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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1302147" data-attributes="member: 1656">I agree, though there is room for you to contest it.A Stone-to-Fleshed statue becomes a corpse.&nbsp; This is explicit in the spell text.What it is not is a &quot;dead creature&quot;.Raise Dead targets a dead creature; it is not a dead creature, so it is an invalid target for Raise Dead.Animate Dead targets one or more corpses.&nbsp; Create Undead targets a corpse.&nbsp; It is a corpse, therefore it is a valid target for these spells.The wiggle room is that the first sentence of flavour text for Animate Dead states that it turns the bodies of dead creatures into skeletons or zombies.&nbsp; If you claim that this is an exclusive rules provision, then it allows you to animate that dead orc over there (both a corpse, and the body of a dead creature), but not this transmuted statue (a corpse, but not the body of a dead creature).And since Create Undead is explicitly a more powerful version of Animate Dead, you can argue that the same provision applies.Now, I personally think that Create Undead is unambiguously useable with a transmuted statue.&nbsp; But there's further room for denial with Animate Dead - to create a skeleton, the corpse must have bones, and Stone to Flesh creates a corpse, but doesn't mention bones.&nbsp; To create a zombie, you must have the corpse of a creature with an anatomy, and the transmuted statue is not the corpse of a creature at all, but rather the corpse of a representation of a creature.So you can argue against Customer Service's reply if you disagree with it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-Hyp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 1302147, member: 1656"] I agree, though there is room for you to contest it. A Stone-to-Fleshed statue becomes a corpse. This is explicit in the spell text. What it is [i]not[/i] is a "dead creature". Raise Dead targets a dead creature; it is not a dead creature, so it is an invalid target for Raise Dead. Animate Dead targets one or more corpses. Create Undead targets a corpse. It is a corpse, therefore it is a valid target for these spells. The wiggle room is that the first sentence of flavour text for Animate Dead states that it turns the bodies of [i]dead creatures[/i] into skeletons or zombies. If you claim that this is an exclusive rules provision, then it allows you to animate that dead orc over there (both a corpse, [i]and[/i] the body of a dead creature), but not this transmuted statue (a corpse, but not the body of a dead creature). And since Create Undead is explicitly a more powerful version of Animate Dead, you can argue that the same provision applies. Now, I personally think that Create Undead is unambiguously useable with a transmuted statue. But there's further room for denial with Animate Dead - to create a skeleton, the corpse [i]must have bones[/i], and Stone to Flesh creates a corpse, but doesn't mention bones. To create a zombie, you must have the corpse [i]of a creature with an anatomy[/i], and the transmuted statue is not the corpse [i]of a creature[/i] at all, but rather the corpse of a [i]representation[/i] of a creature. So you can argue against Customer Service's reply if you disagree with it :) -Hyp. [/QUOTE]

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