Worlds fraught with dangerous monsters and powerful magicians, adventures waiting beneath every cobbled stone and nighttime alley, and heroes pending their chance to prove themselves. The rich lore and vibrant planes of Magic The Gathering have ever lent themselves to players' imaginations. It makes sense, and so, that such fantastical locations would make for some incredible campaign settings for the most popular tabletop role-playing-game on the planet: Dungeons & Dragons.

Magic The Gathering now has nine of its lore-rich planes written and prepared for Dungeons & Dragons, though some of them are meliorate resources than others, owing to the fact that fully-fledged source books have only simply started releasing. Several of these planes were written out past James Wyatt as companion books to their more detailed corresponding Art Of Magic The Gathering books. These miniature source PDFs, called Aeroplane Shifts, are not quite every bit in depth as the later hard encompass books, but even so offering you plenty of inspiration in bringing these settings to your Dungeons & Dragons campaign (DMs have a range of tools available to them to help with these things).

9 Aeroplane Shift: Innistrad - Victorian Vampires and Werewolves

Magic the Gathering Ghost Quarter from Innistrad by Peter Mohrbacher. An abandoned cart in a gothic Victorian setting. A full moon shines on the ghosts that occupy the town.
Ghost Quarter from Innistrad by Peter Mohrbacher, from Magic the Gathering

The aeroplane of Innistrad is no stranger to the world of Dungeons and Dragons. This Aeroplane Shift PDF flushes out an interesting world that the Curse of Strahd adventure inhabits. Vampires, werewolves, and eldritch-inspired Edrazi provide an interesting Victorian gothic source book that outlines ane new background, the Inquisitor, and provides backstory on several enemy factions and their purposes and goals.

An optional sanity score system outlined in chapter ix of the Dungeon Master's Guide is highly encouraged, with a physical corruption system to run alongside it that is detailed in this PDF. Notwithstanding, The Expletive Of Strahd hazard book, which has gone through a revamp since its release, already serves as a good source book in and of itself. While the Airplane Shift: Innistrad adds some things, ultimately it is not as content-heavy equally the other source books.

8 Plane Shift: Dominaria - As Close To Dungeons & Dragons As It Gets

Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep by Grzegorz Rutkowski, from Magic the Gathering a massive fish with glowing runes on its rocky dorsal fins
Slinn Voda, the Ascension Deep by Grzegorz Rutkowski, from Magic the Gathering

In the introduction to Plane Shift: Dominaria, the writer James Wyatt describes the airplane equally "as close as Magic comes to the classic fantasy that D&D draws from." This is reflected in this thin-source-material PDF, every bit he encourages extensive employ of the established Dungeons and Dragons class, race, and monster resources, more so than even in other Plane Shift source books.

While this source book offers great detail on several of the factions within Dominaria, as well every bit offer great depth for creating thespian characters, NPCs, villains, faction specific adventure hooks, and fifty-fifty a world map, it doesn't offer much else. You will have to create much of your own content if you choose to use Dominaria as your next campaign'southward setting.

7 Airplane Shift: Kaladesh - Land Of Technology And Invention

Weldfast Wingsmith by Dan Scott, from Magic the Gathering. A person with scarlet and gold mechanical wings takes flight and waves to the onlookers below.
Weldfast Wingsmith by Dan Scott, from Magic the Gathering

The aeroplane of Kaladesh is full of inventors and tinkers, but has a lack of mages. This source book encourages the sparse use of bards, warlocks, and wizards, and outlines that both clerics and paladins aren't really existent on the plane. If you choose to run your entrada using this plane, either your players will need to know these limitations, or you can choose to ignore them.

If you do run your entrada using this source volume, there are several campaign ideas and hazard hooks nowadays, a new feat chosen Quicksmithing that allows players to go tinkerers regardless of their class, and 2 new character races; the Aetherborn and the Vedalken. Withal, y'all will need to seriously consider how your players experience about several magical classes being stripped from their character options before stepping into this campaign setting. That said, information technology's a unique challenge you and your players may enjoy.

6 Plane Shift: Zendikar - Exploring A Wild Frontier

Stasis Snare by Jason Felix, from Magic the Gathering. An eldritch Eldrazi is being bound by humans who have lashed together a magical prison.
Stasis Snare by Jason Felix, from Magic the Gathering

Zendikar, the country torn apart past the Eldrazi titans once imprisoned there. This source volume details much almost this Magic plane and its inhabitants, going as far equally to offering four new graphic symbol races, several cardinal locations, and adventure hooks.

