Spiritualist's Phantom

[Beriliand]

Hi,

I'm creating a Shadow Caller, an archetipe for spiritualists that uses a shade instead of a phantom and I was wandering how do cure and inflict spells affect them.

It says it doesn't regain hp on its own and it starts with half hp if it was sent to its plane for being killed as a summoner's eidolon but it doesn't say how to heal its hp.

Since the book only states that the phantom is an Outsider I was assuming you can cast cure spells on it but then I remembered that incorporeals and shadows are considered undead and thus they are healed by inflict spells.

So can anyone tell me how to heal a phantom or shade's hp? with cure spells or inflict spells since the spiritualist can cast both.

Thanks.

[AmosTrask32]

Cure spells.

Incorporeal doesn't have anything to do with it. Undead are healed by negative energy, constructs are healed with repair magic, everything else (without class features or curses) is healed by positive energy. Outsider is not undead or Construct, so you're good to go.

[Cevah]

Shadow Caller (SRD):

Shade wrote:

A shadow caller gains a special kind of phantom known as a shade. A shade functions as a phantom, except as noted below. A shade is from the Shadow Plane instead of the Ethereal Plane. A shade is not confined to the shadow caller’s consciousness, but instead inhabits her shadow.

This ability alters phantom.

So a shade is a phantom.

Spiritualist (PRD) (scroll down past the spell list)

Phantoms wrote:

Phantoms are considered outsiders for the purpose of determining which spells affect them.

So a phantom counts as an outsider.

Creature Types (PRD)

Outsider wrote:

Unlike most living creatures, an outsider does not have a dual nature—its soul and body form one unit. When an outsider is slain, no soul is set loose. Spells that restore souls to their bodies, such as raise dead, reincarnate, and resurrection, don't work on an outsider. It takes a different magical effect, such as limited wish, wish, miracle, or true resurrection to restore it to life. An outsider with the native subtype can be raised, reincarnated, or resurrected just as other living creatures can be.

Outsiders are considered living creatures.

Therefore you use cure to heal them.

/cevah