Bigby's Icy Grasp

Bigby's Icy Grasp

Wizard attack 5

Daily ✦ arcane, cold, conjuration, implement

Standard Action

Ranged 20

Effect: You conjure a 5-foot-tall hand of ice in an unoccupied square within range. The hand lasts until the end of your next turn. When the hand appears, it immediately makes the following attack. While the hand persists and doesn’t have a creature grabbed, you can use a standard action to command it to make the attack again or a move action to move it up to 6 squares.

Target: One creature adjacent to the hand
Attack: Intelligence vs Reflex

Hit: 2d8 + Intelligence modifier cold damage, and the hand grabs the target. The hand uses your Fortitude or Reflex if the target attempts to escape. You can end the grab as a free action.

Sustain minor: The hand persists until the end of your next turn, and a creature grabbed by the hand takes 1d8 + Intelligence modifier cold damage.

Bigby's Icy Grasp is a daily power available to wizards at 5th level.^[PH:161] The "Class Compendium: The Arcanist" article in Dragon #401 cleaned up the language of the original version. Among other things, the power's duration was clarified, as was the ability to release and to make further attacks.^[Dr401:58]