Obviously all the info here can be found on the wiki. But I was bored and felt like making this anyway! Someone out there might like having this on a steam guide, who knows?

For your first run, all you'll be able to change is the stone in the main story slot. The other three slots will be filled in with the common magic stone



This imitates the effect of that stone relating to whatever slot it ends up in. So your first run will be pretty limiting but the more you play the game the more varied your load-out will be.

It's probably a bit too early to be making a guide for this game. Odds are there'll be things I'll need to fix or adjust but I think this will be alright for now.

Scarlet Devil



Creature Red


Snow Blossom


Blue Season


Yellow Subterranean


Imperishable Moon


Beast Hardiness


Shintoism Wind

You don't have to actually 1cc the game to unlock a stone. Apparently all you need to do is get past stage 3 for that (Haven't tested it myself). But either way you can continue, beat the game, get the bad ending and still get something out of it.

Regardless of what main stone you pick, having an Abnormal Attack active prevents the loss of a life. You fail any spell card you were trying to capture, though.

The Creature Red stone as passive pairs particularly well with Shintoism Wind as an active stone with its really short gauge.

Whether a stone is set to wide or narrow, it doesn't change the damage directly. But the formation or range might make the difference. There are some shots where the change is fairly minimal. Like Marisa and the Snow Blossom stone.

The incident enemies were nerfed since the days of the demo; they no longer shoot bullets during boss fights. But they do clear out all on-screen bullets so Beast Hardiness might be decently passively but I'm not sure if it'd better to use that over Scarlet Devil/Snow Blossom for the general damage increase.