Carnival Hunt Magician

When charge stuns you

Failed teleports or actions without enough charge trigger a brief stun and put Invisibility / Teleport on a long cooldown. After a stun, a sliver of charge returns so you can hunt for floor keys or dead-bunny loot.

Key stashes and Ticketman

Keys live in your magical pocket. Spend them to self-wind or power Ticketman — a companion that paints red zones; bunnies crossing notify you and reveal aura for extended tracking. Place Ticketmen on likely rotate paths between objectives.

Hat Trick — your primary catch tool

Hat Trick pulls alive bunnies, corpse props, and your own Imposters from distance. Wind-up is slow — lead targets around corners and objective machines. When the hand passes through the hat it stays searching; routing a bunny through the lingering grab box catches without a direct chase.

Playing Cards — deck management

Activating the card ability offers two random cards from the deck. Hold up to three in bottom slots (press 1/2/3 for actives). Some cards are passive until expiry; others need manual activation. Skip unwanted cards to save slots — skipping still fires cooldown.

Insert cards into caught bunnies if they have free red inventory slots and no card already. Full pockets mean you must throw or tear instead.

Invisibility and Teleport — shared cooldown tax

Invisibility hides you from bunny vision while draining charge continuously. They still hear footsteps — crouch discipline matters. While invisible, Teleport sends you to any carnival booth on the map for a heavy charge price. Fail the cost check and you stun with a brutal cooldown.

Without invisibility ready, enter the nearest booth to teleport elsewhere for free — use this to chase floor changes when bunnies ride ferris wheels or roller coasters.

Imposters — area denial

Deploy Imposters where bunnies will objective or rotate. You receive alerts when one engages; hurry because bunnies can win the struggle and escape. Imposters also bait play dead clusters — force inspections to burn bunny time.

Catch → loot → throw loop

Optimal often: grab, loot key from back pockets, throw for gear damage. Caging wastes time if bunnies coordinate frees. Tear bunnies with zero Life Gears. If they escape your grasp, you briefly stun — have charge buffered before committing.

Destroy bunny shortcuts

Trampolines and dropped unicycles enable fast rotates. Destroy them while patrolling. Close opened gates when safe — bunnies can reopen, but the reset buys charge recovery time.

Map landmarks

Prioritize doors, high striker, cannon, roller coaster, and ferris wheel — tutorial routes prove bunnies cluster there. Use booth teleports to jump floors when you hear upstairs objective audio without climbing stairs.

Play dead mind games

Fake corpses near real ones. The Magician inspection forces a scream — coordinate so one bunny baits while others finish gates. After a throw, panic speed beats re-grab if you hit a rabbit hole — do not hero wind in open ground while panicked.

Key and wind-up discipline

Never stack three bunnies on one key use. Spread wind-up so a single Hat Trick does not stall the floor. Keep one firework or smoke carrot for Magician commits — see tier list for meta gear.