Ellywick Tumblestrum is the greatest bard in the multiverse, and joined Idle Champions back in year 4 with her triumphant song! But every performer needs to adjust their shows to make them better for the next tour. So this year Ellywick is getting an update to her set list during Ahghairon's Day!

I. Ellywick Tumblestrum

Thanks to a lucky draw from the notorious Deck of Many Things, Ellywick Tumblestrum is now the Greatest Bard in the Multiverse! Her magnificent music has dazzled beings across many planes, including royalty from the Feywild. The Summer Queen and the Queen of Air and Darkness were so moved by her performance that they gifted the bard her exquisite instrument, the beautiful lute Morningmist. She tells tales of her amazing adventures at the Witchlight Carnival, aided by her frog companion Groak.

Ellywick is a Support, Gold Find, and Healing Champion who uses the Deck of Many Things to augment her abilities. When you want her bardic skills to inspire your formation, she can be swapped out with Tyril in seat 10.

Check out our Champion Spotlight Video embedded below for a quick overview of Ellywick's abilities, and read on to get all of the details!

II. Ellywick's Stats

Race: Gnome	Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Gender: Female	Pronouns: She/Her
Age: 125	Affiliation: None	Class: Bard

STR: 12	DEX: 17	CON: 14
INT: 13	WIS: 12	CHA: 20

Role: Support, Gold Find, Healing
Eligible for Patrons: Vajra, Strahd, Zariel, Elminster (until August 7th 2027)
Seat: 10 (Tyril)

III. Ellywick's Abilities

Basic Attack

• Quick Strum - Ellywick strums her lute three times in quick succession, sending out three streaks of magical musical energy that damages random enemies; a single enemy can be affected by multiple streaks.

Formation Abilities

• Powerful Following - Ellywick increases the damage of Champions in the column behind her by 100%.

• Fortunate Soul - Gold Find is increased by 50%.

• The Deck Of Many Things - Ellywick draws a random card from the Deck of Many Things after every 25th enemy kill or after 60 seconds, whichever comes first. She can draw up to 5 cards at once and most duplicate card effects stack multiplicatively. Cards are discarded when she uses her ultimate ability, Call Of The Feywild. Her card options are:
  • Knight - Powerful Following +100%
  • Moon - Fortunate Soul +100%
  • The Fates - Other active card effects +5%
  • Flames - Enemies move 100% faster and deal 100% more damage.
  • Gem - Bosses drop 10% more gems

• Greatest Song In The Multiverse - Ellywick counts the total number of cards she has drawn in the adventure. She increases the effect of Powerful Following by 3% for each card she has drawn, stacking multiplicatively and capping at 1,000 cards.

• Call Of The Feywild - Ellywick unlocks her ultimate ability and, when she uses it, discards her current hand of cards. There is an instant effect based on each card discarded:
  • Knight - All enemies currently spawned take 500% more damage from all attacks, stacks multiplicatively.
  • Moon - Instantly drop 10% of the gold from all currently spawned enemies but enemies do not die, stacks multiplicatively
  • The Fates - Champions gain temporary hit points for 50% of their max health, stacks additively.
  • Flames - All currently spawned enemies move 50% slower and deal 50% less damage, stacks multiplicatively.
  • Gem - The next X bosses you fight has their max health reduced by 50%, where X is equal to the number of gem stacks.

Specializations

• For The Fans - Additively increase the odds of Knight cards by 20% (additively reducing the odds of each other card by 5%)

• Faster Tempo - Additively increase the odds of Moon cards by 20% (additively reducing the odds of each other card by 5%)

• All That Sparkles - Additively increase the odds of Gem cards by 20% (additively reducing the odds of each other card by 5%)

Ultimate Ability

• Call Of The Feywild - Ellywick draws six fey creatures to her; they appear on the right side of the screen and dash towards her across the enemies, dealing damage as they pass by. Once they are gathered, Ellywick plays a short solo riff in celebration and then they dash off again to the right, dealing damage to any remaining or newly spawned enemies.

