Liliana Vess has starred in more Magic: The Gathering cards than almost any other planeswalker, but she's never had her own comic book until now. Dark Horse Comics and Wizards of the Coast confirmed Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories—Liliana in June 2026, and issue #1 arrives in comic shops on October 14, 2026.
This is a genuinely new piece of Liliana media, not a reprint or adaptation of an existing card set. It's a four-issue miniseries built specifically to dramatize a chapter of her story that, until now, only existed in scattered card flavor text and one short prose article from 2011.
This guide covers everything confirmed about the series so far: who's making it, what it's about, when each issue arrives, and which covers to look for on shelves.
We'll also flag the handful of details Dark Horse hasn't locked down yet, since a four-issue series announced only months in advance always has some gaps between issue #1 and issue #4.
Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories—Liliana #1 (of 4) goes on sale October 14, 2026, priced at $4.99 for a 32-page, full-color issue measuring roughly 6 5/8 by 10 3/16 inches. Dark Horse rates the series 14+.
As a monthly four-issue miniseries, the remaining three issues would logically follow in November 2026, December 2026, and January 2027, matching the release cadence of the two prior Untold Stories minis — though Dark Horse has only officially solicited issue #1 as of this writing.
Writer Torunn Grønbekk (Jane Foster: Valkyrie, Red Sonja, Catwoman) scripts the series, with art by Nataliia Rerekina (The Witcher), colors by Lauren Affe (Count Crowley, Assassin's Creed Mirage: A Soar of Eagles), and letters by Clayton Cowles (Helen of Wyndhorn, FML).
Cowles has lettered both prior Untold Stories minis as well, making him the one creative thread running through all three releases so far.
Dark Horse's official synopsis frames Liliana as the most powerful necromancer in the multiverse, a status she bought by bargaining her soul to four demons: Kothophed, Razaketh, Belzenlok, and Griselbrand. The pact is etched into her skin, and she's spent decades trying to tear it off her, one demon at a time.
This specific series picks up with Liliana's journey to Innistrad, described as the rumored location of Griselbrand, hunting him down to reclaim the piece of her soul he holds. Dark Horse's solicit text adds one more wrinkle worth noting: Liliana is not the only seeker of vengeance walking Innistrad in this story, though the publisher hasn't named who else is involved yet.
Longtime players will recognize the setting immediately: this is the Innistrad era, the same block that gave us the card Liliana of the Veil. The connection isn't a coincidence — Wizards' own 2011 preview material for that card described Liliana arriving on Innistrad for exactly this reason, hunting a demon to reclaim her soul.
What's new here is the format, not the premise. A two-paragraph preview article from over a decade ago is being expanded into 128 pages of actual sequential art across four issues, with room for dialogue, pacing, and visual storytelling that flavor text never had space for.
Issue #1 ships with three cover options: Cover A by series artist Nataliia Rerekina, Cover B by Sibylline Meynet, and Cover C by Abigail Larson. All three are confirmed directly through Dark Horse's own solicitation materials.
We cover the full breakdown of each cover's style and rarity in a dedicated variant guide, worth a look if you're planning to track down more than one printing.
A character-focused tie-in comic for one of Magic's most recognizable planeswalkers is a genuine crossover moment between two collecting communities that don't always overlap: comic shop regulars and card-game players. That overlap tends to create real demand for the first issue specifically, since it's the entry point for both audiences.
Issue #1 of any Dark Horse miniseries also tends to see the highest print run relative to later issues, which is worth keeping in mind if a particular cover catches your eye early rather than waiting.
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October 14, 2026.
Four issues total.
Torunn Grønbekk writes, Nataliia Rerekina illustrates, Lauren Affe colors, and Clayton Cowles letters.
No, it's the third Untold Stories miniseries, after Elspeth and Jace.
Not as of this writing — only issue #1 has an official solicited release date.
While you wait for October 14, keep the cards that inspired this whole story protected with a deck box and binder from EVORETRO's Magic the Gathering Collection.
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