<h6 style="text-align: right;">Untold Stories #2 Variant cover. Illustrated by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/anireal.art/?hl=en">Jessica Fong</a></h6>
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<p>Dark Horse Comics' collaboration with Wizards of the Coast to create a new <em>Magic: The Gathering</em> comic book series is just beginning. We don't even have the first issue just yet (as it is due out on September 10th). However, the details for issue #2 are beginning to trickle outward to the public. Here's what we know about <em>Untold Stories: Elspeth</em> #2 so far!</p>
<div id="attachment_158793" style="width: 373px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Owen-Gieni-main-cover-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-158793" class="wp-image-158793" src="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Owen-Gieni-main-cover-2.jpg" alt="Untold Stories: Elspeth #2. Main cover illustrated by Owen Gieni. Image credit: Dark Horse Comics and Wizards of the Coast" width="363" height="559" srcset="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Owen-Gieni-main-cover-2.jpg 600w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Owen-Gieni-main-cover-2-195x300.jpg 195w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-158793" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Untold Stories: Elspeth</em> #2. Main cover illustrated by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/owen_gieni/?hl=en"><strong>Owen Gieni</strong></a>. Image credit: Dark Horse Comics and Wizards of the Coast</p></div>
<h2>Klothys and Calix Make an Appearance</h2>
<p>This story follows Elspeth's efforts to escape the Theroan underworld. It also appears to follow <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Klothys, God of Destiny" href="#" target="_blank">Klothys, God of Destiny</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and her champion, the demigod and Planeswalker known as <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Calix, Destiny&#039;s Hand" href="#" target="_blank">Calix</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. Klothys is upset that Elspeth is attempting to defy her fate to perish in that despondent realm. So, largely unable to fully leave Nyx (the <em>Magic: The Gathering</em> Olympus analogue), she sends Calix to pursue Elspeth.</p>
<p>As we don't know the exact plot for issue #1, the two may make their introduction there. However, it's also entirely possible that issue #2 will be Klothys and Calix's debut.</p>
<div id="attachment_158794" style="width: 373px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jessica-Fong-variant-cover-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-158794" class="wp-image-158794" src="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jessica-Fong-variant-cover-2.jpg" alt="Untold Stories: Elspeth #2. Variant cover illustrated by Jessica Fong. Image credit: Dark Horse Comics and Wizards of the Coast" width="363" height="559" srcset="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jessica-Fong-variant-cover-2.jpg 600w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jessica-Fong-variant-cover-2-195x300.jpg 195w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-158794" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Untold Stories: Elspeth</em> #2. Variant cover illustrated by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/anireal.art/?hl=en"><strong>Jessica Fong</strong></a>. Image credit: Dark Horse Comics and Wizards of the Coast</p></div>
<h2>Erebos Presides Over the Storyline</h2>
<p>As this all unfolds, one figure stands present, orchestrating much of what happens here: <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Erebos, God of the Dead" href="#" target="_blank">Erebos, God of the Dead</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. Erebos is a covetous tyrant of a God, and also presides over ill fate and misfortune. As such, he would naturally have a role in this story. You can see in the variant cover art for <em>Untold Stories: Elspeth</em> #2 (stunningly illustrated by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/magali_villeneuve/?hl=en"><strong>Magali Villeneuve</strong></a>) that Erebos is very present in the background. In visual language, this often will signify that the character is pulling some of the strings and will play an important role in later acts of the story. Does that mean Erebos has a larger role than many Vorthos may have been led to believe? Perhaps, but we will see. After all, this is Dark Horse Comics' version of the story as a whole.</p>
<div id="attachment_158798" style="width: 373px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Magali-Villeneuve-variant-cover-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-158798" class="wp-image-158798" src="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Magali-Villeneuve-variant-cover-2.jpg" alt="Untold Stories: Elspeth #2. Variant cover illustrated by Magali Villeneuve. Image credit: Dark Horse Comics and Wizards of the Coast" width="363" height="559" srcset="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Magali-Villeneuve-variant-cover-2.jpg 600w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Magali-Villeneuve-variant-cover-2-195x300.jpg 195w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-158798" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Untold Stories: Elspeth</em> #2. Variant cover illustrated by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/magali_villeneuve/?hl=en"><strong>Magali Villeneuve</strong></a>. Image credit: Dark Horse Comics and Wizards of the Coast</p></div>
<h2>Dark Horse Comics Has Provided Further Details</h2>
<p>Of course, with new comic book covers often comes new details about that comic book. As such, let's provide what Dark Horse has made public:</p>
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<p>After slaying one god and being betrayed by another, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Elspeth Tirel" href="#" target="_blank">Elspeth Tirel</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> scours Theros’s underworld for the man she loved and lost. However, the god of fate plans to redirect Elspeth into a tragic destiny.</p>
<p>• In partnership with Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast, Dark Horse expands the world of <em>Magic: The Gathering</em>—a widely popular tabletop and digital collectible card game with a 30+ year legacy.</p>
<p>• Written by acclaimed writer <strong>Dan Watters</strong> and illustrated by the talented <a href="https://www.instagram.com/owen_gieni/?hl=en"><strong>Owen Gieni</strong></a>.</p>
<p>• Four-issue series.</p>
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<h3>Creators</h3>
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<dt>Writer: <strong>Dan Watters</strong></dt>
<dt>Artist: <strong>Owen Gieni</strong></dt>
<dt>Colorist: <strong>Hilary Jenkins</strong></dt>
<dt>Letterer: <strong>Clayton Cowles</strong></dt>
<dt>Cover Artist: <strong>Owen Gieni</strong></dt>
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<div class="genre"><strong>Genre:</strong> Media Tie-In, Fantasy</div>
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<div>As this description alludes to, Elspeth has entered the Underworld hoping to find and rescue <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Daxos of Meletis" href="#" target="_blank">Daxos of Meletis</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, who is canonically Elspeth's Theroan paramour. However, Klothys clearly has other plans for Elspeth there.</div>
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<div><em>Untold Stories: Elspeth</em> #2 releases on October 22nd, 2025, quite a bit of time away from the time we're writing this piece. So, for now, this is the brunt of what we know about Dark Horse Comics' <em>Untold Stories: Elspeth</em> #2. Are you planning to read this comic book series? What's your opinion of Theros, <em>Theros: Beyond Death</em>, and/or Elspeth? Sound off in the comments below!</div>


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Dark Horse Comics' Elspeth #2: What We Know So Far