IV. Ellywick's Epic Equipment

Slot 1: Greatest Song in the Multiverse	Slot 2: Deck of Many Things	Slot 3: Powerful Following
Slot 4: Fortunate Soul	Slot 5: Ultimate Damage	Slot 6: Ultimate Cooldown

V. Ellywick's Achievement and Adventure Variants

Achievement:

• Stack The Deck - Have Ellywick draw an entire hand with all 5 of the same cards.

Adventure Variants:

Pixie Trickery -

• One Slot is taken up in the formation by a Pixie riding an intellect devourer, who is along to watch Ellywick do her thing.
• Each time a boss arrives on screen, all Champions are stunned for 5 seconds. If Ellywick is in the formation, the stun does not take effect.
• Area Goals:
  • Tier 1: Complete Area 75.
  • Tier 2: Complete Area 250.
  • Tier 3: Complete Area 600.
  • Tier 4: Complete Area 1200.

Fey Harmonies -

• Ellywick starts in your formation. She can be moved.
• Every area, 2 Satyrs arrive to harmonize. While any Satyrs are on screen, all enemies can only be damaged by bards.
• Only Champions with CHA 14 or higher can be used.
• Area Goals:
  • Tier 1: Complete Area 125.
  • Tier 2: Complete Area 350.
  • Tier 3: Complete Area 800.
  • Tier 4: Complete Area 1400.

Draconic Dissonance -

• Every area (including boss areas), 5 chromatic Dragon Wyrmlings spawn with the second wave. Each type of Dragon buffs the Dragons on screen in a unique way:
• White - When a Dragon attacks, it heals 20% of its health.
• Blue - Increase the normal attack cooldown of Champions by .5 seconds.
• Black - When a non-boss Dragon dies, there's a 25% chance that it immediately respawns.
• Red - Dragons move 100% faster.
• Green - Dragons deal 100% additional damage.
• Area Goals:
  • Tier 1: Complete Area 175.
  • Tier 2: Complete Area 450.
  • Tier 3: Complete Area 1000.
  • Tier 4: Complete Area 1600.

VI. Conclusion

Ellywick's new tour is in full swing! Let us know how much you are enjoying the show:

• The Idle Champions Subreddit or Steam forums.
• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• Our YouTube Channels: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms and CNEGames.
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It's that time of year again when the citizens of Waterdeep come together to celebrate Ahgairon - the first Open Lord of Waterdeep. But this year the Champions don't have time to join in the festivities. The current Open Lord of Waterdeep has an important mission for them, and when Laeral Silverhand calls - the Champions will always answer!

Ahghairon's Day 7 has arrived and we're doing things a little differently this time around! Today, you can unlock a reworked Rust on the Harbour, the Tabaxi Rogue from the Oxventurers, played by Johnny Chiodini. Then, next week on August 14th, you'll be able to unlock a reworked Ellywick Tumblestrum, the Gnome (greatest) Bard (in the multiverse), from Wild Beyond and Witchlight and Magic: The Gathering. Both of these Champions received updates to their mechanics to better fit your formations. You can learn more about Rust in his Champions Spotlight linked below and Ellywick's Champion Spotlight that will go live this Friday, August 9th.

Table of Contents

• Rust on the Harbour
• Ellywick Tumblestrum
• Flex Champions
• Event Theme: Masquerade Ball
• Event Augments

Rust

Rust on the Harbour is a former pirate who gave up a life at sea because it was far too wet. His deadly skills are in contrast to his sweet nature and short attention span, and he enjoys seeing others succeed even if they are supposed to be antagonists. Now trying life as an adventurer on land, he'll lend his roguish skills to anyone who can give him that which his heart desires most: one gold piece.

Rust is a Support and Gold Find Champion whose excitement to find coin helps the rest of the formation increase their gold find. When you need his assistance in the formation, he'll be counting his one gold piece in seat 11, opposite Jamilah.

