Mutalith Vortex Beast
SWORD: what Mutalith Vortex Beast kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 170 pts kill ~100 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against light vehicles and monsters, weakest against line infantry
Into each enemy type
SHIELD: how hard Mutalith Vortex Beast is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 170 pts take ~858 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Tough all-rounder that also kills tanks 2 of 5
- Boosts ritual casting nearby 2 of 5
- Its aura hurts nearby enemies 2 of 5
- Holds the middle 1 of 5
- Swingy from game to game 1 of 5
- Output close to a Defiler for the cost 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mutalith Vortex Beast170 pts | A | Top 43% | Top 3% | 24of 89 |
| Daemon Prince of Tzeentch170 pts | C | Top 34% | Top 41% | 7of 89 |
| Daemon Prince of Tzeentch with wings170 pts | B | Top 29% | Bottom 44% | 40of 89 |
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Mutalith Vortex Beast, 170 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Warpmeld Pact. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: 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.
170 pts → kills ~100 pts → 59 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.
~858 pts → 505 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 571 melee 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.