Dark Horse Comics and Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast are launching Magic: The Gathering: Mage of Zhalfir, a twelve-issue series chronicling Planeswalker Teferi Akosa, Dark Horse announced. Issue #1 streets January 20, 2027 for $4.99 and is available to preorder at local comic shops.
Creative team
Award-winning writer Ray Fawkes (Batman: Eternal, Black Hammer ’45) scripts the series, lettered by AndWorld Design. Issues 1–4 are illustrated by Rapha Lobosco (ThunderCats, Vampirella) with colors by Jão Canola. Issue #1 features cover art by Paris Alleyne and a variant by Mateus Manhanini. Later-issue artists beyond the #1–4 Lobosco block were not detailed in the announce.
Solicit premise
Young Teferi Akosa studies at the Tolarian Academy on Dominaria under master Planeswalker Urza. The announce frames an ambitious mage who knows he is destined for greatness — and notes that manipulating time and space is delicate work with consequences.