We are fortunate to get to work with a huge variety of actual play D&D series, but it's a rare treat to be able to include the Dungeon Master as one of the Content Creators who bring a Champion to our game. So we're very happy that this Champion from the Oxventurers Guild from Outside Xbox and Outside Xtra comes from DM Johnny Chiodini! They created Rust as their character for a Saltmarsh campaign, and brought the supportive tabaxi in as an NPC for the Oxventurers to enjoy. Along with their impressive DM skills, Johnny has made content for Eurogamer, GameSpot, and Dicebreaker, and currently creates videos about tabletop and video games for their Patreon.

Learn more about Rust on the Harbour in our Champion Spotlight!

Ellywick Tumblestrum

Thanks to a lucky draw from the notorious Deck of Many Things, Ellywick Tumblestrum is now the Greatest Bard in the Multiverse! Her magnificent music has dazzled beings across many planes, including royalty from the Feywild. The Summer Queen and the Queen of Air and Darkness were so moved by her performance that they gifted the bard her exquisite instrument, the beautiful lute Morningmist. She tells tales of her amazing adventures at the Witchlight Carnival, aided by her frog companion Groak.

Ellywick is a Support, Gold Find, and Healing Champion who uses the Deck of Many Things to augment her abilities. When you want her bardic skills to inspire your formation, she can be swapped out with Tyril in seat 10.

Learn more about Ellywick Tumblestrum when her Champion Spotlight goes live this Friday, August 9th, at 10am PDT!

Flex Champions

Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests during events by choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event. This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of the event as well as some Champions whose events have been retired. This event's Flex Slot pool includes:

Event Theme: Masquerade Ball

Throughout the event, we release new Packs for the featured & flex Champions everyone is unlocking & gearing up. Continuing with Ahghairon's Day, the skins included in these packs will share a new theme!

This month the Champions are getting fancy and going to a Masquerade Ball! Each week you'll find new Masquerade Ball versions of the featured Champions, Rust today and Ellywick next week, as well as select Flex Champions. Adventuring is a dirty job - but that doesn't mean your Champions can't be dressed in their best for it!



Starting today you can find the Masquerade Ball Rust Theme Pack and the Avatar of Azuth Familiar Pack in the in-game store. More Masquerade Ball Skins are coming on August 14th and 21st.

Event Augments

Augment 1: Daily Rewards!
Description: Check back every day to claim daily event rewards!

Day	Reward
August 7 (Wed)	5,000 Event Currency
August 8	1x Rust Gold Chest
August 9	5,000 Event Currency
August 10 (Sat)	2x Rust Gold Chest
August 11 (Sun)	500 Corrupted Gems
August 12	5,000 Event Currency
August 13	2x Supply Chests
August 14 (Wed)	3x Time Gate Pieces
August 15	2x Supply Chests
August 16	5,000 Event Currency
August 17 (Sat)	1x Ellywick Gold Chest
August 18 (Sun)	2x Ellywick Gold Chest
August 19	5,000 Event Currency
August 20	1,000 Corrupted Gems
August 21 (Wed)	3x Time Gate Pieces
August 22	3x Modron Component Chests
August 23	5,000 Event Currency
August 24 (Sat)	3x Ellywick Gold Chest
August 25 (Sun)	3x Rust Gold Chest
August 26	5,000 Event Currency
August 27	1,500 Corrupted Gems

Augment 2: M-M-M-ulti-Tier
Description: Completing an event variant in a high enough area will award multiple tiers of progress



Augment 3: Boon Enhancements
Description: An additional boon buff at each level increases gems dropped from bosses.

Buff	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4
Gem Drops	20%	40%	70%	100%

Augment 4: Worth The Wait
Description: Rebalanced Champion Ellywick releases at the start of week two of this event. Completing her tier 2+ variants awards double chests!.

Ahghairon's Day 7 will be the first Events 2.0 where we are focusing on two Reworked Champions. With this, we are trying out the Worth The Wait Augment, which will see one of these Reworked Champions (Rust on the Harbour) released on August 7th and the second (Ellywick Tumblestrum) released on August 14th. Completing Ellywicks tier 2+ variants will award double chests!

