The Magus Circle Spells — All 20 Sigils, Upgrades and Mana Rules

How the Spell System Works

The Magus Circle builds its combat around hand-drawn casting. You do not press a key to fire a spell; you draw that spell's sigil with your cursor and release to submit it, and the official store page lists the result as 20 unique spells augmented by 600 possible upgrades. That combination is the whole build space: a small, memorable spell list sitting under a very large upgrade pool, with the drawing check as the execution layer on top.

The store page is also clear that the drawing is not meant to be a skill gate. Its first feature bullet says you do not need to be an artist and that even the most crudely drawn sigils still hold magic, which matches what demo players reported — one called the recognition quite permissive, with chain lightning as the notable exception, and put their own success rate above 80 percent.

System fact	Official detail
Spell count	20 unique spells
Upgrade count	600 possible upgrades
Cast method	Draw the spell's sigil with the cursor, release to submit
Drawing difficulty	Positioned as forgiving; crude sigils still cast
Spell source	A starting set plus new spell scrolls found by exploring the hub
Carry limit	Not published; demo players reported running three to four spells comfortably because drawing the rest costs attention

Every Spell Documented So Far

No official source publishes the full list of 20 spells, so this table collects the ones that are explicitly named in the demo footage or in the official patch notes. Effects are described as the game described them to the player at the time, and the numbers attached to a spell in a demo video are demo values rather than verified 1.0 values.

Spell	What it does, as documented	Where it is documented
Magic Missile	Fires a continuous stream of arcane projectiles from your cursor that target nearby enemies; the demo tooltip read 5 damage, 5 seconds, 10 mana	Demo gameplay tooltip (values to confirm for 1.0)
Fireball	Throws a fireball that explodes at the target location, damaging and burning monsters	Demo gameplay tooltip
Frost Nova	A blast of ice that damages and freezes monsters where you cast it	Demo gameplay tooltip
Thunderstorm	Periodically strikes three random monsters with lightning	Demo gameplay tooltip
Riptide	Summons a surge of water in a direction of your choice, damaging and pushing monsters	Demo gameplay tooltip; fixed in the 1.0.3 hotfix
Meteor Shower	Meteors fall from the sky, striking random areas around you for heavy damage and burning monsters	Demo gameplay tooltip
Ice Spear	Summons two spears of ice that periodically attack the strongest monsters and pass through them	Demo gameplay tooltip
Chain Lightning	Strikes the closest monster, then chains to the next closest one	Demo gameplay tooltip; named by players as the hardest glyph to draw
Ink	Throws a blob of ink that deals area damage on impact and leaves a field that slows monsters; direct hits deal double damage	Gameplay footage from the launch build
Exsanguinate	Not documented by description; known from the 1.0.3 balance note that reduced its area of effect by 25 percent	1.0.3 hotfix notes
Prismatic Gale	Not documented by description; known from the 1.0.3 note that it no longer costs mana	1.0.3 hotfix notes

Upgrades, Mana and Level-Ups

Upgrades arrive through the level-up loop rather than a shop. You draw a circle around your character to level up, then choose from the options the game offers, and the choices observed in the demo read like a bullet-heaven pool: spell-specific modifiers, elemental riders, stat multipliers and a small number of unusual effects. Because the store page counts 600 possible upgrades against 20 spells, most of the pool is made of modifiers for spells you already own, which is what makes a single run feel like a build rather than a shopping list.

Observed upgrade	Effect as the game described it	What it supports
Mana regeneration	Plus one mana regeneration, and a separate double mana regeneration while invulnerable	Any spell-heavy build, since running dry is the most common complaint
Mana efficiency	25 percent mana efficiency, and a separate minus 50 percent mana efficiency option	Longer casting windows between mote pickups
Spell power per active spell	Plus 10 spell power for each active spell	Wide builds that keep several spells running
Spear count	Plus one ice spear, stacking repeatedly	A dedicated ice spear build, the clearest snowball in demo footage
Elemental riders	Spell sigils poison, freeze, burn or spook monsters, depending on the pick	Turning the sigil itself into an area effect
Stun and crit	Percentage chances to stun, critical chance and critical damage, some conditional on elites	Burst against elites and bosses
Meteor rider	Meteors leave a field of fire that burns monsters	Layering damage with Meteor Shower
Duration and size	Flat additions to spell duration, spell size and attack rate, some tied to kill counts	Sustaining a small number of spells rather than adding new ones

The mana economy is the part beginners underestimate. Spells cost mana, mana regenerates passively, and motes dropped by monsters refill it when you walk over them, so your real casting budget is a function of how aggressively you collect during a fight. The demo thread includes a player who found an uncapped mana regeneration interaction and finished a run at 2,200 mana, and another who asked for levelled-up spells to be rerollable because only three or four spells were practical to maintain.

What the Patches Changed, and What Is Missing

The launch-week patch notes are the closest thing to an official spell list, because they name individual spells while describing the fixes and balance work.

Change	Patch	Date
New spell scrolls become acquirable by exploring the hub	1.0.3	September 25, 2026
Prismatic Gale no longer costs mana	1.0.3	September 25, 2026
Exsanguinate area of effect reduced by 25 percent	1.0.3	September 25, 2026
Ink base area increased and Inky Area scaling decreased	1.0.3	September 25, 2026
Riptide fixed	1.0.3	September 25, 2026
Star-shaped shielded enemies removed	1.0.3	September 25, 2026
Spell descriptions showing large decimal numbers fixed	1.0.4	September 27, 2026
Spell balance planned by changing behaviour rather than only numbers	Future updates post	Posted on the Steam hub

What is not documented yet:

• The full list of 20 spells with their official names.
• The sigil shape for each spell, and whether shapes are fixed.
• Mana costs, damage and duration values for the shipped 1.0 build, which differ from demo numbers.
• Whether custom or combined sigils will be added — a demo player asked for exactly that, and the developer replied that feedback was being worked on without promising the feature.