Escaping Barovia

For Season 4, there is an alternative option (affectionately?) known as Barexit.

Downtime Activity: Escape the Mists

A character with the Demiplane of Dread story award can gain the Escape the Mists story award after paying 20 Downtime days to leave Ravenloft. The Downtime day cost is modified as follows-

• +10 Downtime Days: Touched by the Mists – For each time the character has died, been brought back to life by the mists, and gained the Touched by the Mists story award.

• +5 Downtime Days: Enmity of Jeny Greenteeth – A character with the Enmity of Jeny Greenteeth story award (from 04-06 The Ghost) has not only angered the hag, but the mists themselves.

• +5 Downtime Days: You Murderer – A character with the You Murderer story award (from 04-08 The Broken One) has killed villagers of Orasnou. The Dark Powers grip on them is tight.

• +5 Downtime Days: Cursed by Greed – A character with the Cursed by Greed story award (from 04-09 The Tempter) has given in to greed at the behest of the Dark Powers. Leaving Ravenloft will be difficult as a result.

• +10 Downtime Days – Escape the Mists – Each time a character escapes the mists, but then returns to Barovia, escaping again gets progressively harder.

If a character does not have enough Downtime days to escape the mists, they are stuck in Barovia forever. To gain downtime days, a player should play more Curse of Strahd adventures or be a Dungeon Master to gain DM rewards (Downtime) to award to a character to escape Barovia.

Ending the Death Curse

For Season 7, the Death Curse will end for any character who wants it to end after Tier 3 content is published - this is detailed in the Adventurers League Players Pack. The catch is that a character who opts to "wait it out" can then never be used in Season 7 Tier 1 or Tier 2 content or the Tomb of Annihilation hardcover. In effect, those missions were done by "other people" and the character's personal timeline has advanced beyond that point. (DDAL timelining is a little wibbly-wobbly, but them's the breaks.)

The Death Curse in Barovia

A character who is subject to the wasting effect of the death curse (i.e. has previously died, and is losing maximum HP) is still subject to it while in Barovia. However, a character who has not died and has the death curse cannot be consumed by the soul monger - it doesn't reach across planar boundaries. Such a character (assuming they are raised while in Barovia) will begin to waste away when they return to the Realms.

Should be viable

Wild Shape allows for to:

...retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can’t use any of your special senses, such as darkvision, unless your new form also has that sense.

Fey Step (From the official release of the Eladrin subrace of Elves in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes) is a racial feature and does not seem to be generated by a physical feature.

As a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Once you use this trait, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Physical basis?

Whether or not the Eladrin trait to Misty Step is something inherent or a physical aspect of their being is not clarified (like darkvision), but it is reasonable to allow this interaction as there doesn't seem to be a specific physical association with the Fey Step, it's just part of their abilities (like Halfling Luck).

Confusion from Example Subrace from the DMG

The DMG, under Part 3 (Master of Rules) includes a section on Creating New Character Options (page 186.) In this section, they provide some examples to help guide a DM in homebrewing - but these are not official subclasses. In this section, they provide an Eladrin (as well as Aasimar) with different rules than the final published official Subclass options for those races, but do note that these are only example to help guide homebrew on how to create a subrace and not an official subrace for player use.