The Champion Spotlights for these reworks will also be spread out, with Rust's releasing tomorrow, August 2nd, and Ellywick's next Friday, August 9th.



You can check which augments are active during an event by mousing over the event banner.

We hope you enjoy these Event Augments and look forward to what future augment possibilities could be!

To learn more about Events 2.0 check out our Blog Post!

Join our amazing community with any of the links below:

• The Idle Champions Subreddit or Steam forums.
• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• Our YouTube Channels: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms and CNEGames.
• Our social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok!

It's the day before Shieldmeet and the Open Lord of Waterdeep has gone missing. Nobody has seen Laeral Silverhand in days, and it is imperative that she be found before the meeting with the Masked Lords begins.

At the behest of the Blackstaff, the Champions are sent to discover what happened...

Midsummer 6 introduces Vin Ursa, a Plasmoid Fighter/Rogue Bounty Hunter - and CNE Original! It also brings back Valentine, the Reborn Half-Elf Sorcerer from The Black Dice Society, and Ellywick Tumblestrum, the Gnome Planeswalker and Greatest Bard in the Multiverse. Players have until Monday, August 7th at 12PM PDT to complete their event unlocks and objectives.

New Champion: Vin Ursa

Vin Ursa is one of the deadliest bounty hunters in Wildspace. Raised by a community of Autognome thieves and trained by a former Xaryxian assassin, Vin is an expert at completing dangerous jobs. To keep her skills honed, she spends much of her off time in the Arena of Blood. If there's one thing you should hope for in Wildspace, it's to avoid ending up on the wrong side of her L.A.S.E.R. sight.

Vin Ursa is a Support and Gold Find Champion who builds up a ledger of Favored Foes as you progress through an adventure. She supports the formation in capturing her Favored Foes and makes sure the extra reward is worth it. Once unlocked, her skills can be hired into slot 7 opposite Minsc.

For more information on Vin Ursa and all of her mental powers, check out her Champion Spotlight!

Year Six Variants

• A New Hope - Search for the absent Open Lord of Waterdeep with Vin Ursa!
  
  • Vin Ursa starts in the formation (Slot 4). She can be moved, but not removed.
• Only Champions in the front two columns can deal damage.
• Complete Area 75.

• The Menagerie - Search for the absent Open Lord of Waterdeep against foes of every type.
  
  • Vin Ursa starts in the formation (Slot 5) with her Bounty Hunter and ultimate abilities unlocked. She can be moved, but not removed.
• Each wave, an extra monster with a random monster type spawns. It drops no gold nor does it count towards quest progress.
• Every 10 areas, all monster health is increased by an additional 100%, stacking multiplicatively.
• Complete Area 125.

• Journey's End - Search for the absent Open Lord of Waterdeep with the Good, the Bad, or the Neutral.
  
  • Vin Ursa starts in the formation (Slot 5). She can be moved, but not removed.
• Only Champions from the most represented alignment(s) on the good/evil axis can deal damage.
• Complete Area 175.

Join our community and discuss these new updates in these spaces:

• The Idle Champions Subreddit or Steam forums.
• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• Our YouTube Channels: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms and CNEGames.
• Our social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok!

See in-game for more information!

It's the day before Shieldmeet and the Open Lord of Waterdeep has gone missing. Nobody has seen Laeral Silverhand in days, and it is imperative that she be found before the meeting with the Masked Lords begins.

At the behest of the Blackstaff, the Champions are sent to discover what happened...

Midsummer 5 introduces Valentine, the Reborn Half-Elf Sorcerer from The Black Dice Society, and brings back Ellywick Tumblestrum, the Gnome Planeswalker and Greatest Bard in the Multiverse, and Beadle & Grimm, the purveyors of the Pandemonium Warehouse and owners of the Giant's Bane Tavern. Players have until Monday, August 1st at 12PM PDT to complete their event unlocks and objectives.

