Witch Spells

Witch Spells

Witch Spells

This section presents the Witch spell list. The spells are organized by spell level and then alphabetized, and each spell’s school of magic is listed. New spells are marked with an asterisk (*). In the Special column, C means the spell requires Concentration, R means it’s a Ritual, and M means it requires a specific Material component.

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Spell Descriptions

Level 1 Witch Spells

Spell	School	Special
Accursed Act*	Enchantment	C
Animal Friendship	Enchantment	—
Bane	Abjuration	C
Charm Person	Enchantment	C
Color Spray	Illusion	—
Comprehend Languages	Divination	R
Detect Magic	Enchantment	C, R
Disguise Self	Illusion	—
Expeditious Retreat	Transmutation	C
Faerie Fire	Abjuration	C
Flawed Reconstruction*	Transmutation	—
Hex	Illusion	C
Hideous Laughter	Enchantment	C
Hollowing Curse*	Necromancy	C
Protection from Evil and Good	Abjuration	C, M
Psychedelics*	Illusion	—
Ray of Sickness	Necromancy	—
Silent Image	Illusion	C
Sleep	Enchantment	C
Thunderwave	Evocation	—
Unseen Servant	Conjuration	R

Level 2 Witch Spells

Spell	School	Special
Animal Messenger	Enchantment	R
Blindness/Deafness	Transmutation	—
Calm Emotion	Enchantment	C
Curse Ward*	Abjuration	—
Darkness	Evocation	C
Darkvision	Transmutation	—
Detect Thoughts	Divination	C
Enlarge/Reduce	Transmutation	C
Enthrall	Enchantment	—
Hold Person	Enchantment	C
Intrusive Thought*	Enchantment	—
Invisibility	Illusion	C
Knock	Transmutation	—
Levitate	Transmutation	C
Locate Object	Illusion	C
Misty Step	Conjuration	—
Protect Threshold*	Abjuration	R
Ray of Enfeeblement	Necromancy	C
See Invisibility	Divination	—
Shatter	Evocation	C
Spider Climb	Transmutation	C
Suggestion	Enchantment	C

Level 3 Witch Spells

Spell	School	Special
Bestow Curse	Necromancy	C
Clairvoyance	Divination	C, M
Counterspell	Abjuration	—
Curse of Blades*	Enchantment	C
Dispel Magic	Abjuration	—
Fear	Illusion	C
Fly	Transmutation	C
Hypnotic Pattern	Illusion	C
Magic Circle	Abjuration	M
Major Image	Illusion	C
Nondetection	Abjuration	M
Remove Curse	Abjuration	—
Ruby-Eye Curse*	Necromancy	C
Sending	Divination	—
Slow	Transmutation	C
Speak with Dead	Necromancy	—
Speak with Plants	Transmutation	—
Stinking Cloud	Transmutation	C
Tongues	Conjuration	—

Level 4 Witch Spells

Spell	School	Special
Arcane Eye	Divination	C
Banishment	Abjuration	C
Black Tentacles	Conjuration	C
Compulsion	Enchantment	C
Confusion	Enchantment	C
Dimension Door	Conjuration	—
Dominate Beast	Enchantment	C
Gahoul’s Scapegoat*	Abjuration	—
Greater Invisibility	Illusion	C
Hallucinatory Terrain	Illusion	—
Locate Creature	Divination	C
Mandy’s Marvelous Dress*	Conjuration	M
Phantasmal Killer	Illusion	C
Polymorph	Transmutation	C

Level 5 Witch Spells

Spell	School	Special
Contagion	Necromancy	—
Dispel Evil and Good	Abjuration	C
Dominate Person	Enchantment	C
Dream	Illusion	—
Geas	Enchantment	—
Hold Monster	Enchantment	C
Insect Plague	Conjuration	C
Mislead	Illusion	C
Modify Memory	Enchantment	C
Pharaoh’s Curse*	Necromancy	—
Planar Binding	Abjuration	M
Scrying	Divination	C, M
Seeming	Illusion	—
Telekinesis	Transmutation	C

Level 6 Witch Spells

Spell	School	Special
Elemental Curse*	Evocation	C
Eyebite	Necromancy	C
Flesh to Stone	Transmutation	C
Frenzy*	Enchantment	C
Mass Suggestion	Enchantment	—
Programmed Illusion	Illusion	M
True Seeing	Divination	M

