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Magic will let your wizards cast a variety of spells, giving temporary bonuses, information or damaging your enemies.

All spells cost mana, which is produced by Towers and Wizard Guilds. The cost of each spell is based on a multiplier of your land size.

Self Spells[edit]

Self-spells can't be cast on other dominions. They can normally be refreshed when their remaining duration is below the full duration of the new cast, subject to any cooldown. Amplify Magic cannot be recast while active.

Spell	Cost Multiplier	Duration	Effect	Notes
Gaia's Watch	2x	12 hours	+10% food production.
Ares' Call	2.5x	12 hours	+10% defensive power.
Midas Touch	2.5x	12 hours	+10% platinum production.	Cancels Cull the Weak
Mining Strength	2x	12 hours	+10% ore production.
Harmony	2.5x	12 hours	+50% population growth.
Fool's Gold	1x	10 hours	Prevents platinum theft.	20 hour cooldown; Cannot be cast during protection
Surreal Perception	3x	12 hours	Reveals the name of dominions performing ops on you.
Energy Mirror	4x	12 hours	Reduces enemy spell damage by 15% and enemy spell duration by 1 hour.
Amplify Magic	0.5x	6 hours	Your next non-cooldown self spell costs +100% mana and lasts +50% longer.	Cannot be cast during protection; Removed when a qualifying spell is cast

Surreal Perception[edit]

Each Op comes with its own notification in the Recent News. For information ops, these notifications are as follows:

Op	Text
Clear Sight	A magical presence was detected within our advisor's quarters. Our wizards have determined that DOMINION (#X) was responsible!
Disclosure	A magical presence was detected within our hero's quarters. Our wizards have determined that DOMINION (#X) was responsible!
Revelation	A magical presence was detected within our towers. Our wizards have determined that DOMINION (#X) was responsible!
Vision	A magical presence was detected within our schools. Our wizards have determined that DOMINION (#X) was responsible!
Barracks Spy	A hostile presence was detected within our barracks. Our wizards have determined that spies from DOMINION (#X) were responsible!
Castle Spy	A hostile presence was detected within our castle. Our wizards have determined that spies from DOMINION (#X) were responsible!
Land Spy	A hostile presence was detected amongst our lands. Our wizards have determined that spies from DOMINION (#X) were responsible!
Survey Dominion	A hostile presence was detected amongst our buildings. Our wizards have determined that spies from DOMINION (#X) were responsible!

Friendly Spells[edit]

All friendly spells cost 3% Wizard Strength to cast, and can only be cast by Court Mages or Grand Magisters, as well as between Chaos League members in the same realm.

Spell	Cost Multiplier	Duration	Effect	Notes
Spell Reflect	2x	3 hours	Reflects the next war or black-op spell.	3 hour cooldown; Target will know who tried to cast the reflected spell
Arcane Ward	1.5x	6 hours	+5% chance for hostile spells against the target to fail.	3 hour cooldown
Illumination	1.5x	6 hours	+5% chance for hostile spy operations against the target to fail.	3 hour cooldown

Offensive Info Spells[edit]

Spell	Cost Multiplier	Effect
Clear Sight	0.5x	Shows the target dominion's status/advisor screen.
Vision	0.5x	Shows the target dominion's researched techs.
Revelation	1x	Shows spells currently affecting the target dominion.
Disclosure	0.5x	Shows the target dominion's hero.

Offensive Duration Spells[edit]

Spell	Cost Multiplier	Duration	Effect	Notes
Plague	3x	8 hours	-50% population growth.	Non-war black op; war can extend duration
Insect Swarm	3x	8 hours	-15% food production.	Non-war black op; war can extend duration
Great Flood	3x	8 hours	-25% boat production.	Non-war black op; war can extend duration
Earthquake	3x	8 hours	-5% gem production and -5% ore production.	Non-war black op; war can extend duration

Offensive Damage Spells[edit]

Spell	Cost Multiplier	Effect	Notes
Disband Spies	3.5x	Turns 2% of the target's spies into draftees.	War-only black op
Fireball	3x	Deals base damage equal to 5% of the maximum vulnerable peasant pool, capped by the peasants currently above the protected floor; also destroys food and contributes to Burning.	War-only black op
Lightning Bolt	3.25x	Damages Science, Keep, Forges, and Walls by 0.2% each and contributes to Lightning Storm.	War-only black op
Cyclone	2x	Deals wonder damage.	Wonder spell