I. New Champion: Valentine

Valentine was once a social butterfly, nightlife connoisseur, and princess of a shady family business until her life ended in sudden tragedy. Through the mysterious will of Bluetspur, Valentine was given a second chance at life, though no miracle comes without consequence. Now she wanders the domains of dread with her companion Tatyana, in search of purpose and power.

Valentine is a Support and Gold Find Champion who takes hold of any incoming positional formation abilities, and uses her telepathic powers to broadcast and boost them, making those abilities more deadly! When you want to add her to your formation, you can swap her with Calliope in slot 5.

For more information on Valentine and all of her mental powers, check out her Champion Spotlight!

Year Five Variants

• Tregrum's Day Out - Search for the absent Open Lord of Waterdeep with Tregrum, a perfectly normal black cat. Champions might be a bit distracted by this absolutely normal cat.
  • Complete Area 75.

• Stunning Teamwork - Valentine joins the search for the missing Open Lord of Waterdeep, helping keep monsters stunned so the Champions can push forward!
  
  • Monsters take 99% less damage when they are not stunned, but stun effects last twice as long.
  • Complete Area 125.

• Positional Play Valentine insists on being the center of attention while the search for the absent Open of Lord Waterdeep continues!
  
  • Non-positional formation abilities, other than Valentine's abilities, are disabled.
  • Complete Area 175.

See in-game for more information!

It's the day before Shieldmeet and the Open Lord of Waterdeep has gone missing. Nobody has seen Laeral Silverhand in days and it is imperative that she be found before the meeting with the Masked Lords begins.

At the behest of the Blackstaff, the Champions are sent to discover what happened...

Midsummer 4 introduces Ellywick Tumblestrum, Gnome Bard, legendary Planeswalker, and the Greatest Bard in the Multiverse, and brings back, Beadle & Grimm, the purveyors of the Pandemonium Warehouse and owners of the Giant's Bane Tavern, and the speedy hero of Baldur's Gate, Shandie Freefoot. Players have until Monday, August 2nd at 12PM PDT to complete their event unlocks and objectives.

For more information about Year 4 Events and how they work, please check out our Year 4 Events Dev Blog.

I. New Champion: Ellywick Tumblestrum

Thanks to a lucky draw from the notorious Deck of Many Things, Ellywick Tumblestrum is now the Greatest Bard in the Multiverse! Her magnificent music has dazzled beings across many planes, including royalty from the Feywild. The Summer Queen and the Queen of Air and Darkness were so moved by her performance that they gifted the bard her exquisite instrument, the beautiful lute Morningmist. She tells tales of her amazing adventures at the Witchlight Carnival, aided by her frog companion Groak.

Ellywick is a Support, Gold Find, and Healing Champion who uses the Deck of Many Things to augment her abilities. When you want to add her to your formation you can swap her with Tyril (Slot 10).

II. Ellywick's Stats

Race: Gnome	Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Class: Bard	Gender: Female
Age: 125

STR: 12	DEX: 17	CON: 14
INT: 13	WIS: 12	CHA: 20

Role: Support, Gold Find, Healing
Eligible for Patrons: Vajra, Strahd, Zariel
Slot: 10 (Tyril)

III. Ellywick's Design

Ellywick Tumblestrum is not only a featured Planeswalker in the latest Magic: The Gathering release: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, she is also a character you may encounter in the upcoming D&D TRPG Adventure: The Wild Beyond The Witchlight. We are so excited to continue the fun that Magic started with Ellywick's debut, and get everyone up to speed on her before you run into her on your next D&D campaign!

When we started to design Ellywick, we had the benefit of learning her backstory from The Wild Beyond Witchlight, but also what her Planeswalker Card would bring to the table. It allowed us to take inspiration from both brands' representations of Ellywick to create our own!

