Spell Conduit / Spell Strike


Rules Questions


If I'm a Bloodrager (Blood Conduit) / Magus (Staff Magus) with Tripping Staff, can I do the following in succession:

1) Cast a touch spell
2) Spellstrike my enemy with a Trip
3) Cast a touch spell as a swift action via Spell Conduit

Thanks for any help you can provide. :)

Additional Question: Could a Bloodrager (Blood Conduit) / Magus / Monk do the same by just punching?

Spellstrike:
At 2nd level, whenever a magus casts a spell with a range of “touch” from the magus spell list, he can deliver the spell through any weapon he is wielding as part of a melee attack. Instead of the free melee touch attack normally allowed to deliver the spell, a magus can make one free melee attack with his weapon (at his highest base attack bonus) as part of casting this spell. If successful, this melee attack deals its normal damage as well as the effects of the spell. If the magus makes this attack in concert with spell combat, this melee attack takes all the penalties accrued by spell combat melee attacks. This attack uses the weapon’s critical range (20, 19–20, or 18–20 and modified by the keen weapon property or similar effects), but the spell effect only deals ×2 damage on a successful critical hit, while the weapon damage uses its own critical modifier.

Tripping Staff:

Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Trip, Weapon Focus (quarterstaff ), base attack bonus +6.

Benefit: You treat quarterstaves as if they had the trip special feature.

Special: If you are a magus with the staff magus archetype, you can use spellstrike on any trip combat maneuver you make with the staff.

Spell Conduit:
Spell Conduit (Su)

At 5th level, as long as a blood conduit is wearing light or no armor, he can deliver bloodrager spells with a range of touch through bodily contact. When he succeeds at a combat maneuver check to bull rush, grapple, pin, reposition, or trip an opponent, or makes an unarmed strike against an enemy, he can as a swift action cast a touch spell on the creature that he affected with the combat maneuver, requiring no further touch attack roll. If this spell would usually require a successful touch attack, his successful combat maneuver check counts as this attack.

This ability replaces uncanny dodge and improved uncanny dodge.


You cannot deliver bloodrager spells via spellstrike unless you have the Broad Study arcana.

That said, Spell Conduit would seem to allow you to target the tripped opponent directly with the touch spell. You won't get to apply damage from your staff, but you can cast and deliver the spell.

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