Vulnerability and Damage Scaling[edit]

As of Round 40, Fireball and Lightning Bolt now utilize the following effects:

Burning: status effect (spell). Increases Fireball damage by 100 %, applies Rejuvenation upon expiration. Grants immunity to Lightning Storm. Lasts for 20 hours, plus one hour per four full days after day 4, up to 10 extra hours, before other duration modifiers. Extended by 12 hours in mutual war and when declaring war.
Lightning Storm: status effect (spell). Increases Lightning Bolt damage by 50 %, applies Rejuvenation upon expiration. Grants immunity to Burning. Lasts for 20 hours, plus one hour per four full days after day 4, up to 10 extra hours, before other duration modifiers. Extended by 12 hours in mutual war and when declaring war.
Rejuvenation: status effect (spell) with 48 hour duration, increases population growth by 200%, reduces spell damage by 75%, immune to Burning and Lightning Storm, cancelled if target's realm declares war.

Burning or Lightning Storm will trigger once 20 Fireballs or Lightning Bolts respectively are cast on a target within a single tick, or up to 30 of the same spell within 24 ticks, while War is active. The time within the tick does not matter: a spell at 10:01 server is counted the same as a spell at 10:57 server.

Fireball protects a floor based on maximum peasant population. Spires reduce the initially vulnerable half of maximum peasants. Wizards then protect 5 peasants each, with 15 extra protected peasants for up to 6 wizard equivalents per Wizard Guild. Archmages count as two wizard equivalents. Damage is capped by the number of current peasants above the protected floor.

Lightning Bolt can destroy Science, Keep, Forges, and Walls only while their current combined total exceeds the protected baseline: 80% of total historic investment excluding current Spires and Harbor. Wizard Guilds and Spires reduce Lightning Bolt damage, rather than lowering this investment floor. Wizard Guilds contribute up to 50% damage reduction, and total spell damage reduction is capped at 80%.

For example, with a maximum peasant population of 20,000, 500 wizard equivalents, no Wizard Guilds, and a 10% Spires bonus, the protected floor is 20000 * (1 - 0.5 * 0.9) + 500 * 5 = 13500. At full population, 6,500 peasants are vulnerable.

Total peasant protection cannot exceed 80% of maximum peasants, so at least 20% of maximum peasants remains vulnerable. This protection limit is separate from the 80% cap on spell damage reduction.

Energy Mirror does not reduce vulnerability, but does reduce damage. This effectively means it takes more spells for the casters to drop someone to their minimum amount of peasants or investments. Rejuvenation, the Wizard Academy Wonder, and the Weather Manipulation tech (Lightning Bolt only) also only reduce damage. This effect can stack up to 80 % reduced damage.

Disband Spies does not use the vulnerability mechanics and always does the same base amount (2 % of target's spies) of damage, adjusted by damage reduction. (I.e. Energy Mirror, Rejuvenation, etc.)

Racial Spells[edit]

Some races have access to one or more racial self-spells.

