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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7229722" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Command is possibly the least magical spell of all time. You tell someone to do something, and they do it. That's not magic.Spiritual Hammer and Animate Dead cause things to move around, when usually they don't. They're exactly the sort of thing which are easy to fake. The same is true of Blade Barrier, possibly, I don't really remember that one.Sticks to Snakes, they could have been snakes all along. If you cast Earthquake, then an earthquake could have happened anyway. There's reasonable doubt.Flame Strike is an outlier, because it causes fire. Pillars of fire don't normally just happen for no reason. I guess Light might not be subtle, if you cast it on an object rather than a point, but if you do cast it on a point then there is no magical effect that you can look at and declare as obviously magical.Most of what a priest could do, could be done without giving an appearance of obvious magic. Sometimes you had to do things that couldn't be done subtly, because the required effect was too great, but even those were done with less flash than the arcane equivalent. Regardless, teleporting twenty feet as a second level spell doesn't fit with that.</blockquote>