# Decay

- **Level**: Cantrip Necromancy
- **Classes**: Cleric, Druid, Warlock, Wizard
- **Casting Time**: 1 action
- **Range**: Touch
- **Components**: V, S, M (a handful of ash)
- **Duration**: Instantaneous
- **Source**: Deep Magic 5e

Make a melee spell attack against a creature you touch. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 necrotic damage. If the target is a Tiny or Small nonmagical object that isn’t being worn or carried by a creature, it automatically takes maximum damage from the spell.

**Cantrip Upgrade.** This spell's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).