Plane Shift: Zendikar has ane of the largest bestiaries found in whatever of the plane shift source books. Information technology either outlines new stat blocks, or provides plenty of optional stat blocks for each enemy that can exist found in the Monster Manual. There are plenty of take a chance hooks and campaign ideas for you and your players that involve delving into ancient ruins, uncovering the mysteries behind the Eldrazi, and devising a programme to cease them earlier they exit Zendikar.

5 Plane Shift: Amonkhet - Pharaohs and God-Dragons

Hazoret's Monument by Richard Wright, from Magic the Gathering. A sphinx-like monument looks over a city while a red sun rises.
Hazoret'due south Monument past Richard Wright, from Magic the Gathering

Amonkhet, where ancient Egyptian-inspired myth comes to life. This source book contains several detailed backgrounds and a campaign hook set against the Trials of the Five Gods. Additionally, there are several character races included, similar the Jackal inspired Khenra, or the serpentine Naga races. All fascinating options.

It too details a campaign claw that revolves around each player playing a Planeswalker from each of the previously detailed planes like Dominaria, Innistrad, and Zendikar. Information technology all bridges Magic's player stories with Dungeon and Dragons adventures on another level.

4 Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos - Going Back To College

Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos Cover by Magali Villeneuve. Three students study magic in a library while a small gargoyle is bored.
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos Embrace by Magali Villeneuve

Strixhaven is the almost recent hardbound source book that brings the Magic The Gathering aeroplane Arcavios to Dungeons & Dragons. Dissimilar the aeroplane shift books, which are gratis to download and only 30-forty pages long on average, Strixhaven is a fully fleshed out setting and rule volume with over 200 pages filled with defined adventures, new mechanics, backgrounds, items and monsters.

Strixhaven is set in a magical schoolhouse made up of five colleges, each with its own specialty. Additionally, information technology introduces a new social system, encouraging your players to pursue extracurricular activities to gain an advantage in their fields of interest, which you can use to create some awesome social encounters in your entrada. However, for a hardbound source book, information technology may not have as much content equally y'all're hoping for.

three Plane Shift: Ixalan - Pirates Vs. Dinosaurs

Growing Rites of Itlimoc by Grzegorz Rutkowski, from Magic the Gathering. Mages create a single tree in the middle of the desert. Tall dinosaurs roam in the background.
Growing Rites of Itlimoc by Grzegorz Rutkowski, from Magic the Gathering

An incredibly long and detailed sourcebook that introduces Ixalan, the land of pirates, treasure, and dinosaurs, into Dungeons & Dragons. It contains a comprehensive guide to factions, with class and race leanings, ideals and bonds. Very similar to Dominaria, all in all, but running about twice as long. Also, like the Dominaria aeroplane shift, Ixalan comes with a map, several interesting locations for your players to explore, as well as amply-sized bestiary and treasure tables.

Information technology also dedicates a large department at the end of the source book that details how to take Magic The Gathering's v color mana bike and apply it to Dungeons & Dragons. This allows you to brand not merely characters, but NPCs, allies, and villains that experience authentic to the Magic universe in a mode other source books vicious short of.

2 Guildmasters' Guide To Ravnica - Dense Street Factions

League Guildmage by Svetlin Velinov, from Magic the Gathering. A young inventor wears an electric-sparking gauntlet in their steampunk workshop.
League Guildmage by Svetlin Velinov, from Magic the Gathering

Guildmasters' Guide To Ravnica was the first hardcover source book released for a Magic plane. Set against a sprawling city with warring factions that encompass all classes and races Dungeons & Dragons already offers, it also includes five new races and two new subclasses for the Cleric and Druid classes. This guidebook too has a defended section to help y'all create hazard hooks and campaigns using the guilds establish in Ravnica.

The Guildmasters' Guide To Ravnica is a great place for Dungeons and Dragons players to dive into one of Magic's more intrigue-filled planes. Notwithstanding, it may non be the best selection for Magic players looking to hop into Dungeons and Dragons for the outset fourth dimension.

i Mythic Odysseys Of Theros - Servants To The Gods

Stern Dismissal by Lie Setiawan, from Magic the Gathering. A giant goddess pours an urn filled with the stars onto the ground. A centaur falls from the urn like a speck of sand.
Stern Dismissal by Prevarication Setiawan, from Magic the Gathering

A Magic plane inspired by ancient Greek mythology that makes an excellent Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook. This final hardcover book contains two new races and three reprinted ones from Guildmasters' Guide To Ravnica, two subclasses for the Bard and Paladin classes, and an expansive bestiary that contains mythic level monsters.

New and fleshed out systems fix this book apart, including a Piety mechanic where you lot can choose a god to curry favor with and utilize their awesome power. It will exist perfect for whatsoever of your campaigns, even one that isn't set in the intriguing Theros.

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