Mage Hand

Category: Baldur’s Gate Spells

Cantrip Conjuration spell available to Bards, Sorcerers, Warlocks, and Wizards. It summons a floating hand that can shove, throw, pull levers, and carry things from 18m away.

Spell description: Create a spectral hand that can manipulate and interact with objects.

Spell properties

  • Range: 18m (60ft)
  • Cost: Action
  • Recharge: Short rest

Spell upcasting

This cantrip does not scale.

How to obtain Mage Hand

  • Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard at Class level 1
  • Arcane Trickster (Rogue), Eldritch Knight (Fighter), and Swarmkeeper (Ranger) at Class level 3
  • High Elf, High Half-Elf, and Mephistopheles Tiefling at Character level 1
  • Granted by features: Magic Initiate: Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard
  • Source item: Djinni Ring

Mage Hand

Conjuration Cantrip

Create a spectral hand that can manipulate and interact with objects.

Range: 18m (60ft)
Action

When to cast Mage Hand

This is a puzzle and utility tool first. The hand pulls faraway levers, grabs items across gaps, disarms traps from a safe distance, and shoves enemies off ledges, which is the one genuinely nasty combat trick it has.

It also carries and throws, so it can lob a potion to a downed ally or drop a barrel of smokepowder somewhere inconvenient. It recharges on a Short rest rather than per turn, so the summoned hand is a resource, not something you spam.

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Spell properties

Level
Cantrip
School
Conjuration
Casting resource
Action
Damage type

Range
18m (60ft)
Duration
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