Level 7 Witch Spells

Spell	School	Special
Etherealness	Conjuration	—
Mirage Arcane	Illusion	—
Plane Shift	Conjuration	M
Project Image	Illusion	C, M
Sequester	Transmutation	M
Symbol	Abjuration	M
Teleport	Conjuration	—

Level 8 Witch Spells

Spell	School	Special
Antipathy/Sympathy	Enchantment	—
Befuddlement	Enchantment	—
Dominate Monster	Enchantment	C
Glibness	Transmutation	—
Mind Blank	Abjuration	—
Power Word Stun	Enchantment	—

Level 9 Witch Spells

Spell	School	Special
Astral Projection	Necromancy	M
Foresight	Divination	—
Identity Curse*	Enchantment	—
Imprisonment	Abjuration	M
True Polymorph	Transmutation	C
Weird	Illusion	C

 

Spell Descriptions

The following spells are represented in alphabetical order.

Accursed Act

Level 1 Enchantment (Witch)

Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (incense or a black candle)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Lighting a candle, you attempt to curse a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be cursed for the duration. Until the spell ends, the creature takes Psychic damage equal to 1d8 + your spellcasting ability modifier whenever it attacks or casts a spell. The target only takes this damage once per turn. The spell ends early if the target doesn’t attack or cast a spell on its turn.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 1.

Curse of Blades

Level 3 Enchantment (Bard, Necromancer, Warlock, Witch, Wizard)

Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Unholy bands of black energy tie a creature you can see within range to its weapon. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become cursed for the duration. The target can’t willingly drop or stow a Melee weapon it is holding. Additionally, whenever the target makes an attack on its turn, it makes an additional melee attack against itself, targeting its own AC and dealing damage as normal on a hit. If the target has multiple ways to make a melee attack, you choose which attack it uses.

Curse Ward

Level 2 Abjuration (Cleric, Investigator, Martyr, Paladin, Warlock, Witch, Wizard)

Casting Time: Action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 hour

You reach out your hand and touch a willing creature, raising a smoke-like barrier around it. For the duration, the target has Resistance to Necrotic damage and can’t be cursed or possessed. Additionally, its Hit Point maximum can’t be reduced. If the target is already under one of these effects, the effect is suppressed until the spell ends.

Elemental Curse

Level 6 Evocation (Witch)

Casting Time: Action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

A spark leaps from your finger to a creature you touch, spreading in bright cracks across its skin. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be cursed for the duration. The target has Vulnerability to your choice of Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Thunder damage. If the creature has  Resistance to the chosen damage type, it instead only loses that Resistance. If the target has Immunity to the chosen damage type, it is treated as having only Resistance to that damage.

Flawed Reconstruction

Level 1 Transmutation (Necromancer, Warlock, Witch, Wizard)

Casting Time: Action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a needle and thread)
Duration: Instantaneous

You stitch together the wounds of a creature you touch, which regains 3d6 Hit Points. However, the mending is imperfect, and the target’s Hit Point maximum is reduced by 1d6, to a minimum of 1.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The healing increases by 2d6 and the reduction increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 1.

Frenzy

Level 6 Enchantment (Bard, Necromancer, Witch, Wizard)

Casting Time: Action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (a drop of fresh blood)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

With a gesture, you reduce a crowd to base instinct and violence. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point you choose within range makes a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature has the Frenzied condition for the duration.

A creature with the Frenzied condition loses the ability to distinguish between friend and foe, regarding all creatures it can see as enemies. While Frenzied, the creature chooses the targets for its attacks, spells, and abilities randomly from among the creatures it can see within range, and it must make an Opportunity Attack if any creature provokes one.

The Frenzied condition ends after 1 minute, or when the spell ends. At the end of its turn, an affected creature can repeat its saving throw, ending the effect on itself early on a success.

Gahoul’s Scapegoat

Level 4 Abjuration (Necromancer, Witch)

Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (black chalk, paint, or oil)
Duration: 8 hours

You trace a complex arcane symbol on the flesh of a willing creature you touch, marking it for sacrifice. When you are hit by an attack roll during the spell’s duration and the marked creature is within 60 feet of yourself, you can take a Reaction to teleport, swapping places with the creature and forcing it to be hit by the attack instead of you. The spell then ends.

