The accretion states of a CLAGN across the magnetic S-curve. The left panel shows the thermally stable and unstable branches for a highly magnetized disk in the λ_Edd–Σ plane. The corresponding cross-sectional figures detail the disk and warm corona evolution. A stable Type 1 with a strong soft X-ray excess (C) destabilizes at the critical knee (B), where a front propagates outward on the timescale t_fp. The transition concludes on the radiatively inefficient lower branch (A), characterized by a vanished warm corona and a dim Type 2 spectrum.