D&D General Teased Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Supplement Crosses Magic: the Gathering and D&D

WotC has teased an upcoming Magic: The Gathering / Dungeons & Dragons crossover supplement. No info has been given other than a mention of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor and an art piece by Jesper Ejsing.

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Lorwyn-Shadowmoor is a Magic: the Gathering plane. The official MtG page for it describes it as:

Lorwyn is an idyllic world where races of fable thrive in perpetual midsummer. Its dark reflection, Shadowmoor, exists in perpetual gloom, its citizens bitterly transformed and locked in a desperate battle for survival.

Lorwyn is the land where the sun never set. Covered with dense forests, meandering rivers, and gently rolling meadows, it knows no nights or winters. One of the few planes without humans, it's populated by the short-statured kithkin, hot-tempered flamekin, petty-thief boggarts, territorial treefolk, diplomatic merfolk, iconoclastic giants, and mischievous faeries, all living together in harmony.

Also among them: the elves, Lorwyn's most favored and feared race. In a world of unspoiled nature, they consider themselves the paragons of this beauty. Signs of elvish supremacy are widespread, from their gilded forest palaces to their mercilessness toward "lesser" races. Despite the elves' dominion, Lorwyn's people thrive, respecting community and tradition.

The land itself, ancient and verdant, is locked in a perpetual cycle—and every three centuries, that cycle transforms the plane into Shadowmoor.

The mirror-image of Lorwyn, Shadowmoor is a realm of perpetual dusk and gloom. Here, the plane's races, without knowledge of their previous selves, are locked in a life-and-death struggle for survival. Like the plane itself, its denizens are transformed into darker versions of themselves.

The kithkin, once communal and cooperative, are isolated and xenophobic. The helpful, silver-tongued merfolk are now assassins and saboteurs. The boggarts, once mischievous and hedonistic, are vicious and warlike. The blighted treefolk are murderous. Wrathful giants drag around huge pieces of the land.

The transformations of the flamekin and elves are perhaps the most dramatic. Once bright and seeking transcendence, the flamekin are now smoking skeletons seeking revenge. Meanwhile, the vain elves are humbled and heroic in Shadowmoor, protecting every glimmer of beauty and light.

Only one race and one place remain unchanged: the faeries and their home of Glen Elendra. The fae are the fulcrum of this transforming plane—for it was their queen, Oona, who caused it.


This isn't the first such crossover--Ravnica, Strixhaven, and Theros were all Magic: the Gathering settings. Additionally, over the past few years, WotC has put out PDF D&D supplements for the MtG worlds of Amonkhet, Dominaria, Innistrad, Ixalan, Kaladesh, and Zendikar.
 

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They were also doing that well while being available a much shorter period of time.
That doesn't really hold. They have all been out for years. '18, '20, & '21. While Spell Jammer is newer and came out in '22 but it has done better than both Theros and Strix.

Alpha Stream also includes the data for the first 4 weeks of sales and the first 52 weeks. But about all that does is move SCAG from first to much lower. Though that can probably be explained by being the first setting book available in 2015 and when the D&D market was a fraction of what it was circa 2020.

Though I will admit, if you want another MtG crossover, you can certainly find reasons to justify it.
 



I've read a bit of this thread early on, but is it confirmed that this is actually going to be a setting book ala Theros and Ravnica? or is it TBD what format this takes?
 


I noticed they said "supplement", not book, which is odd...
Hmm. So it could be digital only, like the supplements they put out a decade ago or so. But, it also makes sense as a hardcover.

I sense that WotC is fishing for more worlds, and with the departure of (can't remember his name) may be less likely to go with new ones, and more likely to go with Magic settings.
 



I feel surprised but not excited. I see the Shadowmoor like a softer version of Shadowfell for low level PCs.

Let's remember Lorwynians elves have got horns, like tielflings. and there is an upcoming M:tG set. Maybe there are some changes in the lore, or even in the cosmology of M:tG multiverse

I don't feel confortable with the idea of natives from Lorwyn becoming "Mr. Hide" but certain hour or date has arrived. How could be affected a cosmopolitan hero group when they were affected by the great Aurora? And what if there is a mixed group of natives and foreigns?

A right setting needs space to allow different independent plots without links to the main story.

A D&D Bloomburrow would be possible if they could fix about PC species with that size differences.

Here are the species I expect from the book, Kithkin won't be halfling lineage, they didn't share a creature type in MTG, Flamekin/Cinders will be a species, they are different enough from Fire Genasi to be their own thing, likely with the Elemental creature type, Groundlings as a kind of Faerie that doesn't have flight, fey creature type, Boggarts with lineages, they could just do Goblins, but they seem too different even from other MTG Goblins for that, not sure return of Deurgar, maybe Noggle & Ouphe. Really outside chance of Demigods.

Elves I think they will just use the regular lineages, refluffed.

Unfortunately Merfolk have fish tails and Tree Folk are just too big.

They might introduce new species Lorwyn/Shadowmoore like how they did for Amonkhet & Kaladesh/Avishkar in Aetherdrift.

Here is the list of creature types I found with Lorwyn.


Kithkin

Giant

Archon

Shapeshifter

Elemental

Insect

Merfolk

Treefolk

Bird

Spirit

Elf

Cat

Angel

Faerie

Kraken

Beast

Goblin

Plant

Zombie

Ouphe

Demon

Specter

Hound

Imp

Dwarf

Dragon

Wurm

Spider

Troll

Incarnation

Avatar

Horror

Hag

Noggle

Scarecrow

Golem
 

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