Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories--Elspeth

by Dan Watters, Owen Gieni (Artist), Hilary Jenkins (Colorist)

Witness Planeswalker Elspeth Tirel’s escape from the underworld and her battle against her god in this first graphic novel collection of Dark Horse Comic’s tales from Magic the Gathering’s multiverse.

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?

The unpublished story of Theros Beyond Death is finally brought to life by renowned author Dan Watters and talented artist Owen Gieni.

Collects Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories—Elspeth #1–#4.

Story Locale:Magic the Gathering's multiverse

Series Overview: Collects Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories—Elspeth #1–#4.

112 pages, Paperback

Published September 22, 2026

About the author

Dan Watters is a UK based comic book writer. His first book, LIMBO, was released through Image Comics in 2016. He has since written THE SHADOW at Dynamite Comics, and ASSASSIN’S CREED and WOLFENSTEIN for Titan Comics.

Currently he is writing the relaunch of LUCIFER for Vertigo’s Sandman Universe, as well as DEEP ROOTS for Vault Comics. Deeply rooted in London Town, and firmly of the Devil's party.

Reviews

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

so glad the theros beyond death story is finally got filled in. for the unaware, we were supposed to get a novel, but it got canceled and there was also no web fiction for it so all we ended up getting was a plot summary of what the novel was supposed to cover getting dumped into the main mtg newsfeed.

i liked this miniseries a lot, but as a noted ashiok simp i think it's pretty upsetting how little we got of them tormenting elspeth. i uh assure you my interest in a scary enby torturing a girltwink is uh purely academic and stuff.

[Thom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Note: I received access to read this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

The art rules and the writing is mostly not good. So much of the storytelling is "tell don't show" lore dumps. That said, it wraps up nicely.

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

So this was terrible. It's all exposition. How about we let the art do the heavy lifting instead of these gods droning on and on. I could not have been less interested by the time this ended.