Hollowing Curse

Level 1 Necromancy (Necromancer, Sorcerer, Warlock, Witch, Wizard)

Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Tendrils of black mist extend from your fingertips, draining a target’s vitality. Choose a creature you can see within range to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 2d6 Necrotic damage and is cursed for the duration. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and isn’t cursed.

On each of your subsequent turns, you can take a Magic action or Bonus Action to deal damage to the
cursed creature. The damage equals 2d6 Necrotic damage if you took the Magic action or half as much if you took a Bonus Action.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 2d6 for each spell slot level above 1.

Identity Curse

Level 9 Enchantment (Witch)

Casting Time: Action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: Until dispelled

You touch a creature’s temple and attempt to erase its identity. One creature you touch makes a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target falls unconscious for 1 hour and becomes cursed for the duration to forget its identity. When the target awakens, it loses all its personal memories, though it retains its general knowledge, proficiencies, and other statistics. The target doesn’t realize it has any class features or magical abilities, and so doesn’t willingly make use of them unless it rediscovers them. If left to its own devices, the target will quickly adopt a new name and begin to build a new identity. When the spell ends, the target regains its past memories.

Intrusive Thought

Level 2 Enchantment (Bard, Sorcerer, Witch, Wizard)

Casting Time: Reaction, which you take when you see a creature within 60 feet of yourself making an attack
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous

You attempt to distort a creature’s thinking. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or automatically miss its attack.

Mandy’s Marvelous Dress

Level 4 Conjuration (Bard, Witch)

Casting Time: Action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a glass slipper worth 100+ GP)
Duration: Concentration, special

A willing creature you touch is instantly clothed in a fabulous ball gown, perfectly tailored and complete with a set of glittering jewelry. You can choose for the dress to sit atop the creature’s clothing or armor, or for it to magically replace its outfit. The creature can’t remove the dress until the spell ends; similarly, the jewelry vanishes if it is removed.

Elegant Flair. Until the spell ends, when the wearer makes a D20 Test using Charisma, it can replace the number it rolls with a 10.

Glamorous Ward. If the wearer of the dress is attacked by a creature that can see it, the attacker must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or miss with the attack. On a success, the attacker is immune to this effect until the spell ends.

Duration. This spell’s duration varies depending upon when and where it was cast. If cast in a location where time passes normally, the spell lasts until the twelfth stroke of the next midnight, however long that may be. Elsewhere, the spell lasts for 24 hours. When the spell ends, the dress vanishes in a puff of sparkles, and the creature becomes clothed in its original outfit.

Pharaoh’s Curse

Level 5 Necromancy (Necromancer, Witch)

Casting Time: Action
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Until dispelled

Opening your palm, you release a puff of dust containing the pestilence of mummy rot. One creature you choose within range makes a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target is cursed with mummy rot for the duration. The target can’t regain Hit Points, and its Hit Point maximum decreases by 3d6 for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target’s Hit Point maximum to 0, the target dies, and its body turns to dust. The spell ends early if the target is cured of mummy rot.

Protect Threshold

Level 2 Abjuration (Investigator, Necromancer, Sorcerer, Witch, Wizard)

Casting Time: Action or Ritual
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (an ounce of salt for each foot of the warded portal’s perimeter)
Duration: 10 minutes

Tracing arcane sigils along its boundary, you can ward a doorway, window, or other portal from entry. For the duration, an invisible eldritch creature stalks the warded portal. Any creature that attempts to pass through the portal makes a Wisdom saving throw or take 4d6 Psychic damage, or half as much on a successful save.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 2.

Psychedelics

Level 1 Illusion (Bard, Druid, Ranger, Witch)

Casting Time: Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a mushroom)
Duration: 1 round

For a moment, the colors in a 20-foot Emanation originating from you around you shift in a rainbow swirl. Each creature you choose within the Emanation has Disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes against you until the spell ends at the end of your next turn.

Additionally, the colors of objects you choose within range change randomly and remain brightly and unnaturally colored for 1 hour.

Ruby-Eye Curse

Level 3 Necromancy (Necromancer, Witch)

Casting Time: Action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

A red haze clouds the eyes of a creature that meets your gaze. One creature you choose within range makes a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is cursed for the duration. The target can see normally out to a range of 5 feet, but has the Blinded condition beyond this radius.

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