebos, Heliod, Klothys, Xenagos (mentioned) |
Background
Although the complete background story for Theros Beyond Death had been finished by author Dan Wells in 2020[4], there was no ebook published for Theros Beyond Death, nor were there weekly updates for Magic Story.[5][6] It was revealed that the blowback from War of the Spark: Forsaken caused the Theros Beyond Death fiction to be delayed.[7]
Plot summary
Volume 1
Elspeth is dead. But her story is not yet over.
The sun god Heliod, having grown envious of his champion, struck her down to the underworld. There, she is forced to relive the worst moments of her life for all eternity. But Elspeth does not submit to despair — she emerges from each conflict a greater hero than before. And for a great hero like Elspeth, what is death but another challenge to overcome?[8]
Volume 2
After slaying one god and being betrayed by another, Elspeth Tirel scours Theros’s underworld for the man she loved and lost. However, the god of fate plans to redirect Elspeth into a tragic destiny.
Volume 3
Defy the gods. Defy fate. Defy death.
Support for Elspeth grows in the Underworld, and the reluctant hero faces an Agent of Fate — the Nyxborn Calix.
Volume 4
Elspeth is dead. But her story was never over. Elspeth Tirel has faced nightmares and gods, and she has faced them unflinchingly. But in this series finale, can she face the man she once loved? And can Elspeth truly defy death?
Featured events and characters
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Covers
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Alternate cover for issue #1 -
Alternate cover for issue #1 -
Main cover for issue #2. Art by Magali Villeneuve. -
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Main cover for issue #3. Art by Kieran Yanner. -
Alternate cover for issue #3. -
Alternate cover for issue #4.
References
- ↑ Jesse Schedeen (May 22, 2025). "Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories - Elspeth Brings the Iconic Franchise to Dark Horse Comics". IGN.com.
- ↑ Magic: The Gathering (June 20, 2025). "We're calling this collaboration "Untold Stories" starting with a story about Elspeth escaping from the Theros underworld with this four issue run!". Twitter.
- ↑ Jay Annelli (September 15, 2025). "To answer the usual questions:- Yes, this is canon". Bluesky.
- ↑ Live From FanX! Alternate Dimensions—Ep. 26 of Intentionally Blank (Video). Brandon Sanderson. YouTube (2022).
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (December 16, 2019). "The Theros Beyond Death Story on Cards". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (January 10, 2020). "Theros Beyond Death Story Summary". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (January 27, 2020e). "Odds & Ends: Theros Beyond Death". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Totem Rusak (September 11, 2025). "Read Exclusive Pages From MAGIC: THE GATHERING: UNTOLD STORIES — ELSPETH Comic". Coolstuffinc.com.
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