This chapter describes the most common spells in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons. The chapter begins with the spell lists of the spellcasting classes. The remainder contains spell descriptions, presented in alphabetical order by the name of the spell.
Bard Spells
Cantrips (0 Level)
Blade Ward Dancing Lights Friends Light Mage Hand Mending Message Minor Illusion Prestidigitation True Strike Vicious Mockery
1st Level
Animal Friendship Bane Charm Person Comprehend Languages Cure Wounds Detect Magic Disguise Self Dissonant Whispers Faerie Fire Feather Fall Healing Word Heroism Identify Illusory Script Longstrider Silent Image Sleep Speak with Animals Tasha’s Hideous Laughter Thunderwave Unseen Servant
2nd Level
Animal Messenger Blindness/Deafness Calm Emotions Cloud of Daggers Crown of Madness Detect Thoughts Enhance Ability Enthrall Heat Metal Hold Person Invisibility Knock Lesser Restoration Locate Animals or Plants Locate Object Magic Mouth Phantasmal Force See Invisibility Shatter Silence Suggestion Zone of Truth
3rd Level
Bestow Curse Clairvoyance Dispel Magic Fear Feign Death Glyph of Warding Hypnotic Pattern Leomund’s Tiny Hut Major Image Nondetection Plant Growth Sending Speak with Dead Speak with Plants Stinking Cloud Tongues
4th Level
Compulsion Confusion Dimension Door Freedom of Movement Greater Invisibility Hallucinatory Terrain Locate Creature Polymorph
5th Level
Animate Objects Awaken Dominate Person Dream Geas Greater Restoration Hold Monster Legend Lore Mass Cure Wounds Mislead Modify Memory Planar Binding Raise Dead Scrying Seeming Teleportation Circle
6th Level
Eyebite Find the Path Guards and Wards Mass Suggestion Otto’s Irresistible Dance Programmed Illusion True Seeing
7th Level
Etherealness Forcecage Mirage Arcane Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion Mordenkainen’s Sword Project Image Regenerate Resurrection Symbol Teleport
8th Level
Dominate Monster Feeblemind Glibness Mind Blank Power Word Stun
9th Level
Foresight Power Word Heal Power Word Kill True Polymorph
Cleric Spells
Cantrips (0 Level)
Guidance Light Mending Resistance Sacred Flame Spare the Dying Thaumaturgy
1st Level
Bane Bless Command Create or Destroy Water Cure Wounds Detect Evil and Good Detect Magic Detect Poison and Disease Guiding Bolt Healing Word Inflict Wounds Protection from Evil and Good Purify Food and Drink Sanctuary Shield of Faith
2nd Level
Aid Augury Blindness/Deafness Calm Emotions Continual Flame Enhance Ability Find Traps Gentle Repose Hold Person Lesser Restoration Locate Object Prayer of Healing Protection from Poison Silence Spiritual Weapon Warding Bond Zone of Truth
3rd Level
Animate Dead Beacon of Hope Bestow Curse Clairvoyance Create Food and Water Daylight Dispel Magic Feign Death Glyph of Warding Magic Circle Mass Healing Word Meld into Stone Protection from Energy Remove Curse Revivify Sending Speak with Dead Spirit Guardians Tongues Water Walk
4th Level
Banishment Control Water Death Ward Divination Freedom of Movement Guardian of Faith Locate Creature Stone Shape
5th Level
Commune Contagion Dispel Evil and Good Flame Strike Geas Greater Restoration Hallow Insect Plague Legend Lore Mass Cure Wounds Planar Binding Raise Dead Scrying
6th Level
Blade Barrier Create Undead Find the Path Forbiddance Harm Heal Heroes' Feast Planar Ally True Seeing Word of Recall
7th Level
Conjure Celestial Divine Word Etherealness Fire Storm Plane Shift Regenerate Resurrection Symbol
8th Level
Antimagic Field Control Weather Earthquake Holy Aura
