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At 4th level, a Magus (Mindblade) gains a class feature called Psychic Access. Amongst other things, Psychic Access declares that when a magus takes the Spell Blending Arcana, they select spells from the Psychic List instead of the Wizard List. However, Spell Blending can normally be taken as early as 3rd level.
What happens when a Magus takes Spell Blending before receiving Psychic Access?
Was the archetype intended to prevent them from doing so?
If not, do they select those spells from the wizard list (assuming they take Spell Blending at 3rd level)?
If they do select spells from the wizard list, what happens when they reach 4th level and Psychic Access changes how Spell Blending functions:
Do they have to select new spells from the psychic list to replace those they selected from the Wizard List?
Or do they keep the spells they selected from the wizard list and select future spells from the psychic list (assuming they take Spell Blending again at 6th level)?
*Bump* My curiosity is insatiable.
For me, the overall design of the archetype suggests that the modification to Spell Blending is supposed to apply at all levels, but that isn't clear from a strict reading. FAQ'd.
Thank you for the click!
I am inclined to agree that was the intent. Likely the archetype's designer either forgot Magi received an Arcana at 3rd, or thought that Spell Blending couldn't be taken until 6th.
There are several elements of this archetype whose interaction with existing Arcana is unclear. I have been doing a lot of research trying to figure out which options are actually viable for a Mindblade... The list is rather small, there are surprisingly few Magus Arcana, fewer which are viable, and fewer still which are viable for a Mindblade.