Spell	Race	Cost Multiplier	Duration	Effect	Notes
Crusade	Human	5x	12 hours	+10% offensive power.
Favorable Terrain	Nomad	5x	12 hours	+1% offensive power for every 1% barren land, maximum +10%.
Miner's Sight	Dwarf, Gnome	5x	12 hours	+20% ore production and prevents ore-production damage.
Killing Rage	Goblin	5x	12 hours	+10% offensive power.
Alchemist Flame	Firewalker	5x	12 hours	+12 platinum production per Alchemy and +25 Forges points per Alchemy each hour.
Erosion	Lizardfolk, Merfolk	2.5x	12 hours	25% of captured land is automatically rezoned into water.
Arcane Infusion	Icekin	5x	12 hours	Allows training Archmages directly from draftees at a base cost of 1,400 platinum each.
Bloodrage	Orc	5x	12 hours	+10% offensive power and +10% offensive casualties.
Unholy Ghost	Spirit	5x	12 hours	Enemy draftees do not participate in battle.
Finders Keepers	Halfling	2.5x	12 hours	+10% theft gains, +10% theft chance, and theft costs 1% less strength.
Howling	Kobold	5x	12 hours	+10% offensive power and +10% defensive power.
Verdant Bloom	Sylvan	5x	12 hours	35% of captured land is automatically rezoned into forest.
Regeneration	Troll	5x	12 hours	-25% combat casualties.
Feral Hunger	Lycanthrope	5x	12 hours	Werewolves convert enemy peasants into Werewolves, up to 1 per 16 sent.
Spellwright's Calling	Dark Elf	5x	12 hours	Wizard Guilds produce Spellblades and +5 raw mana per hour.	Cannot be cast during protection
Gaia's Light	Wood Elf	2.5x	12 hours	+30% wizard power and -10% spy power; cancels Gaia's Shadow.
Gaia's Shadow	Wood Elf	2.5x	12 hours	+30% spy power and -10% wizard power; cancels Gaia's Light.
Death and Decay	Undead	5x	6 hours	Doubles food and lumber decay and converts 0.5% peasants into Skeletons each hour.	24 hour cooldown; Cannot be cast during protection
Feast of Blood	Vampire	5x	12 hours	Increases unit conversions by 25% and applies Satiated Thirst after attacking: -10% offensive power for 48 hours. Neither effect applies against targets below 75% of your size.
Infernal Command	Demon	5x	12 hours	Infernal Imps receive -0.5 offense and Archdemons need no boats.

WPA[edit]

The wizard ratio or Wizards Per Acre (WPA) is an important factor in the success of offensive spells. If your WPA is higher than that of your target, you are more likely to successfully cast spells on them. Each archmage counts as 2 wizards.

WPA = ((Wizards + (2 * Archmages))*(1 + [Wizard Power Bonus])) / Land

Wizard races (Sylvan and Dark Elf) naturally have higher wizard ratios because their defensive elite units count as partial wizards.

Because their elite offensive units rely on a high WPA, Icekin attackers must have a very high WPA.

For other races, a WPA of 0.3 to 0.6 is normally sufficient for info-ops, but results will vary depending on targets.

Wizard Strength[edit]

Wizard strength starts at 100% and decreases with every spell cast (including self-spells). Information ops decrease your wizard strength by 2% while self spells and offensive spells decrease your strength by 5%. Wizard strength recovers by 4 percentage points per hour, plus racial and tech bonuses and up to 2 points from Wizard Mastery at 1,000 mastery. While strength is below 30%, each 100 Resilience adds another recovery point. No spells may be cast below 30% wizard strength.

Formula[edit]

The chance of success is determined through one of two formulas. See Formula page for details.