9th Level
Astral Projection Gate Mass Heal True Resurrection
Druid Spells
Cantrips (0 Level)
Druidcraft Guidance Mending Poison Spray Produce Flame Resistance Shillelagh Thorn Whip
1st Level
Animal Friendship Charm Person Create or Destroy Water Cure Wounds Detect Magic Detect Poison and Disease Entangle Faerie Fire Fog Cloud Goodberry Healing Word Jump Longstrider Purify Food and Drink Speak with Animals Thunderwave
2nd Level
Animal Messenger Barkskin Beast Sense Darkvision Enhance Ability Find Traps Flame Blade Flaming Sphere Gust of Wind Heat Metal Hold Person Lesser Restoration Locate Animals or Plants Locate Object Moonbeam Pass without Trace Protection from Poison Spike Growth
3rd Level
Call Lightning Conjure Animals Daylight Dispel Magic Feign Death Meld into Stone Plant Growth Protection from Energy Sleet Storm Speak with Plants Water Breathing Water Walk Wind Wall
4th Level
Blight Confusion Conjure Minor Elementals Conjure Woodland Beings Control Water Dominate Beast Freedom of Movement Giant Insect Grasping Vine Hallucinatory Terrain Ice Storm Locate Creature Polymorph Stone Shape Stoneskin Wall of Fire
5th Level
Antilife Shell Awaken Commune with Nature Conjure Elemental Contagion Geas Greater Restoration Insect Plague Mass Cure Wounds Planar Binding Reincarnate Scrying Tree Stride Wall of Stone
6th Level
Conjure Fey Find the Path Heal Heroes' Feast Move Earth Sunbeam Transport via Plants Wall of Thorns Wind Walk
7th Level
Fire Storm Mirage Arcane Plane Shift Regenerate Reverse Gravity
8th Level
Animal Shapes Antipathy/Sympathy Control Weather Earthquake Feeblemind Sunburst Tsunami
9th Level
Foresight Shapechange Storm of Vengeance True Resurrection
Paladin Spells
1st Level
Bless Command Compelled Duel Cure Wounds Detect Evil and Good Detect Magic Detect Poison and Disease Divine Favor Heroism Protection from Evil and Good Purify Food and Drink Searing Smite Shield of Faith Thunderous Smite Wrathful Smite
2nd Level
Aid Branding Smite Find Steed Lesser Restoration Locate Object Magic Weapon Protection from Poison Zone of Truth
3rd Level
Aura of Vitality Blinding Smite Create Food and Water Crusader’s Mantle Daylight Dispel Magic Elemental Weapon Magic Circle Remove Curse Revivify
4th Level
Aura of Life Aura of Purity Banishment Death Ward Locate Creature Staggering Smite
5th Level
Banishing Smite Circle of Power Destructive Wave Dispel Evil and Good Geas Raise Dead
Ranger Spells
1st Level
Alarm Animal Friendship Cure Wounds Detect Magic Detect Poison and Disease Ensnaring Strike Fog Cloud Goodberry Hail of Thorns Hunter’s Mark Jump Longstrider Speak with Animals
2nd Level
Animal Messenger Barkskin Beast Sense Cordon of Arrows Darkvision Find Traps Lesser Restoration Locate Animals or Plants Locate Object Pass without Trace Protection from Poison Silence Spike Growth
3rd Level
Conjure Animals Conjure Barrage Daylight Lightning Arrow Nondetection Plant Growth Protection from Energy Speak with Plants Water Breathing Water Walk Wind Wall
4th Level
Conjure Woodland Beings Freedom of Movement Grasping Vine Locate Creature Stoneskin
5th Level
Commune with Nature Conjure Volley Swift Quiver Tree Stride
Sorcerer Spells
Cantrips (0 Level)
Acid Splash Blade Ward Chill Touch Dancing Lights Fire Bolt Friends Light Mage Hand Mending Message Minor Illusion Poison Spray Prestidigitation Ray of Frost Shocking Grasp True Strike
1st Level
Burning Hands Charm Person Chromatic Orb Color Spray Comprehend Languages Detect Magic Disguise Self Expeditious Retreat False Life Feather Fall Fog Cloud Jump Mage Armor Magic Missile Ray of Sickness Shield Silent Image Sleep Thunderwave Witch Bolt
