Rum Build Guide: Melee Casting in The Magus Circle

Who is Rum?

Rum is one of The Magus Circle’s six playable mages, and launch week caught her name in the most involuntary way possible: a player trying to escape a run found the game reading their extraction sigil as “Rum’s attack spell” — repeatedly. That one bug report confirms two things at once. First, Rum exists and fights up close, with a signature shape aggressive enough to resemble the game’s exit portal drawing. Second, her kit has a distinct visual identity, because the recognizer can confuse the two.

Her exact passive, ability, and starting spell name are still pending in-game verification — this page grows as they are captured, the same way official hotfix notes have already exposed other mages’ kits (Coffee’s potion tutorial, Anchan’s softlocking ability).

RANDOM GAMES DAY — THE MAGUS CIRCLE launch stream — ADRIAN — YouTube

RANDOM GAMES DAY — THE MAGUS CIRCLE launch stream — ADRIAN

How should a first Rum run go?

Until her numbers are verified, structure her first run around what the melee-adjacent label implies:

1. Expect to be closer to the Tide than you want. Short-range kits live and die by positioning — the drawing guide covers casting while kiting, which is the survival skill that matters most here.
2. Feed one spell your early upgrades. Level-up cards scale a single spell hard; a focused path buys you the damage to stay out of arm’s reach later.
3. Respect the extraction window. If the game can misread Rum’s own spell as the exit, the reverse is also a risk — when the Leviathan falls, draw the extraction shape slowly and large, away from stragglers. The Leviathan guide has the full extraction sequence.
4. Turn on the comfort settings. Time-slow while drawing gives melee kits the most value, because your drawing windows are the most interrupted.

What do we actually know about her kit?

Only what public sources support, which today is:

Everything else — passive, ability cooldown, skill tree, whether she heals — lands here when it can be verified in-game. The all-mages roster keeps the running comparison table, and the beginner guide covers the run loop her kit lives inside.

Why write a Rum page this early?

Because the search intent already exists: players are choosing between the mages the game hands them first, and two of those picks (Milk and Rum) are the ones launch-week players talk about most. A page that says “here is everything verified, here is what is still open, come back when the numbers land” beats a page of invented stats — the same discipline the spell list applies, and for the same reason: one fabricated number costs more trust than ten honest TODOs.

Sources: Steam store page, and launch-week reports from the Steam community forums. Screenshots © By Witchlight.