Ellywick is a Support, Gold Find, and Healing Champion who you'll find in Slot 10 (Tyril). Ellywick Tumblestrum is a Gnome Bard, legendary Planeswalker, and the Greatest Bard in the Multiverse. She won that title of 'Greatest Bard in the Multiverse' from a lucky pull from the Deck of Many Things, and her interaction with that iconic Dungeons & Dragons magic item is integral to her Idle Champions design.

Her Specializations allow you to increase the power of one of her abilities and increase the chance of drawing more beneficial cards, while her Ultimate Call Of The Feywild takes direct inspiration from her Planeswalker card, bringing 6 fey creatures forth to heal her allies and harm her enemies.

For more information on Ellywick and her abilities, check out her Champion Spotlight!

Year Four Variants

• Pixie Trickery - One slot is taken up in the formation by a Pixie riding an intellect devourer, who is along to watch Ellywick do her thing.Each time a boss arrives on screen, all Champions are stunned for 5 seconds. If Ellywick is in the formation, the stun does not take effect.
  Reach Area 75.


• Fey Harmonies — Ellywick starts in your formation. She can be moved. Every area, two Satyrs arrive to harmonize. While any Satyrs are on screen, all enemies can only be damaged by bards. Only Champions with CHA 14 or higher can be used.
  Reach Area 125.


• Draconic Dissonance — Every area five chromatic Dragon Wyrmlings spawn with the second wave. Each type of Dragon buffs the Dragons on screen in a unique way:
  • White - When a Dragon attacks, it heals 20% of its health.
  • Blue - Increase the normal attack cooldown of Champions by .5 seconds.
  • Black - When a non-boss Dragon dies, there's a 25% chance that it immediately respawns.
  • Red - Dragons move 100% faster.
  • Green - Dragons deal 100% additional damage.

If Ellywick is in the formation, one fewer Wyrmling spawns in each area.
Reach Area 175.

See the in-game FAQ for more information!

We have some amazing news to share today. We have a preview card from the upcoming Magic: The Gathering card set, titled: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. Check out the reveal below!

Magic the Gathering: Ellywick Tumblestrum

We're so excited to share Ellywick Tumblestrum's card for Adventures in the Forgotten Realms! We're almost as excited as her companion Groak the Toad!

Ellywick Tumblestrum is a Mythic Green Planeswalker who costs 2GG for 4 loyalty.

• Her +1 ability allows you to Venture into the dungeon. (more on that below)
• Her -2 ability allows you to look at the top 6 cards from your library and put a creature card from among them into your hand. If it's legendary, you also gain 3 life.
• Her -7 ability grants an emblem that gives all creatures you control trample, haste, and +2/+2 for each differently named dungeon you've completed.

What does Venture mean, and how do dungeons play into the new card set?

Venture is a new keyword for the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Set, which allows you to venture through one of the many storied dungeons from Dungeons & Dragons. When you venture into a dungeon, you bring a dungeon of your choice into the command zone and put a venture marker on the first room. Each time you enter a room, its room ability triggers. Now that you're in the dungeon, the next time you venture into the dungeon, you move your marker to the next room, triggering its ability. When you trigger the last room's ability, you complete the dungeon! Huzzah!

For more information, check out the official blog post covering the set mechanics for Dungeons & Dragons Adventures in the Forgotten Realms here.

Idle Champion: Ellywick Tumblestrum

To celebrate the reveal of her Magic: The Gathering card, we're also announcing that Ellywick Tumblestrum will be joining the Idle Champions roster during our Midsummer 4 Event on July 21st!

Ellywick is a Support, Gold Find, and Healing Champion who you'll find in slot 10 (Tyril). Ellywick is the greatest bard in the multiverse thanks to a lucky draw from the Deck of Many Things, and that deck certainly influenced her design. We are excited to share more about this amazing new Champion with the release of her Idle Champion Spotlight on July 16th.

Ellywick Tumblestrum, Gnome Bard, Planeswalker, and now Idle Champion of the Forgotten Realms! To celebrate the announcement of Ellywick, you can use the code ELLY-WICK-CARD in Idle Champions to unlock 5 Gold Chests right now!