2nd Level
Alter Self Blindness/Deafness Blur Cloud of Daggers Crown of Madness Darkness Darkvision Detect Thoughts Enhance Ability Enlarge/Reduce Gust of Wind Hold Person Invisibility Knock Levitate Mirror Image Misty Step Phantasmal Force Scorching Ray See Invisibility Shatter Spider Climb Suggestion Web
3rd Level
Blink Clairvoyance Counterspell Daylight Dispel Magic Fear Fireball Fly Gaseous Form Haste Hypnotic Pattern Lightning Bolt Major Image Protection from Energy Sleet Storm Slow Stinking Cloud Tongues Water Breathing Water Walk
4th Level
Banishment Blight Confusion Dimension Door Dominate Beast Greater Invisibility Ice Storm Polymorph Stoneskin Wall of Fire
5th Level
Animate Objects Cloudkill Cone of Cold Creation Dominate Person Hold Monster Insect Plague Seeming Telekinesis Teleportation Circle Wall of Stone
6th Level
Arcane Gate Chain Lightning Circle of Death Disintegrate Eyebite Globe of Invulnerability Mass Suggestion Move Earth Sunbeam True Seeing
7th Level
Delayed Blast Fireball Etherealness Finger of Death Fire Storm Plane Shift Prismatic Spray Reverse Gravity Teleport
8th Level
Dominate Monster Earthquake Incendiary Cloud Power Word Stun Sunburst
9th Level
Gate Meteor Swarm Power Word Kill Time Stop Wish
Warlock Spells
Cantrips (0 Level)
Blade Ward Chill Touch Eldritch Blast Friends Mage Hand Minor Illusion Poison Spray Prestidigitation True Strike
1st Level
Armor of Agathys Arms of Hadar Charm Person Comprehend Languages Expeditious Retreat Hellish Rebuke Hex Illusory Script Protection from Evil and Good Unseen Servant Witch Bolt
2nd Level
Cloud of Daggers Crown of Madness Darkness Enthrall Hold Person Invisibility Mirror Image Misty Step Ray of Enfeeblement Shatter Spider Climb Suggestion
3rd Level
Counterspell Dispel Magic Fear Fly Gaseous Form Hunger of Hadar Hypnotic Pattern Magic Circle Major Image Remove Curse Tongues Vampiric Touch
4th Level
Banishment Blight Dimension Door Hallucinatory Terrain
5th Level
Contact Other Plane Dream Hold Monster Scrying
6th Level
Arcane Gate Circle of Death Conjure Fey Create Undead Eyebite Flesh to Stone Mass Suggestion True Seeing
7th Level
Etherealness Finger of Death Forcecage Plane Shift
8th Level
Demiplane Dominate Monster Feeblemind Glibness Power Word Stun
9th Level
Astral Projection Foresight Imprisonment Power Word Kill True Polymorph
Wizard Spells
Cantrips (0 Level)
Acid Splash Blade Ward Chill Touch Dancing Lights Fire Bolt Friends Light Mage Hand Mending Message Minor Illusion Poison Spray Prestidigitation Ray of Frost Shocking Grasp True Strike
1st Level
Alarm Burning Hands Charm Person Chromatic Orb Color Spray Comprehend Languages Detect Magic Disguise Self Expeditious Retreat False Life Feather Fall Find Familiar Fog Cloud Grease Identify Illusory Script Jump Longstrider Mage Armor Magic Missile Protection from Evil and Good Ray of Sickness Shield Silent Image Sleep Tasha’s Hideous Laughter Tenser’s Floating Disk Thunderwave Unseen Servant Witch Bolt
2nd Level
Alter Self Arcane Lock Blindness/Deafness Blur Cloud of Daggers Continual Flame Crown of Madness Darkness Darkvision Detect Thoughts Enlarge/Reduce Flaming Sphere Gentle Repose Gust of Wind Hold Person Invisibility Knock Levitate Locate Object Magic Mouth Magic Weapon Melf’s Acid Arrow Mirror Image Misty Step Nystul’s Magic Aura Phantasmal Force Ray of Enfeeblement Rope Trick Scorching Ray See Invisibility Shatter Spider Climb Suggestion Web
