Holy War X magic

Every magic shown

Full Counter, Sunshine and Heavenly Body were named in polls and plans in 2021 and 2022 and have not been shown. On 30 April 2026 the developer said there are “many magics in the oven” so that every race has several at release.

How magic works

• It follows your race. Magics are race locked and come from the same spins as races. Races.
• Each move has versions. “If you press it once or if you hold it or if you use in the air, it all changes a bit.”
• Every set ends in an ultimate, and ultimates get wilder with rarity.
• Magic extends combat; it does not replace it. The core is weapon and fist combos. You charge magic, and you put stat points into your magic reserves to lean on it. Combat.
• Magics carry their own status effects. Fire burns and can be rolled out; corrosion is harsher; Goddess Love charms.
• Your mana takes the colour of your magic, including the glow on a Holy Knight katana.

Blaze

Blaze replaced what early builds called fire magic. The May 2025 video goes through it:

Ice

The developer calls Ice the easiest set for showing how tap and hold differ:

• First move. Tapped, a short burst in front of you that knocks back. Held, a projectile for range.
• Second move. Tapped, a combo extender right in front of you. Held, it travels, so you can close distance and keep the combo.
• Third move. Blockable when tapped. Held, it becomes a block breaker, so a long wind-up is your cue to leave or parry.
• Ultimate. A hailstorm cutscene, meant for the end of a combo.

The automatic captions garble the names of Ice’s moves, so we have not printed them. In April 2026 the set was adjusted because it “wasn't working too well in testing sessions”, and a new clip of the ultimate was posted.

Thunderbolt and Break

These are the two the developer keeps for a “mythical magics” video that had not been released by 15 November 2026. What is public: Thunderbolt has chained moves, where using the first move before the second changes the second; a snippet from October 2023 showed lightning dashes with a cooldown after about five; and in stormy weather a Thunderbolt user can “call down and ride” a thunder dragon, which is also part of the ultimate. For Break, one move was shown: tapped it can be blocked, held it breaks block.

Goddess magics

Goddess Love (November 2023) is a support magic with two effects: Charmed, a debuff that lowers the damage the charmed target does to you while raising what you do to them, and a blessing that buffs damage and defence.

Light and Acid were shown in 2022 as common goddess magics. Light had rapid-fire orbs usable in flight, a purge and a beam ultimate; Acid had a poison mist, a block-breaking acid dragon and a geyser. Both are from before the 2023 rework and have not been shown since.

Synthesis and the rest

Synthesis is the fairy answer to the potion system: “you can load up the potions into the gun and then fire them at people”, for example a potion that draws every hostile mob in the area onto your target. How potions are made.

Magic orbs are not a magic but a weapon type for magic builds. They do little damage on their own, scale with the stats you put into magic, and exist mainly to start magic combos. Weapons.