Magus Arcana
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As he gains levels, a magus learns arcane secrets tailored to his specific way of blending martial puissance and magical skill. Unless specifically noted in a magus arcana’s description, a magus cannot select a particular magus arcana more than once. Magus arcana that affect spells can only be used to modify spells from the magus spell list unless otherwise noted.
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| Magus Arcana | Prerequisites | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Accurate Strike (Ex) | Magus 9 | Use your arcane pool to make your melee attacks as touch attacks |
| Aquatic Agility (Su) | Magus 6 | Use your arcane pool to gain the ability to breathe water |
| Arcane Accuracy (Su) | — | Use your arcane pool to grant an insight bonus to attack rolls |
| Arcane Cloak (Su) | — | Use your arcane pool to give a bonus to your Stealth and Bluff checks |
| Arcane Dealer (Su) | Magus 6 | Gain the Deadly Dealer feat, even if you do not meet the prerequisites |
| Arcane Deed (Ex) | Flamboyant arcana | Gain a swashbuckler deed. The deed must be able to be used by a swashbuckler of your magus level. You can use that deed by spending points from your arcane pool as the panache points required for that deed. |
| Arcane Edge (Su) | Magus 9 | Use your arcane pool to do bleed damage |
| Arcane Redoubt (Su) | — | Use your arcane pool to give yourself a bonus to your touch AC |
| Arcane Redoubt, Greater (Su) | Magus 12, arcane redoubt | Use your arcane pool to increase your AC and evade attacks |
| Arcane Scent (Ex) | — | Use your arcane pool to sniff out other spellcasters |
| Bane Blade (Su) | Magus 15 | Use your arcane pool to give your weapon the bane effect |
| Book-bound (Su) | — | While wielding spellbook in off-hand, you can take an immediate action to gain a bonus on a concentration checks within the next round. |
| Broad Study (Ex) | Magus 6, levels in another spellcasting class | You can use your spellstrike and spell combat abilities with spells from another class spell list |
| Circle of Order (Su) | Magus 9 | Spend arcane pool points to fortify defense against chaotic attacks. |
| Close Range (Ex) | — | You can use ranged touch attacks as melee touch attacks |
| Concentrate (Ex) | — | You can reroll a concentration check |
| Critical Strike (Su) | Magus 12 | When you score a critical hit use a swift action to cast a touch attack spell |
| Dark Shifter (Su) | Magus 6 | Expend arcane pool points to change the target of an ongoing spell effect with the darkness descriptor. |
| Devoted Blade (Su) | Magus 12 | Use your arcane pool to add anarchic, axiomatic, holy, or unholy to your weapon |
| Dispelling Strike (Su) | Magus 9 | Use your arcane pool to cast a dispel magic when you hit |
| Disruptive (Ex) | Magus 6 | Gain Disruptive as a bonus feat |
| Distant Spellstrike (Su) | Magus 12, ranged spellstrike | The range of any spell the magus delivers through a ranged weapon attack increases to the maximum range of the weapon if that is greater than the spell’s range. |
| Divinatory Strike (Su) | — | Learn about a foe you’ve scored a critical hit against |
| Enduring Blade (Su) | Magus 6 | Increase the duration of your arcane pool weapon enchants |
| Empowered Magic (Su) | Magus 6 | Cast one spell per day with the Empower Spell feat |
| Familiar (Ex) | — | Gain a familiar |
| Flamboyant Arcana (Ex) | — | Gain the derring-do and opportune parry and riposte swashbuckler deeds. |
| Ghost Blade (Su) | Magus 9 | You can also enchant your weapon with brilliant energy and ghost touch |
| Hasted Assault (Su) | Magus 9 | Cast haste on yourself using your arcane pool |
| Intuitive Protection (Sp) | Magus 3 | When a conjuration (summoning) spell is cast by an opponent and you successfully identify the spell with a Spellcraft check, you can spend 1 arcane pool point as an immediate action to cast protection from chaos/evil/good/law (chosen when using this ability) on yourself; lasting a number of rounds equal to your magus level. |