3rd Level
Animate Dead Bestow Curse Blink Clairvoyance Counterspell Dispel Magic Fear Feign Death Fireball Fly Gaseous Form Glyph of Warding Haste Hypnotic Pattern Leomund’s Tiny Hut Lightning Bolt Magic Circle Major Image Nondetection Phantom Steed Protection from Energy Remove Curse Sending Sleet Storm Slow Stinking Cloud Tongues Vampiric Touch Water Breathing
4th Level
Arcane Eye Banishment Blight Confusion Conjure Minor Elementals Control Water Dimension Door Evard’s Black Tentacles Fabricate Fire Shield Greater Invisibility Hallucinatory Terrain Ice Storm Leomund’s Secret Chest Locate Creature Mordenkainen’s Faithful Hound Mordenkainen’s Private Sanctum Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere Phantasmal Killer Polymorph Stone Shape Stoneskin Wall of Fire
5th Level
Animate Objects Bigby’s Hand Cloudkill Cone of Cold Conjure Elemental Contact Other Plane Creation Dominate Person Dream Geas Hold Monster Legend Lore Mislead Modify Memory Passwall Planar Binding Rary’s Telepathic Bond Scrying Seeming Telekinesis Teleportation Circle Wall of Force Wall of Stone
6th Level
Arcane Gate Chain Lightning Circle of Death Contingency Create Undead Disintegrate Drawmij’s Instant Summons Eyebite Flesh to Stone Globe of Invulnerability Guards and Wards Magic Jar Mass Suggestion Move Earth Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere Otto’s Irresistible Dance Programmed Illusion Sunbeam True Seeing Wall of Ice
7th Level
Delayed Blast Fireball Etherealness Finger of Death Forcecage Mirage Arcane Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion Mordenkainen’s Sword Plane Shift Prismatic Spray Project Image Reverse Gravity Sequester Simulacrum Symbol Teleport
8th Level
Antimagic Field Antipathy/Sympathy Clone Control Weather Demiplane Dominate Monster Feeblemind Incendiary Cloud Maze Mind Blank Power Word Stun Sunburst Telepathy
9th Level
Astral Projection Foresight Gate Imprisonment Meteor Swarm Power Word Kill Prismatic Wall Shapechange Time Stop True Polymorph Weird Wish
Spell Descriptions
The spells are presented in alphabetical order.
Acid Splash Aid Alarm Alter Self Animal Friendship Animal Messenger Animal Shapes Animate Dead Animate Objects Antilife Shell Antimagic Field Antipathy/Sympathy Arcane Eye Arcane Gate Arcane Lock Armor of Agathys Arms of Hadar Astral Projection Augury Aura of Life Aura of Purity Aura of Vitality Awaken Bane Banishing Smite Banishment Barkskin Beacon of Hope Beast Sense Bestow Curse Bigby’s Hand Blade Barrier Blade Ward Bless Blight Blinding Smite Blindness/Deafness Blink Blur Branding Smite Burning Hands Call Lightning Calm Emotions Chain Lightning Charm Person Chill Touch Chromatic Orb Circle of Death Circle of Power Clairvoyance Clone Cloud of Daggers Cloudkill Color Spray Command Commune Commune with Nature Compelled Duel Comprehend Languages Compulsion Cone of Cold Confusion Conjure Animals Conjure Barrage Conjure Celestial Conjure Elemental Conjure Fey Conjure Minor Elementals Conjure Volley Conjure Woodland Beings Contact Other Plane Contagion Contingency Continual Flame Control Water Control Weather Cordon of Arrows Counterspell Create Food and Water Create or Destroy Water Create Undead Creation Crown of Madness Crusader’s Mantle Cure Wounds Dancing Lights Darkness Darkvision Daylight Death Ward Delayed Blast Fireball Demiplane Destructive Wave Detect Evil and Good Detect Magic Detect Poison and Disease Detect Thoughts Dimension Door Disguise Self Disintegrate Dispel Evil and Good Dispel Magic Dissonant