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# Cloud of Daggers
Source: Player's Handbook

_2nd-level conjuration_

**Casting Time:** 1 action  
**Range:** 60 feet  
**Components:** V, S, M (a sliver of glass)  
**Duration:** Concentration, up to 1 minute

You fill the air with spinning daggers in a cube 5 feet on each side, centered on a point you choose within range. A creature takes 4d4 slashing damage when it enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there.

**_At Higher Levels._** When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 2d4 for each slot level above 2nd.

**_Spell Lists._**  [[07-Compendium/classes/bard|Bard]], [[07-Compendium/classes/sorcerer|Sorcerer]], [[07-Compendium/classes/warlock|Warlock]], [[07-Compendium/classes/wizard|Wizard]]