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This is a guide for the best teams and loadout for Magna in Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN). Learn which combatants are best to pair with Magna, as well as recommended cards, partners, and equipment.

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Summary			Best Team			Best Cards			Best Partner
Memory Fragment				Equipment				Playstyle

Build Overview

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Character	Partner	Equipment
		The Flower of Life Mask of Flames The Golden Rule
Memory Fragments and Stat Priorities
Tetra's Authority Set Cursed Corpse Set Executioner's Tool Set		1. Justice Damage % 2. Crit Chance % 3. Crit Damage % 4. Defense
Cards and Epiphanies

Note: Magna's performance will significantly improve if Frost Charge has a Draw 1 Divine Epiphany.

Magna's best build focuses on inflicting Vulnerability to all enemies to increase the damage of her counterattacks and the damage of her party members while providing them shields.

For her Memory Fragments, our setup works best with a 2/2/2 set using Tetra's Authority, Executioner's Edge and Cursed Corpse. This lets you amp her defensive stat and give her more damage to her attacks while being able to reach the 300 defense stat for her last potential node.

Her favored chaos zone is Swamp of Judgment to get her best equipment such as The Flower of Life for 50% additive damage buff if the party is at full HP. Mask of Flames to get 35% multiplicative damage buff against enemies with Vulnerability and The Golden Rule for 20% additive damage buff to all of Magna's attacks and shield gain.

Date	Changes
01-15-2026	・Updated build overview ・Added more alternative team members ・Changed best cards ・Changed best partner to Wilhelmina ・Changed best equipment to Swamp of Judgment ・Added alternative budget equipment ・Added stat priority ・Changed best build tips and playstyle
11-18-2025	・Added Magna build overview ・Reworked Magna's best equipment ・Revised Magna build page layout

Magna Best Team

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Summary			Best Team			Best Cards			Best Partner
Memory Fragment				Equipment				Playstyle

Main DPS	Support
Haru	Mika

Magna's best team is Haru and Mika since she excels in maintaining shields and accumulating counterattacks that can turn into devastating AoE damage which both character lacks. However, what she needs is single-target damage and AP recovery, which Haru and Mika can provide.

Haru's cards revolve around dealing heavy-single target damage and enhancing it further with Magna's Vulnerable application increasing her damage by 50% multiplicatively. Mika's cards can provide AP for the party letting either Magna setup her shields and Ice Wall or Haru's Anchor Shot.

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Alternative Team Members

Character	Explanation
Yuki	Yuki can replace Haru as the Main DPS. She makes use of Magna's AoE Vulnerable infliction while her cards also has high damage multipliers, increasing her damage more.
Khalipe	Khalipe can replace Haru as the Main DPS. She works the same as Yuki as she has access to AoE defense-based damage that can make use of Vulnerability and also provide more shield to the party.
Kayron	Kayron can replace Haru as the Main DPS. The same as Haru, he has access to attack cards with high damage multipliers. Swap him if you are against enemies weak to Void attacks.
Amir	Amir can replace Haru as the Main DPS. She can provide more shield gain and damage reduction and make use of Vulnerability with her AoE multi-hit defense-based attack. However, you will lose single-target damage.
Nia	Nia can replace Mika as the Support. Her playstyle revolves around the Forbidden card, Eternal Hunger to provide the party consistent AP and draw but at the cost of decent healing.

Magna Best Cards

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Summary			Best Team			Best Cards			Best Partner
Memory Fragment				Equipment				Playstyle

Card	Epiphany Effect
Ice Fragment	AP Cost: 2 Tags: Unique, Lead ・2 Crystallization ・At the start of the turn, 200% Defense-based Damage to all enemies
Glacial Iron Fist	AP Cost: 3 Tags: Exhaust ・400% Defense-based Damage ・50% Damage dealt as Fixed Shield (Does not exceed 20% of Max HP) ・Retain Shield for 1 turn
Ice Wall	AP Cost: 2 ・Counterattack applies to all enemies
Frost Charge	AP Cost: 1 ・150% Shield ・3 Vulnerable to all enemies

Magna's best cards and epiphanies revolves around inflicting a lot of vulnerability to increase the damage of her counterattacks and the damage of her party members, and shield gain to get counterattack stacks with Storm of the Bitter Cold and provide protection to her party.

For her Ice Fragment, your best choice is the epiphany that deals a defense-based attack to all enemies at turn end. As for her Glacial Iron Fist, the best epiphany is the one with the exhaust tag as it is better to have it remove for the fight rather than trying to make use of it.

Ice Wall must have the upgrade version to turn her counterattacks to target all enemies and to thin her attack after use. Lastly, Frost Charge must have the epiphany that inflcts more vulnerability and provides more shield to the party.

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Essential Team Cards and Epiphanies

Card	Epiphany Effect
Source of Water	AP Cost: 1 ・Heal 150% ・+2 AP ・On Recover, cost of card -1 for 1 turn
Blessing of Waves	AP Cost: 1 Tags: Retain ・Heal 150% ・+30% Healing equal to number of AP ・Shield equal to Healing amount exceeding max
Tactical Analysis	AP Cost: 0 ・2 Wave ・For 1 turn, +100% own Healing
Anchor Shot	AP Cost: 2 Tags: Pulverize ・320% Damage ・+90% Damage for each time this card has been used (Max 5)
Anchor Pointer	AP Cost: 0 ・From Draw Pile or Graveyard, move Anchor Shot to hand, +25% to Critical Chance of that card for 1 turn
Charge Energy	AP Cost: 1 Tags: Retain ・For 1 turn, +70% Attack card Damage by number of cards in hand

Mika's best cards and epiphanies to get must always be the ones that give the most AP and wave stacks so that both Magna and Haru can use their expensive cards.