Whispers Divination Divine Favor Divine Word Dominate Beast Dominate Monster Dominate Person Drawmij’s Instant Summons Dream Druidcraft Earthquake Eldritch Blast Elemental Weapon Enhance Ability Enlarge/Reduce Ensnaring Strike Entangle Enthrall Etherealness Evard’s Black Tentacles Expeditious Retreat Eyebite Fabricate Faerie Fire False Life Fear Feather Fall Feeblemind Feign Death Find Familiar Find Steed Find the Path Find Traps Finger of Death Fire Bolt Fire Shield Fire Storm Fireball Flame Blade Flame Strike Flaming Sphere Flesh to Stone Fly Fog Cloud Forbiddance Forcecage Foresight Freedom of Movement Friends Gaseous Form Gate Geas Gentle Repose Giant Insect Glibness Globe of Invulnerability Glyph of Warding Goodberry Grasping Vine Grease Greater Invisibility Greater Restoration Guardian of Faith Guards and Wards Guidance Guiding Bolt Gust of Wind Hail of Thorns Hallow Hallucinatory Terrain Harm Haste Heal Healing Word Heat Metal Hellish Rebuke Heroes' Feast Heroism Hex Hold Monster Hold Person Holy Aura Hunger of Hadar Hunter’s Mark Hypnotic Pattern Ice Storm Identify Illusory Script Imprisonment Incendiary Cloud Inflict Wounds Insect Plague Invisibility Jump Knock Legend Lore Leomund’s Secret Chest Leomund’s Tiny Hut Lesser Restoration Levitate Light Lightning Arrow Lightning Bolt Locate Animals or Plants Locate Creature Locate Object Longstrider Mage Armor Mage Hand Magic Circle Magic Jar Magic Missile Magic Mouth Magic Weapon Major Image Mass Cure Wounds Mass Heal Mass Healing Word Mass Suggestion Maze Meld into Stone Melf’s Acid Arrow Mending Message Meteor Swarm Mind Blank Minor Illusion Mirage Arcane Mirror Image Mislead Misty Step Modify Memory Moonbeam Mordenkainen’s Faithful Hound Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion Mordenkainen’s Private Sanctum Mordenkainen’s Sword Move Earth Nondetection Nystul’s Magic Aura Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere Otto’s Irresistible Dance Pass without Trace Passwall Phantasmal Force Phantasmal Killer Phantom Steed Planar Ally Planar Binding Plane Shift Plant Growth Poison Spray Polymorph Power Word Heal Power Word Kill Power Word Stun Prayer of Healing Prestidigitation Prismatic Spray Prismatic Wall Produce Flame Programmed Illusion Project Image Protection from Energy Protection from Evil and Good Protection from Poison Purify Food and Drink Raise Dead Rary’s Telepathic Bond Ray of Enfeeblement Ray of Frost Ray of Sickness Regenerate Reincarnate Remove Curse Resistance Resurrection Reverse Gravity Revivify Rope Trick Sacred Flame Sanctuary Scorching Ray Scrying Searing Smite See Invisibility Seeming Sending Sequester Shapechange Shatter Shield Shield of Faith Shillelagh Shocking Grasp Silence Silent Image Simulacrum Sleep Sleet Storm Slow Spare the Dying Speak with Animals Speak with Dead Speak with Plants Spider Climb Spike Growth Spirit Guardians Spiritual Weapon Staggering Smite Stinking Cloud Stone Shape Stoneskin Storm of Vengeance Suggestion Sunbeam Sunburst Swift Quiver Symbol Tasha’s Hideous Laughter Telekinesis Telepathy Teleport Teleportation Circle Tenser’s Floating Disk Thaumaturgy Thorn Whip Thunderous Smite Thunderwave Time Stop Tongues Transport via Plants Tree Stride True Polymorph True Resurrection True Seeing True Strike Tsunami Unseen Servant Vampiric Touch Vicious Mockery Wall of Fire Wall of Force Wall of Ice Wall of Stone Wall of Thorns Warding Bond Water Breathing Water Walk Web Weird Wind Walk Wind Wall Wish Witch Bolt Word of Recall Wrathful Smite Zone of Truth