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 == Self Spells ==
-Self-spells can't be cast on other dominions. You can recast these once there are less than 12 hours remaining on the duration.
+Self-spells can't be cast on other dominions. They can normally be refreshed when their remaining duration is below the full duration of the new cast, subject to any cooldown. Amplify Magic cannot be recast while active.
 {| class="wikitable"
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 == Friendly Spells ==
-All friendly spells cost 3% Wizard Strength to cast, and can only be cast by [[Monarchy#Court|Court Mages or Grand Magisters]], as well as between [[Guard|Shadow League]] members in the same realm.
+All friendly spells cost 3% Wizard Strength to cast, and can only be cast by [[Monarchy#Court|Court Mages or Grand Magisters]], as well as between [[Guard|Chaos League]] members in the same realm.
 {| class="wikitable"
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 | Disband Spies || 3.5x || Turns 2% of the target's spies into draftees. || War-only black op
 |-
-| Fireball || 3x || Kills 5% of unprotected peasants, destroys food, and contributes to Burning. || War-only black op
+| Fireball || 3x || Deals base damage equal to 5% of the maximum vulnerable peasant pool, capped by the peasants currently above the protected floor; also destroys food and contributes to Burning. || War-only black op
 |-
 | Lightning Bolt || 3.25x || Damages Science, Keep, Forges, and Walls by 0.2% each and contributes to Lightning Storm. || War-only black op
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 As of Round 40, Fireball and Lightning Bolt now utilize the following effects:
-* Burning: status effect (spell). Increases Fireball damage by 100 %, applies Rejuvenation upon expiration. Grants immunity to Lightning Storm. Lasts for 20 hours, plus 1 hour for every four days from day 4 onwards. Extended by 18 hours in mutual war and when declaring war.
+* Burning: status effect (spell). Increases Fireball damage by 100 %, applies Rejuvenation upon expiration. Grants immunity to Lightning Storm. Lasts for 20 hours, plus one hour per four full days after day 4, up to 10 extra hours, before other duration modifiers. Extended by 12 hours in mutual war and when declaring war.
-* Lightning Storm: status effect (spell). Increases Lightning Bolt damage by 50 %, applies Rejuvenation upon expiration. Grants immunity to Burning. Lasts for 20 hours, plus 1 hour for every four days from day 4 onwards. Extended by 18 hours in mutual war and when declaring war.
+* Lightning Storm: status effect (spell). Increases Lightning Bolt damage by 50 %, applies Rejuvenation upon expiration. Grants immunity to Burning. Lasts for 20 hours, plus one hour per four full days after day 4, up to 10 extra hours, before other duration modifiers. Extended by 12 hours in mutual war and when declaring war.
 * Rejuvenation: status effect (spell) with 48 hour duration, increases population growth by 200%, reduces spell damage by 75%, immune to Burning and Lightning Storm, cancelled if target's realm declares war.
 Burning or Lightning Storm will trigger once 20 Fireballs or Lightning Bolts respectively are cast on a target within a single tick, or up to 30 of the same spell within 24 ticks, while War is active. The time within the tick does not matter: a spell at 10:01 server is counted the same as a spell at 10:57 server.
-Additionally, only a certain percentage of peasants, as well as Castle investments, are vulnerable to being attacked by Fireball and Lightning Bolt.
+Fireball protects a floor based on '''maximum''' peasant population. Spires reduce the initially vulnerable half of maximum peasants. Wizards then protect 5 peasants each, with 15 extra protected peasants for up to 6 wizard equivalents per Wizard Guild. Archmages count as two wizard equivalents. Damage is capped by the number of current peasants above the protected floor.
-* 50 % of a Dominion's Peasants are vulnerable to Fireball. Every Wizard - or 0.5 Archmage - protects 5 peasants from being burnt through Fireball. This increases to 20 peasants per Wizard per Wizard Guild, at a maximum of 6 Wizards per Wizard Guild.
-* 20 % of total Castle investments in Science, Keep, Forges, and Walls are vulnerable to Lightning Bolt. This amount (in numbers) is reduced by 10 % per 1 % Wizard Guilds, to a maximum of -50 %.
-This is then further adjusted by the victim's Spires, multiplicative. For example: at 20000 peasants, 500 Wizards, no Wizard Guilds, and 10 % Spires, the amount of vulnerable peasants comes out to: <code> (20000 * 0.5 - (500 * 6)) * 0.9 = 6300</code> vulnerable peasants. Similarly, a castle with 10 million investment points in Science, Keep, and Walls, and 1 % Wizard Guilds and 5 % Spires, would have <code> 10000000 * 0.2 * 0.9 * 0.95 = 1710000</code> investment points vulnerable, down from 2 million baseline.
