Soul Strike

1st-level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Reaction, which you take when you miss an attack with a melee weapon
• Range: Touch
• Components: V
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Paladin, Sorcerer, Wizard, Cleric, Bard

"It's one melee weapon attack, Michael. What could it do? Six damage?"

You draw a target's very soul into the path of your melee weapon. The target of the attack you missed must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, the target's soul becomes slightly displaced from their body. Your original attack strikes their soul, and all its damage is converted to psychic damage.

At higher levels: If cast using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, ???