Does Mind Blank protect against the predicting effects of Foresight?


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Consider the following scenario: Alice the wizard has cast foresight on herself and is attending a royal ball. At the ball Bob the assassin intends to kill her and has had mind blank cast on him. She slips away for a moment and Bob seizes this opportunity to attack. Does Alice's foresight give her a warning? According to foresight and mind blank:

Foresight wrote:
This spell grants you a powerful sixth sense in relation to yourself or another. Once foresight is cast, you receive instantaneous warnings of impending danger or harm to the subject of the spell. You are never surprised or flat-footed. In addition, the spell gives you a general idea of what action you might take to best protect yourself and gives you a +2 insight bonus to AC and on Reflex saves. This insight bonus is lost whenever you would lose a Dexterity bonus to AC.
Mind Blank wrote:
The subject is protected from all devices and spells that gather information about the target through divination magic (such as detect evil, locate creature, scry, and see invisible).

Foresight is a divination spell, and to provide an "instantaneous warning" of "imminent danger" it logically implies the foresight is able to discern Bob's murderous intent. But since mind blank explicitly says that it protects its subject against all spells that gather information about the subject, it seems clear that Alice would not receive a warning about Bob. Furthermore, does Alice even get the immunity to surprise and being flat-footed from Bob? The spell is less clear, but as written it suggests that these "immediate warnings" are what provides the surprise and flat-footed immunities, so if Alice doesn't get a warning, she'd still be surprised. Thoughts?


Foresight is personal or touch to protect.

Mind blank protects from spells that benefit about the target.

Bob isnt the target.

I think foresight would still work.

Liberty's Edge

Foresight doesn't "gather information about the target through divination magic". It gives the caster information about dangers to the target of the spell. It and Mind Blank don't interact at all unless the target of Foresight is the one under the influence of Mind Blank.

While the spell doesn't explain at all on what principle it works, the simplest explanation is that it literally gives a limited form of foresight, so that the caster will get a hit of what will happen to the target the next second.

Only if the target of Foresight is the one under the influence of Mind Blank it will not work.

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