+Lightning Bolt can destroy Science, Keep, Forges, and Walls only while their current combined total exceeds the protected baseline: 80% of total historic investment excluding current Spires and Harbor. Wizard Guilds and Spires reduce Lightning Bolt damage, rather than lowering this investment floor. Wizard Guilds contribute up to 50% damage reduction, and total spell damage reduction is capped at 80%.
-Both vulnerabilities can be reduced down by 80 % in total, meaning a maximally protected Dominion will have 10 % of their peasants still vulnerable (20 % of 50 % is 10 %) and 4 % of their relevant Castle investments (20 % of 20 %).
+For example, with a maximum peasant population of 20,000, 500 wizard equivalents, no Wizard Guilds, and a 10% Spires bonus, the protected floor is <code>20000 * (1 - 0.5 * 0.9) + 500 * 5 = 13500</code>. At full population, 6,500 peasants are vulnerable.
+Total peasant protection cannot exceed 80% of maximum peasants, so at least 20% of maximum peasants remains vulnerable. This protection limit is separate from the 80% cap on spell damage reduction.
 Energy Mirror does not reduce vulnerability, but does reduce damage. This effectively means it takes more spells for the casters to drop someone to their minimum amount of peasants or investments. Rejuvenation, the Wizard Academy Wonder, and the Weather Manipulation tech (Lightning Bolt only) also only reduce damage. This effect can stack up to 80 % reduced damage.
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 | Erosion || [[Lizardfolk]], [[Merfolk]] || 2.5x || 12 hours || 25% of captured land is automatically rezoned into water. ||
 |-
-| Blizzard || [[Icekin]] || 5x || 12 hours || +15% defensive power. ||
+| Arcane Infusion || [[Icekin]] || 5x || 12 hours || Allows training Archmages directly from draftees at a base cost of 1,400 platinum each. ||
-|-
-| Alchemist Frost || [[Icekin]] || 5x || 12 hours || +15% platinum production. ||
-|-
-| Arcane Infusion || [[Icekin]] || 5x || 12 hours || +1400 train archmages from draftees ||
-|-
-| Mechanical Genius || [[Gnome]] || 5x || 12 hours || -30% rezoning cost. ||
 |-
 | Bloodrage || [[Orc]] || 5x || 12 hours || +10% offensive power and +10% offensive casualties. ||
 |-
 | Unholy Ghost || [[Spirit]] || 5x || 12 hours || Enemy draftees do not participate in battle. ||
-|-
-| Defensive Frenzy || [[Halfling]] || 5x || 12 hours || +20% defensive power. ||
-|-
-| Frenzy || [[Halfling]] || 2.5x || 12 hours || +20% spy power and -10% spy losses on failed operations. ||
 |-
 | Finders Keepers || [[Halfling]] || 2.5x || 12 hours || +10% theft gains, +10% theft chance, and theft costs 1% less strength. ||
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 | Verdant Bloom || [[Sylvan]] || 5x || 12 hours || 35% of captured land is automatically rezoned into forest. ||
 |-
-| Warsong || [[Sylvan]] || 5x || 12 hours || +10% offensive power. ||
+| Regeneration || [[Troll]] || 5x || 12 hours || -25% combat casualties. ||
-|-
-| Regeneration || [[Troll]] || 5x || 12 hours || -30% combat casualties. ||
 |-
 | Feral Hunger || [[Lycanthrope]] || 5x || 12 hours || Werewolves convert enemy peasants into Werewolves, up to 1 per 16 sent. ||
-|-
-| Ascendance || [[Dark Elf]] || 5x || 12 hours || Surviving Swordsmen can upgrade into Spellblades at 8%. ||
 |-
 | Spellwright's Calling || [[Dark Elf]] || 5x || 12 hours || Wizard Guilds produce Spellblades and +5 raw mana per hour. || Cannot be cast during protection
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 | Death and Decay || [[Undead]] || 5x || 6 hours || Doubles food and lumber decay and converts 0.5% peasants into Skeletons each hour. || 24 hour cooldown; Cannot be cast during protection
 |-
-| Feast of Blood || [[Vampire]] || 5x || 12 hours || Cancels Vampire immortality and lets Vampires convert enemy peasants, up to 1 per 10 sent. ||
+| Feast of Blood || [[Vampire]] || 5x || 12 hours || Increases unit conversions by 25% and applies Satiated Thirst after attacking: -10% offensive power for 48 hours. Neither effect applies against targets below 75% of your size. ||
 |-
-| Infernal Command || [[Demon]] || 5x || 12 hours || Infernal Imps gain +0.5 offense, Archdemons need no boats, and invasions apply Corruption. ||
+| Infernal Command || [[Demon]] || 5x || 12 hours || Infernal Imps receive -0.5 offense and Archdemons need no boats. ||
 |}
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 Wizard strength starts at 100% and decreases with every spell cast (including self-spells). Information ops decrease your wizard strength by 2% while self spells and offensive spells decrease your strength by 5%.
-Wizard strength refreshes by 4% every hour but this can be increased with [[Buildings|Guilds]], [[Resilience|spy resilience]], and [[Teching|techs]]. No spells may be cast if your wizard strength is below 30%.
+Wizard strength recovers by 4 percentage points per hour, plus racial and tech bonuses and up to 2 points from Wizard Mastery at 1,000 mastery. While strength is below 30%, each 100 [[Resilience]] adds another recovery point. No spells may be cast below 30% wizard strength.
 == Formula ==