Prepare to encounter enthralling creatures from twisted fairy tales, enchanting forests, and wicked realms with Dungeons & Dragons' latest Magic: The Gathering crossover—Monstrous Compendium Volume Four: Eldraine Creatures. Featuring 25 creatures from Magic's Eldraine setting, this spellbinding collection, priced at $5.99, offers everything from tricky faeries to gargantuan wurms and everything in between.
Whether you're a Magic enthusiast or just looking to grow your bestiary, this assortment of Eldraine creatures will provide plenty of opportunities for unforgettable encounters with creatures taken straight from fairy tales.
25 New Creatures for Your Campaign
Available for $5.99, this Monstrous Compendium is the biggest yet and features 25 unique creatures, complete with stat blocks that range from Challenge Rating (CR) 1/2 to a formidable 18. Each creature's abilities and lore have been crafted from the flavor of the Magic card they are featured in, like how the infamously hasty gingerbrute's Can't Catch Me feature gives it advantage on checks or saving throws to avoid or end the grappled condition.
Even if you and your players aren't familiar with Magic's mechanics or the Eldraine set, these creatures' mix of enchanting allure, magical abilities, and storybook-inspired lore will surely make for memorable encounters.
What Is Eldraine?
Eldraine is a world of fairy tales where valiant knights go on quests, witches brew potions in bubbling cauldrons, and gingerbread men run as fast as they can. First introduced in Magic: The Gathering's 2019 set, Throne of Eldraine, this setting is an enchanting mix of wild, whimsical, and wicked. However, not every story has a happy ending.
In the recent 2023 Magic: The Gathering set, Wilds of Eldraine, Eldraine is recovering from an invasion of a multiversal scourge known as the Phyrexians. This means that opulent castles now lie in ruin, and the factions that held order in Eldraine are scattered and weakened. The focus of Wilds of Eldraine turns from lords and ladies to the untamed, darker portions of the storybook setting, where humans live in small bands and have to contend with giants, ogres, trolls, and worse.
Ideal for Fairytale and Feywild Campaigns
If you're currently running a campaign set in the Feywild or planning to explore the Wild Beyond the Witchlight adventure, this compendium is a treasure trove of fairytale creatures. Each creature is perfectly adapted to fey settings, offering intriguing hooks for quests, unexpected allies, and formidable foes that align with the untamed magical landscapes of the Plane of Faerie.
These creatures are also ideal for running in campaigns that draw from various mythologies and storytelling traditions, including those rooted in fairy tales, such as Arthurian legends or Grimm's Fairy Tales. Whether or not you think strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is a sound basis for a system of government, it does make a great story hook!
Bring Feywild Creatures to Your Table!
Monstrous Compendium Volume Four: Eldraine Creatures offers a magical experience for Dungeon Masters and players looking to dive deeper into the wild and untamed realms of the faeries in D&D. Grab your copy today and let the enthralling encounters in the mystical lands of Eldraine begin!
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Posted Sep 21, 2023This
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Posted Sep 21, 2023And again people are *****ing about WoTC, this is great value for money, I'm sold.
Keep it up!
I'd be more than happy to add an extra 25 statblocks to my library for $6 every couple of months.
Haters are going to hate, but I love it
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Posted Sep 21, 2023I mean it IS cool, but I'm already gonna be broke from buying $130+ dnd books
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Posted Sep 21, 2023While I agree that some fans can be especially entitled about the content Wizards puts out, I'm still rather disappointed by this, which feels like the latest in a series of missteps with the Monstrous Compendium label in particular, a label which I had once considered to be an excellent means of supporting the fanbase and the game.
I don't object to the concept of having to pay for a supplement or even the price point for the value of what we're getting, mind you, but as a Magic-based supplement, I would have preferred it to be offered under the old "Planeshift" label or an original label entirely if you're gonna go that route. This gradual shifting of priorities for the Monstrous Compendium label - first in moving away from making it a monthly series, then in moving away from it acting as bonus material for newly released content in favor of facilitating the promotion of other games entirely, and finally moving away from it being free to begin with - strikes me as a mistake, plain and simple. Thinking about it now, the "Misplaced Monsters" label they used for their most recent Extra Life project would probably have been better for the Minecraft mobs and this supplement, considering that they're creatures taken from other games, and that Extra Life project could have been Monstrous Compendium Vol. 3 while leaving room for a Far Realm-inspired Vol. 4 to tie in to Phandelver and Below or a Planescape-inspired Vol. 4 to tie in to that. Repurposing that label for a supplement like this just feels like a rather inefficient and shortsighted decision to me.
But eh, what do I care? I'm not buying any of this stuff anyway. =p
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Posted Sep 21, 2023Buying only because of the Monty Python reference
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Posted Sep 22, 2023I hope in the future we can see a new monster compedium based in other no-D&D franchise, for example Gamma World, or d20 Future, or a reimagined version of fogorten Hasbro's IPs, for example Robotix or Inhumanoids, or Golden Girl and the Guardians of the Gemstones. (now Golden Girl sounds horrible, and it makes me remember the 80's sitcom).
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Posted Sep 22, 2023Agreed. These releases used to be or at least the sales went towards a charity or something.
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Posted Sep 22, 2023The Mythic Odysseys of Theros campaign setting book describes another Magic: The Gathering plane called Theros, that does take a lot of inspiration from Greek/Roman mythology. I know there is also a plane called Kaldheim that is inspired by Norse mythology, and one called Lorwyn that has some ties to Celtic culture, but i don't believe there are D&D crossovers for those planes yet. There's plenty of lore already though, so I'm sure someone could homebrew something.
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Posted Sep 22, 2023Eldraine campaign guide please?
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Posted Sep 22, 2023there is small guide about Eldraine but it is made for MTG's player https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/planeswalkers-guide-eldraine-2019-10-31
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Posted Sep 22, 2023If I am going to fork over cash for Eldraine I want a proper 250+ page book. With art and world details with maps. A short introductory adventure.
And where are the sourcebooks for Dominaria, Kaldheim, Kamigawa, or Innistrad? How about a nice fat book of 500 pages to cover all the MTG planes? Do that and I might consider making a few 5.99 microtransactions.
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Posted Sep 22, 2023loving more MTG > DnD content!
5 color mana spell point variant rules on DMsGuild also converts spellcasting to color mana.
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Posted Sep 22, 2023All previous Monstrous Compendiums have been free to subscribers. Now you want us to pay $6 for them? Not good for customer loyalty nor for your public image. Suggest you reconsider, at least for paid subscribers.
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Posted Sep 22, 2023Outrageous, the compendiums used to be free, why did you do this, if you put a price then make a full Eldraine book like Theros.
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Posted Sep 22, 2023If you don't like the content, don't buy it. Not everything in life is free.
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Posted Sep 22, 2023If it makes anyone feel better the Extra Life was $5.95 for 6 monsters. Buying just the monsters from a sourcebook is typically $9.99. I feel like $5.99 for 25 monsters is not terrible.
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Posted Sep 23, 2023Mythic odyssey of Theros is greek-roman based setting :)
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Posted Sep 24, 2023Well, how wouldn't it! I'm particularly looking forward to the forthcoming Goblin masterpiece, Kygzoz "yes, it was the middle one" Bushcharmer's "The art of not being seen."
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Posted Sep 24, 2023I really wish they would not link things to Magic the Gathering. I don't want that game in my games. If they had just made this as a book on its own I would have actually paid a lot more for it. Linking it to magic leads me to just home-brewing my fairy tales.
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Posted Sep 24, 2023Eldraine, while similar to the feywild, has no connection to that plane. So why is it in the title?