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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I don't recall this being brought up as an idea, but

what if the Lorwyn-Shadowmoor tease is that it's in a larger book with elements from multiple settings. That would explain why there wasn't mention of L-S as a book.
Doesn't strike me as likely: I think it is more odd thst people are reading "suplement" as somehow not referencing a book, when we already knew there was a mystery October book with an announcement being held back?

Lorwyj as the sole focus makes sense since it is a Setting with so many potential Monster stst blocks and new Species, and further from D&D norms.
 

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Doesn't strike me as likely: I think it is more odd thst people are reading "suplement" as somehow not referencing a book, when we already knew there was a mystery October book with an announcement being held back?

Lorwyj as the sole focus makes sense since it is a Setting with so many potential Monster stst blocks and new Species, and further from D&D norms.
We don’t know that this is the October product. It sounds quite early in development to me. And WotC seem to be experimenting with different ways of presenting settings in this sub-edition. We have a slim (paperback?) for Eberron and a two book pair for the Forgotten Realms. I’m not convinced WotC are going to revert to the old one standalone setting in a single A4 hardback format so quickly.
 

We don’t know that this is the October product. It sounds quite early in development to me. And WotC seem to be experimenting with different ways of presenting settings in this sub-edition. We have a slim (paperback?) for Eberron and a two book pair for the Forgotten Realms. I’m not convinced WotC are going to revert to the old one standalone setting in a single A4 hardback format so quickly.
Well, we know there is a book on October that they did not want to talk about quite yet a couple weeks ago: and that is about when the Lorwyn card set was supposed to drop until quite recently.

Waiting until MagicCon to actually announce the Magic tie-in seems likely, and indeed our speculation around the Octover Surprise focused on a Magic tie-in being the likely product.
 

Well, we know there is a book on October that they did not want to talk about quite yet a couple weeks ago: and that is about when the Lorwyn card set was supposed to drop until quite recently.

Waiting until MagicCon to actually announce the Magic tie-in seems likely, and indeed our speculation around the Octover Surprise focused on a Magic tie-in being the likely product.
I think you may be adding 2 and 2 and getting 5. There are other possibilities that are not ruled out, including that this was originally scheduled for October but is delayed to 1Q 2026 like the cards.
 

I think you may be adding 2 and 2 and getting 5. There are other possibilities that are not ruled out, including that this was originally scheduled for October but is delayed to 1Q 2026 like the cards.
They announced that there is a secret October book coming like 2 weeks ago, when they let us know Eberron is coming in August. It was odd that they would let us know that a book was coming in October specifically, bit not give any details on it...but now it makes sense, since they were holding it till MagicCon. I seriously doubt that they would announce a 2026 book and leave the October book a continued mystery.

Admittedly, that is still an unproven assumption at this point...but I won't believe otherwise until there is proof, frankly.
 

I think you may be adding 2 and 2 and getting 5. There are other possibilities that are not ruled out, including that this was originally scheduled for October but is delayed to 1Q 2026 like the cards.
For clarity, here is what we learned about the October Surprise just a few weeks ago:

Wizards of the Coast is adding two Dungeons & Dragons books to its 2025 slate, including Eberron: Forge of the Artificer in August and an unnamed mystery book in October..

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While no other details were provided for the October mystery book, EN World received a host of new details about the rest of D&D's 2025 slate during a press visit to Wizards of the Coast's new office headquarters last week.
 

For clarity, here is what we learned about the October Surprise just a few weeks ago:
So, just a few weeks ago they were talking about an “unconfirmed mystery book”. And it is still a mystery. If it was this, why not say so? It seems unlikely to be another setting book, with three already confirmed for that period. And the best time to release an MtG product is at the same time as the tie-in cards.
 
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So, just a few weeks ago the where talking about an “unconfirmed mystery book”. And it is still a mystery. If it was this, why not say so? It seems unlikely to be another setting book, with three already confirmed for that period. And the best time to release an MtG product is at the same time as the tie-in cards.
Well, two FR books represents two halls of one product, in essence. And the Eberron book is being called a supplement to Rising from the Last War, rather than a big full Setting book.

It is a lot of Setting material...but not all aimed at the same audience necessarily. I doubt they expect everyone to buy all three, but they never do.

They released three full back-to-back Setting books between late 2019 and Summer 2020: Eberron, Wildemount, and Theros all came out within a short window, and would have come out in quicker succession except for COVID.

As to why they haven't clarified it: they didn't share much of anything they said at MagicCon, where they went to punp up the hardcore Magic fan base about an upcoming D&D tie-in. I am sure within the next 8 months we will hear plenty.
 

No it wasn't, it just ruined a whole bunch if settings. In theory, the idea of it seemed, cool until you saw alot of cool stuff you'd growled to love just absolutely ruined.
If you didn't care for the Phyrexian invasion plot line, that's fair . . . but a lot of folks really liked it, myself included.

RPG settings with metaplots can be problematic as we learned in the 90s . . . but Magic settings are different, as each new Magic release strives to be different from what came before in many ways.

For me, and other fans, having the Phyrexians . . . some of the creepiest and horrifying villains of all time . . . invade the entire multiverse was epic and very cool, and also a callback to the earlier Phyrexian invasion storylines from Magic's past.

When adapting a Magic setting to D&D . . . I'm fine with the new book working from the most recent canon of a particular plane or setting, in this case, a merged Lorwyn and Shadowmoor. What would be really cool is if the new book gave us options whether to run the setting as originally presented in the card game, or the most recent incarnation. We'll see.

What would be amazingly cool is if WotC gave us a separate "Phyrexian Invasion" book detailing Phyrexia, Phyrexians, with guidelines on having Phyrexia invade any setting, including your own campaign!
 

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