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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5355337" data-attributes="member: 90804">That's a hilarious question!  Mage's Weapon can only enchant a light blade or heavy blade, not a flail.  If you have Spiked Chain Training, you can treat the Spiked Chain as a light blade (well, each of end of it is a light blade).  But to anyone who doesn't have Spiked Chain Training, the Spiked Chain is a flail.Since we're talking about magic here, I'd rule it as follows:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you take Spiked Chain Training, then yes, you can enchant it with Mage's Weapon.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">However, if you then hand the Mage's Weapon Spiked Chain to someone who DOESN'T have Spiked Chain Training, it's now a flail in their hands, and the enchantment knows it - so the enchantment falls off!</li> </ul>Okay, I wouldn't really make the enchantment fall off, but I would rule that the enchantment does nothing in the hands of someone for whom the weapon isn't a light blade.  So, in your hands it's a +1 weapon with an encounter power.  In your buddy's hands it's just a non-magical Spiked Chain (and he's only proficient with it if he has the appropriate superior weapon feat or something else that gives him proficiency).  If he gives it back to you, though, the Mage's Weapon properties are available to you again.</blockquote>