Magnus the Red
SWORD: what Magnus the Red kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 455 pts kill ~173 pts in one activation.Typical unit: 48 per 100
Best against heavy vehicles and monsters, weakest against hordes
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
In Thousand Sons
Across the game· units
SHIELD: how hard Magnus the Red is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 455 pts take ~1119 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical unit: 306 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Centrepiece that makes the whole army work 5 of 5
- Very durable, and hits hard in melee and shooting 4 of 5
- Fast, with auras that help the army move 3 of 5
- Psychic shooting ignores cover 2 of 5
- Leaves too few units beside Terminators 1 of 5
- Weaker as your only psyker 1 of 5
- Not essential to a good list 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magnus the Red455 pts | S | Bottom 28% | Bottom 22% | 47of 89 |
| Kairos Fateweaver305 pts | D | Bottom 37% | Bottom 39% | 2of 89 |
| Ahriman105 pts | C | Top 28% | Bottom 12% | 16of 89 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Magnus the Red, 455 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Hexwarp Thrallband (Flow of Magic: Wholly in Flow of Magic). On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: its own abilities, the army rule and the detachment's rule.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
455 pts → kills ~173 pts → 38 per 100SHIELD
Enemy points it takes to kill it, per 100 pts of its own: the points of the cheapest units from top lists that kill it 80% of the time. It's per point, so a costly unit has to be much tougher to score the same.
~1119 pts → 246 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 935 units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 5 reviewers' newest Thousand Sons tier lists: Redundant Rolling (tier list and unit videos to 20 Oct) (20 Oct), Phyllain (meta watch of seven 4-1 lists, dataslate day, July update) (25 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (dataslate review, Detachment Focus, Competitive Innovations: 1 full list and 8 summaries) (30 Oct), Grand Slam Gaming (three of his own 2,000-point lists) (21 Aug), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, much text carried over from 10th) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
89 public Thousand Sons tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer. Organisers and players: ask us and we'll take a list or an event down. Numbers run 4 Nov.