Honkai Star Rail 4.3 Jade Audit: Stacking 93 Pulls Before Mortenax Blade Times Out

Honkai Star Rail 4.3 Jade Audit: Stacking 93 Pulls Before Mortenax Blade Times Out

Fate part two is finally locked in, and it brings a free 5-star claim on top of two limited collab banners. Anyone trying to hit Himeko Nova, Rin Tohsaka, and Gilgamesh in the same window needs every jade Version 4.3 will hand out. Here is the full ledger, banner by banner, event by event, plus the pull math that decides whether you walk into the 4.4 collab with leverage or with your pity tracker bleeding out.

Fate Part Two and the 4.4 Banner Stack

The Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] collaboration is returning for its second wave, and the headline is that Gilgamesh joins as a 5-star Lightning Destruction unit — the first character ever to occupy that exact path-element combo in Star Rail. He is being positioned as a primary DPS, and several leak notes flag possible HP-consumption mechanics tied to his kit. The collab is structured as a long-term banner similar to the previous Saber and Archer wave, and crucially, there is a free 5-star selector: you can grab one copy of Gilgamesh or Archer, your choice, with the selector remaining claimable until the end of Version 4.6 around mid-October.

Rin Tohsaka is the other half of the Fate Phase, confirmed as a 5-star limited Erudition Quantum character. Unlike Gilgamesh, she is banner-only — no selector path — so if you want her, you actually have to roll. The third banner in the 4.4 stack is Himeko Nova, the Himeko SP rerun, sitting on Erudition Fire. Himeko opens on July 15 (NA, with EU servers a day later) and runs through August 5. Gilgamesh and Rin both go live on July 24. That overlap matters: if you whaled into Himeko earlier in the month, you are pulling against a depleted pity bar when the Fate banners drop.

So three 5-stars across roughly three weeks, one of them effectively free. The trap is obvious. You either commit to a single target and bank everything else for 4.5 and 4.6, or you spread thin and end up with no constellations and a half-built lightcone shelf. The free Gilgamesh selector takes some pressure off — you can lock him in without spending a pass, then dedicate your stockpile to Rin or Himeko depending on team needs.

For anyone weighing Archer versus Gilgamesh on the selector, the calculus tilts on what your roster is missing. Archer is the Fate Phase One survivor; Gilgamesh is brand new tech and the only Lightning Destruction option in the game. If you skipped Phase One entirely, Archer might fill the bigger gap. If you already have a Lightning support core sitting unused, the new DPS slot is the easier sell.

Version 4.3 Phase One: Mortenax Blade Headlines a Brutal Month

Phase One opens June 1. The first thing every player should do is open the mail for 600 stellar jades, then claim the Tour of Stars (Pilgrim Star Gift) pack for 10 gold tickets straight to the inventory. Embers Exchange also resets on day one — five gold tickets and five silver tickets sitting on the shelf, so grab those before the shop ticks over again next month.

The Phase One banner is Mortenax Blade, the SP Blade variant on Fire Nihility. His ultimate, Fornax Ex Corpore, drops a Bounded Field that increases damage taken by enemies inside it, and he enters an enhanced state with a new Sword Formation skill plus a stronger ultimate. The kit has a charge mechanic where ally attacks accumulate charge that triggers automatic extra skills and energy generation, so he plays as a team-anchored hyper-carry rather than a solo damage dealer. Anyone who lands him also unlocks a free outfit, Karmic Fire of the Distant Shore, through the Gift of Tempered Blade event.

The co-running banner in Phase One is Yao Guang, the Arbiter-General of Xianzhou Yuque, sitting as a 5-star Physical Elation unit and the first representative of the Path of Elation. Trying both characters through the in-game trial system pays out 40 stellar jades — small money, but you take every drip in a tight version. The open-world content for 4.3 is projected at the standard 2,000-jade payout, in line with what every version has shipped since launch.

The Shuhu, Asat Pramad, and the Painting World

The narrative beats in 4.3 are arguably more dangerous than the banner schedule. Blade absorbed the tainted Shuhu flesh from more than 200,000 infected Research Society members after Silver Wolf compressed and resealed the Emanator of Abundance inside his body. That makes Blade the sole vessel, the Supplicant, and the carrier of a piece of the immortal tree Emanator that has been sitting in the lore since Version 1.0 — the same artifact responsible for the original High-Cloud Quintet tragedy.

Yao Guang's plan in 4.3 is to eradicate the Shuhu permanently by leveraging the sealed Aeon of Voracity (the Oroboros remains) inside Planarcadia. The wrinkle is that the Shuhu is sealed inside Blade, so melting the Shuhu means melting Blade. He is chasing Voracity's power to burn the affliction out and end the mara curse, and the outcome — death or rebirth — is reportedly blank in Elio's script. That is a rare admission. The version closes with a directive to locate the legendary paintress Graphia, who is slumbering inside the scroll-world of the Painting World, and inform her that Lord Ravager Asat Pramad has returned.

For anyone tracking the meta-plot, this is the second time the cast has had to face down Asat Pramad, and the war with the Ravager looms over everything after 4.3. Blade is the load-bearing piece, and the script openly hedges on whether he survives. That alone is reason to spend the trial jade on him whether you pull or not.

End-Game Mode Resets and What Actually Works

Three combat modes reset across the version, each one good for 900 jades on a clear. June 8 brings the Apocalyptic Shadow reset, June 22 the Pure Fiction reset, and July 6 the Memory of Chaos reset. That is 2,700 jades from end-game alone if you can clear all three.

