# Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms Idle Champions - Mastery Variants: August 2026 - Product: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/idle-champions-of-the-forgotten-realms) - Vendor: Codename Entertainment Inc. - Date: 2026-08-26 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/627690/view/687514622514693521 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/idle-champions-of-the-forgotten-realms/releases/2026-08-26-idle-champions-mastery-variants-august-2026 What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Mastery Variants for the second adventures in each of the first 8 campaigns - **added** — Mastery Variant for A Grand Tour of the Sword Coast: The Cursed Farmer featuring a chicken and mad cow with formation restrictions - **added** — Mastery Variant for Tomb of Annihilation: Seeking Allies featuring three Red Wizards with champion type restrictions - **added** — Mastery Variant for Waterdeep: Dragon Heist: Building Trust with unique WIS score restrictions and an INT requirement - **added** — Mastery Variant for Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus: The Dead Three allowing only Champions from specific affiliations with a 500-area removal mechanic - **added** — Mastery Variant for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden: The Everlasting Rime featuring Wulfgar and illusory enemies only damageable by Champions adjacent to Chadwick - **added** — Mastery Variant for The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: The Witchlight Carnival requiring at least 17 familiars and imposing DEX score adjacency restrictions - **added** — Mastery Variant for Light of Xaryxis: The Evacuation of Waterdeep featuring Squiddly with a rocket that damages Champions behind him with blast damage _As we prepare for our 9th Anniversary next week, we're back with the latest wave of Mastery Variants for August 2026!_ Today's batch of Mastery Variants is connected to the second adventures in each of the first 8 campaigns (all campaigns except for Vecna & Tales). As a reminder from last month's [Introducing Mastery Variants Blog](https://codenameentertainment.com/?page=blog&post_id=1950#blog), in order to see the Mastery Variants, you need to: - Have all 10 campaigns unlocked. - Have completed all three variants of the base adventure Read on to learn more about this month's exciting Mastery Variants, our latest Legendary Feat, and the countdown to our 9th Anniversary on September 2nd! ##### August 2026 Mastery Variants ##### A Grand Tour of the Sword Coast: The Cursed Farmer ##### Variant: Mastery - This Formation is Cursed Investigate the cursed farm you passed earlier with every curse imaginable. - A chicken takes up a slot in the formation. Champions adjacent to the Chicken must have at least one ability score that is 18 or higher. - A mad cow takes up a slot in the formation. Champions adjacent to the Cow must have a base attack speed higher than 5 seconds. - All slots in the formation are cursed, except for one. Champions placed in cursed slots cannot attack with their base attacks or use their ultimate abilities. - Complete Area 1,450 ##### Tomb of Annihilation: Seeking Allies ##### Variant: Mastery - Thay It Ain't So Attempt to get on the good side of some red-robed academic wizards. - Three Red Wizards join the formation. An Abjurer at the front, an Illusionist in the top left corner, and a Transmuter in the bottom left corner. - Champions placed between the Abjurer and another Red Wizard must be either dwarves or Small Champions (Small Champions are fairy, gnome, goblin, halfling, kender, kobold, and plasmoid Champions.) - Champions placed between the Illusionist and another Red Wizard must have a magic base attack. - Champions placed between the Transmuter and another Red Wizard must have a total ability score of 78 or lower. - These restrictions persist even if any or all of the Red Wizards are defeated. - Complete Area 1,550 ##### Waterdeep: Dragon Heist: Building Trust ##### Variant: Mastery - Wizened Waterdeep Walkabout Is it wise to escort a mysterious noble through a dangerous night out in Waterdeep? - No two Champions in the formation can share the same WIS score. If they do, the damage of all Champions is set to 0. - Only Champions with an INT score of 12 or higher may be used. - A fancy red panda in a top hat riding a unicycle (don't ask) takes up a slot in the formation. You must have at least one core or evergreen Champion adjacent to the red panda, or else the damage of all Champions is set to 0. - Complete Area 1,650 ##### Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus: The Dead Three ##### Variant: Mastery - Absolute Entourage Patrol the streets of Baldur's Gate with some heroes from Baldur's Gate. - You may only use Champions from the Heroes of Baldur's Gate or Absolute Adversary affiliations. - Minsc starts in the formation. - Once a Champion is added to the formation they may not be removed or swapped out. - After a Champion has been in the formation for 500 areas, they are removed and can not be used for the rest of the adventure. Minsc is immune to this effect. - Complete Area 1,750 ##### Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden: The Everlasting Rime ##### Variant: Mastery - Hallucinations of Mithral Hall Continue to Ten-Towns with the Companions of the Hall while trying not to get distracted. - Wulfgar must be unlocked to start this variant. - Wulfgar starts in the formation and can not be removed or swapped out. - Only Champions from the Companions of the Hall affiliation can deal damage. - Chadwick joined the formation. He's still experimenting with some spell scrolls, so Champions adjacent to Chadwick deal 0 damage to normal enemies and bosses. - Three random Illusory Enemies fro _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/627690/view/687514622514693521]_