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, 2023Dang, this sounds hecka cool. I wonder, will there be mythology like Greco-Roman, Celtic, and Norse? That would be cool. Anyways, there oughta be something real wicked and hecka powerful. (I haven't even watched the stupid video yet.)
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Posted Sep 21, 2023Weren’t the Monstrous Compendium PDFs offered as FREE downloads. To keep people using this website? Come on Wizards don’t start nickel and dimming the community!
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Posted Sep 21, 2023$6? How about free instead like the spelljammer setting or dragonlance setting compendium.
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Posted Sep 21, 2023I mean I wish it was a whole setting book, but 25 new monsters is nothing to sneeze at.
Hopefully if this does well we might see "Knight's guide to Enchanted Eldraine" one day.
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Posted Sep 21, 2023Considering this is cross promotion with another product from the same company I would think it would have been given FREE as a way to get MTG players interested in D&D and vice versa. But I guess it is true what they say that WOTC really want more money from the player base. ( Considering some previous cross promotion stuff with MTG was better such as the Planeshift series and was given FREE )
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Posted Sep 21, 2023This hurts to use the Monsterous Compendium name when the first three were free at release
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Posted Sep 21, 2023Ardenweald??? eldraine would make a fantastic campaign setting, along with a good monsters manual.
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Posted Sep 21, 2023There's no Norse or Celtic yet as far as I know, but the Theros sourcebook should have you covered for the Greek-style mythology (should you find yourself needing more than the Medusas, Hydras, etc. already in the Monster Manual)
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Posted Sep 21, 2023Neat, but why are we backtracking on the Monstrous Compendiums being free? I thought the appeal was to draw people into maintaining a D&DBeyond subscription, but now we have to pay to view the content that we already need to pay to use.
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Posted Sep 21, 2023A list of names of the creatures to let us know what we would be getting would be nice. Unless I am missing it somewhere?
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Posted Sep 21, 2023Agree tremendously. It felt like a betrayal almost, when I clicked on the (New!) Monstrous Compendium and realized it wasn't in fact a Monstrous Compendium but a mini-book that has to be paid 5.99 for.
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Posted Sep 21, 2023Vol 1 has 10 creatures.
Vol 2 has 11.
Vol 3 has 5.
Vol 4 has 25 for $6. That's 25 cents per creature.
While I LOVE free stuff, I don't think Wizards is being unreasonable.
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Posted Sep 21, 2023I know, I saw the title and got happy and then they hit me with the 6 dollar price??? And it's mtg too 😭😭😭😭
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Posted Sep 21, 2023Right? I don't get some of the users on here. Anytime a new feature or content comes out there are always the complainers, whining about not getting things for free. WoTC has to pay people to come up with and produce these things. I'm sure the complainers wouldn't expect to work for free.
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Posted Sep 21, 2023All the previous Monsterous Compendiums were FREE!!! IIRC, DDB made a big deal about them being free, when they originally started the project. And now they're sticking them behind a paywall, when WotC/Hasbro are already in hot water for the various stunts they pulled??!
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Posted Sep 21, 2023How would they double profit off their MTG art in this instance? This is a completely new product based on cards from MTG. And, all of the art can be found for FREE on WotC's website here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/wilds-of-eldraine/card-image-gallery
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Posted Sep 21, 2023If you go to Game Rules, it will give you the option to view monsters. If you look through the smaller search categories you can type the name of this new thing in Sources and it will show you all the monsters.
I looked through them and they look sick!
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Posted Sep 21, 2023Oh, can't wait to reskin a chimaera or hydra with the multi-headed goose!
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Posted Sep 21, 2023MTG does have a Norse and Celtic Myhtology world but nothing that has interjected with D&D yet. Kaldheim and Lorwyn are the planes to look at for that stuff though.