Haru on the other hand, must have the Anchor Shot that has increased base damage and damage increase per use so that she can get the most buff from the 50% multiplicative damage buff from Vulnerability. Her Anchor Pointer should have the critical chance buff for a much higher chance of landing a crit.

Magna Best Partner

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Summary			Best Team			Best Cards			Best Partner
Memory Fragment				Equipment				Playstyle

Partner	Details
Wilhelmina	Passive Effect: Tactical Command - The assigned combatant's Defense is increased by 12%. When the assigned combatant targets a Vulnerable enemy, +10% Defense-based Damage of Attack cards. Ego Skill: Battle Command - For 1 turn, 2 Morale For 1 turn, 1 Fortitude

Wilhelmina is the best partner for Magna as she can provide defense stat to Magna and an additive damage buff against targets with Vulnerability on them. Her ego skill can provide morale and fortitude buffs.

At maximum manifest ego, she can provide up to +25% defense to the wearer which can buff Magna's shield gain, counterattacks and defense-based attacks.

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Alternative Budget Partners

Partner	Explanation
Raidel	Raidel is the only 3-star partner for Vanguards. Even as a budget option, he buffs health which Magna does not use because she scale with defense. Therefore, it is much better if you pick a 4-star vanguard partner that you have access to that gives the wearer defense instead of health, counterattack or shield buffs.

Magna Best Memory Fragments

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Memory Fragment				Equipment				Playstyle

The best set combination for this build is Tetra's Authority for more defense stat to Magna, Executioner's Tool for more critical damage for her counterattacks and Cursed Corpse to gain 10% multiplicative damage against enemies with Agony.

You can exchange Cursed Corpse with any 2-set memory fragments such as Seth's Scarab or Healer's Journey depending on what you need for her team.

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Stat Priority

Main Stats	Recommended Substats
Ideal: Critical Chance % Desire: Justice Damage % Imagination: Defense %	・Defense ・Defense % ・Critical Chance % ・Critical Damage %

The main stat and sub stats Magna needs are Justice Damage, Critical Chance, Critical Damage and Defense. Her last potential node needs at least 300 defense which is quite a bit hard to reach if you do not have Magna and her partner at level 60. However, if you have them at level 60, then you only need a few defense substats to reach it.

Magna Best Equipment

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Summary			Best Team			Best Cards			Best Partner
Memory Fragment				Equipment				Playstyle

Weapon	Armor	Accessory
The Flower of Life	Mask of Flames	The Golden Rule

Magna's best equipment can only be found in Swamp of Judgment with The Flower of Life giving her +50% additive damage to all of her cards which also includes her counterattacks as long as the party is at full HP. Mask of Flames to increase damage by 35% multiplicatively against enemies with Vulnerability.

Her best equipment on her trinket slot will be The Golden Rule for +20% additive damage and +20% additive shield gain to all of her cards and effects which includes counterattacks but not crystallization.

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Alternative Budget Equipment

Weapon	Armor	Accessory
Obsidian Sword	Lush Seaweed Armor	Amorphous Cube

If you aren't able to get the best, you can settle for these equipment that some can be found in any chaos zones inside shops. Obsidian Sword to boost the overall damage of all his attacks by 12% multiplicatively. Lush Seaweed Armor for a fixed shield gain after gaining shield from cards and Amorphous Cube gives a permanent +25% additive damage buff to all of his attacks.

Magna Build Tips and Playstyle

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Gain Counterattack Through Storm of Bitter Cold

AoE Counterattack Damage with Ice Wall

Counterattack Consumes Vulnerability

Fixed Damage Does Not Activate Vulnerability

Gain Counterattack Through Storm of Bitter Cold

Once Storm of Bitter Cold is active, this will be Magna's main source of counterattack stacks. Each shield gain through cards will give her 1 counterattack stacks up to a maximum of 10.

Shield Gain Outside of Card Effects Will Not Activate Storm of Bitter Cold

However, Storm of Bitter Cold will not activate if the shield did not come from card effects. Therefore, Crystallization will not give you counterattack at turn end.

AoE Counterattack Damage with Ice Wall

Once Ice Wall is active, every counterattack of Magna will hit all enemies making her more viable in fights against multiple enemies.

Counterattack Consumes Vulnerability

When Magna or any character counterattacks, it will consume a stack of Vulnerability per hit. However, if you have her at Manifest Ego 4, her counterattacks will not consume any stack.

50% Multiplicative Damage to Attack Cards Against Vulnerable Enemies

Attacks against enemies with Vulnerability will increase its damage by 50% multiplicatively. This is the reason why Haru is Magna's best teammate as she has cards that can reach up damage multipliers up to a thousand.

Fixed Damage Does Not Activate Vulnerability

Attack cards or effects that deals fixed damage will not consume Vulnerability stacks and the damage will not increase also.

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Grahm Thoman about 1 month

your shield gain equipment combination isnt possible, chains of obsession cant be obtained with the swinging sword

Anonymous about 2 months

Great build, thanks

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