| Ki Arcana (Ex) | Magus 6, levels in a class that grants a ki pool | You may use points from your arcana pool and ki pool interchangeably |
| Lingering Pain (Su) | — | Make it harder for foes you hurt to cast a spell |
| Maneuver Mastery (Ex) | — | Use your magus level instead of your BAB when performing one combat maneuver |
| Maximized Magic (Su) | Magus 12 | Cast one spell per day with the Maximize Spell feat |
| Natural Spell Combat (Ex) | — | Make use of your natural attacks with spell combat |
| Planar Hunter (Su) | Magus 9 | Whenever you enhance your weapon using your arcane pool, you can spend 1 additional arcane pool point to add the planar special ability to the weapon, or 2 additional points to add the phase locking special ability. |
| Pool Ray | — | Expend arcane pool points to infuse a ranged weapon with elemental power. |
| Pool Strike (Su) | — | Make a melee touch attack that deals elemental damage |
| Pool Strike, Arcing (Su) | Magus 12, pool strike | If your melee attack hits, the pool strike elemental damage can jump to other nearby enemies |
| Pool Strike, Clinging (Su) | Magus 9, pool strike | Do damage over time with your pool strike |
| Pool Strike, Thunderous (Su) | Magus 6, pool strike | Deal sonic damage with your pool strike |
| Prescient Attack (Su) | Magus 6 | Use your arcane pool to deny your opponents their Dexterity bonus |
| Prescient Defense (Su) | Magus 9 | Use your arcane pool to increase your reflexes |
| Quickened Magic (Su) | Magus 15 | Cast one spell per day with the Quicken Spell feat |
| Rakshasa’s Fortune (Su) | Magus 9 | Whenever you cast a spell of the polymorph subschool on yourself, draw a card from a harrow deck as a free action |
| Ranger Trap | Magus 10 | You learn a ranger trap. |
| Reach Magic | — | Cast 1 spell/day as if modified by Reach Spell but doesn’t increase the spell’s casting time or level. |
| Reach Spellstrike (Su) | Magus 9, ranged spellstrike | The magus can deliver spells with a range of touch with ranged spellstrike up to a maximum range of close (25 feet + 5 feet per 2 caster levels). |
| Reflection (Su) | Magus 15 | Reflect a spell back at its caster |
| Rod Mastery (Su) | — | Use your Intelligence modifier instead of the minimum modifier for the DC when using a rod |
| Rod Wielder (Su) | — | Use your Intelligence when using a rod to overcome SR |
| Scroll Mastery (Su) | Magus 6 | You may expend 1 pt from your arcana pool to calculate DC for a spell on a scroll using your Int modifier |
| Silent Magic (Su) | — | Cast one spell per day with the Silent Spell feat |
| Spell Blending (Ex) | — | When a magus selects this arcana, he must select one spell from the wizard spell list that is of a magus spell level he can cast. He adds this spell to his spellbook and list of magus spells known as a magus spell of its wizard spell level. He can instead select two spells to add in this way, but both must be at least one level lower than the highest-level magus spell he can cast. |
| Spell Shield (Su) | — | Grant yourself a shield bonus to your AC |
| Spell Trickery (Ex) | Magus 12 | When you use the Dirty Trick combat maneuver, cast an illusion or enchantment spell as a swift action |
| Spell-Scars (Ex) | — | Scribe scar-based tattoos on yourself that you can cast from as scrolls |
| Spellbreaker (Ex) | Magus 9 | Gain Spellbreaker as a bonus feat. |
| Still Magic (Su) | — | Cast one spell per day with the Still Spell feat |
| Throwing Magus | — | When you enhance your weapon using your arcane pool, you can spend 1 additional arcane pool point to add the returning and throwing abilities. |
| Vision-Clouding Strike | Magus 9, fetchling | Expend 1 or more arcane pool points as a swift action to empower weapon with shadowy energy. |
| Wand Mastery (Su) | — | Use your Intelligence modifier instead of the minimum modifier needed to cast a spell that level for the DC when using a wand |
| Wand Wielder (Su) | — | Use a wand or staff instead of casting a spell when using spell combat |
| Wave Step (Sp) | Magus 6 | Spend arcane pool points to water walk. |