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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Lol a few years too late for that.
Yeah, kinda weird how unlike most sourcebooks it doesn't seem to list the available creatures. I'm sure it can be googled, but this is really poor business practice on Wizards' part. Paying six dollars for 25 mystery creatures that might not even fit in my settings is absurd.
It's also worth noting that the DMG has some very slight references to Norse mythology: Ysgard, the world tree planar organization style, and the dwarven thrower are all based on Norse mythology.
As with most things in life, there will be times where a company shows their greed by adding fees here. Raising prices there. Most normal people will see this and voice their displeasure. But there will be a few contrarians that will pop up to say they actually like greed and you are entitled for not paying for something that was free. I truly can't wait for OneD&D or whatever it's called to be a microtransaction nightmare so those same people can keep that energy.
Charging $6 for this is just bad business. It is phase one of their reworked plan for micro transactions. If it wasn’t for the amazing people who work there like Jeremy, Chris, James, Todd, and the like, I would have stopped giving them my money.
Sounds super cool, shame I wont be able to use it as the free compendium has been rolled back.
Gooseamat?
You can view the list of new monsters in Monsters section on DDB using the proper source filter: Eldraine monsters
View the art by clicking on the thumbnail next to name of the monster.
So, you prefer to be charged for "everything" all at once, even if it contains content you don't want to pay for? That seems... odd.
Also, "micro" transactions have been available on DnDBeyond for a long time. I've bought parts of books as gifts for some people, and I appreciate that I didn't have to pay for the whole book. But hey, if you prefer a dystopian economy with limited choices, YDYB.
This one cost money where previous compendiums didn't. True. But, we've also had a free adventure called 'Lightning Keep' appear today. This approach seems like it could work.
If, moving forward, we got a mix - say, there's a free short adventure but you have to buy the monster compendium this month BUT next time, there's a free monster collection and a buy-able adventure, or - I don't know - a starter town, a collection of quirky NPCs (that could give hints about an upcoming product (kinda like what they did with the Honour Among Thieves film)), or a dossier detailing the secret lair of a demon-lead thieves' guild and it's top five deadly trouble-shooters, surely that would be good? How about if it was like yes it's $6.99 [or whatever reasonable price for the amount of content] but the map(s) will immediately be available to play in D&D Beyond Maps? (or - getting OTT perhaps, recorded dialogue or background music).
How many times have you watched a thing online about D&D and then the person talking says something like "and if you like what you've heard here, why not buy my PDF magazine with 3 news feats, a subclass and a short adventure." If it's good for the multi-headed goose, why can't it be good for the D&D-Beyond-gander?
There was a series of historical supplements for second edition AD&D (green books). Before using them you probably want to do a Cultural Sensitivity read as 2nd edition has a rant in the PHB on how "he/him/his" is the gender-neutral pronoun in American English. Also, I'd cross-reference the details in the source books with information from an actual history or mythology textbook.
Celts - HR3 9376
Viking - HR1 9322
Oh, come on. All of the other Monstrous Compendiums were free, why not this one?!
To be honest, if you count Irish mythology as Celtic, the fey in general are Celtic mythology
Nah man, I'm saying Hygoosedra.
This should be FREE wtf wizards!?! These have always been free online, we can just go make our own home brews of these exact same creatures and use them… you’re really gonna charge us for this when they have ALWAYS BEEN FREE???? I’ve been a master tier subscriber for years now and never seen a charge for one of these
For anyone who has managed to get over the "but why doesn't this business provide me with everything I need for free?!" phase of the collective reaction here:
I forked out the money for this and have read it through. It has some of the best statblocks I've seen in ages and I'm very happy with what I've got for the £4.50 or whatever it was it cost me. I pay more for a coffee.
A welcome ying to the embarrassing yang that is the Maps release.
It needs a campaign setting book to go along with this.
I'm calling the goose the Heca-honk-eires
Because they're encouraging you to transplant Eldraine creatures to your D&D campaign as Feywild creatures.