Cocolia, Mother of Deception, shows up across multiple modes this rotation, which is convenient — she sits at the end of Everwinter Hill on Jarilo-VI in the Echo of War rotation as well, and her weakness profile (Fire, Thunder, Quantum) is broad enough that almost any built roster can break her. Lygus, the mission-exclusive Amphoreus boss, is also flagged in the rotation as featured content.

The new 4.3 boss debuts in the lower half of Memory of Chaos on July 6, which means you have effectively no time to learn the fight before clear week. If you are sitting on Mortenax Blade plus a Fire-Nihility-leaning team, the rotation is built for you — but anyone running an older roster will need to lean on broad-coverage units like Hyacine, the Wind Remembrance healer who restores team HP, increases max HP, and summons Little Ica for automatic healing and damage that scales with healing performed.

Cyrene also sees use here. Her real name is partially recorded as Ai Li, she carries the pen name Cyrene, and her path is The Remembrance with The Trailblaze as her simulated path on Ice. The aliases stack absurdly high — Demiurge, Mem, Flawless True Self, Heart of Amphoreus, Daughter of Elysian Retreat, First Sapient Seed, Pink Memory Sprite, Emissary of Memory — but mechanically she has been a top-tier sub-DPS since her November 5, 2025 release.

Side Events: Spirit Park, Pixel Planes, and the Trial Drip

Two named side events anchor the version. Pixel Plane Rumble lands in Phase One — a roguelite where you arm a pixel plane with rotating weapon loadouts and grind toward a final encounter. The payout is 1,200 stellar jades plus a new dialogue frame for your profile. Roguelite fatigue is real at this point, but 1,200 jades is roughly six pulls and the dialogue frame is the kind of cosmetic completionists will not skip.

Phase Two opens June 24 with the Spirit Amusement Park sandbox mini-game. You build out an amusement park for spirits, design movement paths through the sandbox, place facilities, and the more spirits you attract, the higher the reward tier. Total payout sits at 500 jades. It is the smaller of the two events, but the design-your-park gameplay is markedly more relaxed than the bullet-hell pixel plane, and it pairs with the 4.3 Phase Two banner trials nicely — 40 jades for trying out Cyrene and Evernight back to back.

The 4.4 pre-livestream lands July 3 with three redemption codes worth 100 jades each, for the standard 300-jade payout. Mark the date because livestream codes expire fast — the 4.3 livestream codes, for reference, were CA395VK8ULCP (100 jades plus 50,000), YT295D38DLEB (100 jades plus 5 Traveler's Guide), and EB395CJ8V5XF (100 jades plus 4 Refined Aether), all of which dropped dead at 10:59 AM UTC-5 on May 23, 2026.

There is also the check-in for 120 jades a month and the standard 60 jades per day from Daily Training (1,800 over a month) plus 225 jades per week from Weekly Missions. Across 4.3's full run that aggregates to 2,640 daily jades and 1,575 weekly jades. Nothing flashy, but it is the floor everything else builds on.

Embers Exchange and the Gold Ticket Math

Embers Exchange is the most under-discussed pull source in the game. Each monthly reset, the shop puts 5 Star Rail Special Passes (priority pick) and 2 Wishful Resins on the shelf for 1,600 Relic Remains, alongside Star Rail Passes and trace/upgrade materials. Across 4.3, the shop resets on June 1 (Phase One opener) and July 1, giving you ten priority passes total in addition to the ten gold tickets from the Tour of Stars mail.

The conservative ticket count for 4.3 lands at 20 gold tickets — 10 from Tour of Stars and 5 each from the two Embers Exchange resets. Subtitles flag that this is a conservative estimate and the real number is likely higher once you factor in event-rewarded tickets that have not yet been announced.

The allocation plan that gets thrown around in community threads: one ticket toward Cyrene's rerun in Phase Two, one toward Evernight, and the remaining three banked for the 4.4 banner stack. Spread across Himeko Nova, Rin Tohsaka, and Gilgamesh, that is exactly one ticket per banner — minimal commitment per character but enough to nudge soft pity if you are already close.

Embers Exchange also dropped 10 free Special Passes historically — a one-time June 2023 distribution with a June 7, 2023 claim deadline, plus the old 2T7BP4JVEBT7 code for 2 Condensed Aethers, 3 Adventure Logs, 3 Cosmic Fried Rices, and 5,000, which expired May 7, 2023. Both are long gone, mentioned only because they show how aggressively the shop has been seeded over the years. Treat the monthly priority pass pickup as non-negotiable.

The Full Jade Tally and 93-Pull Math

The full 4.3 jade ledger lands at 11,595 stellar jades plus 20 gold tickets when you stack every income source on top of the daily and weekly floor. The breakdown:

Convert that to pulls and you get 65 from Phase One and 28 from Phase Two, for a combined 93 free pulls before you spend a single dollar.

Add the small monthly pass and you push to 117 pulls. Add both monthly passes and you crest 125 pulls — enough to soft-pity a single banner and still have change left over. That math is precisely what determines whether the Himeko-Rin-Gilgamesh trio is realistic. With 125 pulls and a free Gilgamesh selector, you can ostensibly afford to pity one banner and rely on 50/50 luck or guarantee carryover for the other. With 93 pulls and no monthly pass, you are picking exactly one of the three and praying the lightcone banner can wait.

The cleanest target priority, given the selector: claim Gilgamesh for free, save jades for Rin Tohsaka if you want the new Erudition Quantum kit, and treat Himeko Nova as a luxury rerun rather than a must-pull. Anyone who already owns the original Himeko has even less incentive to chase the SP variant unless you specifically need a second Erudition Fire option. The exception is if Mortenax Blade is your priority — in that case Phase One eats most of your bankroll and the 4.4 trio becomes a flex pick based on whatever pulls survive.