Issue #1 of Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories—Liliana ships with three distinct covers, and Dark Horse confirmed all three directly in its own solicitation materials rather than through secondhand rumor. That matters for a licensed comic like this one, since variant counts for tie-in books sometimes balloon past what was originally announced.
Each cover artist brings a different visual approach to Liliana, which gives collectors a genuine reason to care about more than just owning a reading copy. This guide breaks down what's confirmed about each one.
We'll also cover what a comic shop pull list typically looks like for a three-cover release like this, since the ratios between covers aren't equal.
As with the complete guide, we're sticking strictly to what Dark Horse has confirmed for issue #1 — covers for issues #2 through #4 have not been solicited as of this writing.
The series' own interior artist illustrates Cover A, which functions as the default main cover most retailers order in bulk. Rerekina's credits include work on The Witcher, and her cover art for issue #1 is the image most commonly used in Dark Horse's own promotional materials.
A main cover by the interior artist typically carries the highest print run of the set, meaning it's usually the easiest and cheapest of the three to track down after release.
Sibylline Meynet illustrates the first of two variant covers for issue #1, confirmed directly by Dark Horse's official announcement alongside Rerekina and Abigail Larson. Variant covers in this print-run tier are typically ordered at a lower ratio than the main cover, making them modestly scarcer on shelves.
Meynet's inclusion alongside two other confirmed artists means collectors chasing a complete three-cover set for issue #1 have a clear, finite target rather than an open-ended variant chase.
Abigail Larson rounds out the confirmed trio with the second variant cover. Larson's work has appeared across several licensed and horror-adjacent comic projects, which fits thematically with a story set on the gothic-horror plane of Innistrad.
Retailer order pages distinguish her cover specifically as Cover C, confirming the same three-way cover structure that Dark Horse's own newsfeed post described.
Direct-market comics use an incentive system where a retailer's advance order volume on the main cover determines how many copies of each variant they're allotted, rather than every cover printing in equal numbers. A smaller local shop ordering conservatively on a licensed tie-in book will often receive few, if any, copies of Covers B and C.
That's worth knowing before assuming a variant will simply show up on the new-release wall — preordering through a specific shop is the more reliable path for Covers B and C specifically.
Both prior Untold Stories minis, Elspeth and Jace, also shipped with multiple cover options per issue, continuing a pattern Dark Horse has stuck to since launching the line. That consistency makes the three-cover structure for Liliana #1 the expected norm rather than a special one-off treatment.
Collectors who already chase variants across the Elspeth or Jace minis will recognize the same ordering dynamics applying here.
Owning more than one cover of the same issue is really a small art collection, and loose comics handled repeatedly for comparison photos pick up wear fast. A rigid frame built for slabbed cards can double as a clean way to display a favorite cover's artwork alongside your Magic collection.
If you're sleeving and bagging multiple copies rather than framing them, pair that storage with graded-grade card sleeves for any key cards from the Innistrad set you're displaying alongside the comics.
Chasing all three confirmed covers for issue #1 means budgeting for roughly three cover-priced copies at $4.99 each before shipping or shop markup, plus whatever premium a specific variant commands once it's harder to find. That's a modest outlay compared to chasing a full set of card variants from the same era.
Shops sometimes bundle all three covers together as a set for new releases specifically because they know cover-completionists exist; asking your local shop about a bundled preorder can save a separate trip for each variant.
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Three confirmed covers: A by Rerekina, B by Sibylline Meynet, and C by Abigail Larson.
Cover A, since main covers by the interior artist typically carry the highest print run.
Not yet, as of this writing.
No other cover artists have been confirmed by Dark Horse beyond these three.
Keep each cover crisp from the first read-through with a slab-ready frame from EVORETRO's Card Frame and Stand Collection, the same style used by collectors who display graded Innistrad-era cards.
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