Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories - Elspeth

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Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories - Elspeth
Publication information
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
Dark Horse Comics
Gerrard's Quest Untold Stories - Elspeth N/A
Publication chronology
Preceded By
Magic Planeswalkers: Notorious
Followed By
N/A

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Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories - Elspeth is an adaptation of an unpublished story from the Theros Beyond Death expansion.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
Untold Stories - Elspeth #1-4 Dan Watters September 2025 - Theros: Beyond Death Theros Ashiok, Daxos, Elspeth Tirel, Erebos, Heliod

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.

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