Final Fantasy V - Black Magic

Use Black Magic with the Black Mage's !Black Magic command. All Black Magic except Drain and Aspir can be reflected.

For brevity's sake, on this page I'm shortening magic defense to MDef, evade rate to evade, magic evade rate to MEvd, and magic power to magic.

The basic damage formula for pretty much everything is Damage = (A - D) * M. It's what goes into A, D, and M that makes things interesting.

Since M acts as a damage multiplier, anything that modifies M modifies final damage. Modifiers to A and D have more complicated effects on final damage because A and D are compared to each other on the way to computing final damage. Note that most calculations are truncated (rounded down).

If a spell does not automatically hit, then it has a (hit rate)% chance per target to succeed. Each target then has an additional MEvd% chance to avoid it even if a success is determined.

Black Magic
ファイア	Fire	MP: 4	Price: 150
Flame damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits, except that the Aegis Shield can block it. A = Random(15, 16), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
ブリザド	Blizzard	MP: 4	Price: 150
Ice damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits, except that the Aegis Shield can block it. A = Random(15, 16), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
サンダー	Thunder	MP: 4	Price: 150
Thunder damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits, except that the Aegis Shield can block it. A = Random(15, 16), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
ポイズン	Poison	MP: 2	Price: 290
Adds 'poison' status to one enemy or ally. Hit rate = (99 + user's level - target's level)%.
スリプル	Sleepel	MP: 3	Price: 300
Adds 'sleep' status to one or all enemies or allies. Hit rate = (90 + user's level - target's level)%, halved when multitargeting.
トード	Toad	MP: 8	Price: 600
Toggles 'toad' status on one or all enemies or allies. Hit rate = (80 + user's level - target's level)%, halved when multitargeting. Toad can be found in the Istory Village, long before it's available in stores, by solving a minor puzzle.
The -ra spells are more than three times as powerful as their basic counterparts, but consume less than three times as much MP.
ファイラ	Fira	MP: 10	Price: 600
Flame damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits, except that the Aegis Shield can block it. A = Random(50, 56), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
ブリザラ	Blizzara	MP: 10	Price: 600
Ice damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits, except that the Aegis Shield can block it. A = Random(50, 56), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
サンダラ	Thundara	MP: 10	Price: 600
Thunder damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits, except that the Aegis Shield can block it. A = Random(50, 56), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
ドレイン	Drain	MP: 13	Price: 3000
Drains HP from a single enemy or ally, healing the caster by the amount it damages the target (reversed against the Undead). Unreflectable. A = Random(45, 50). D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4. Hit rate = (75 + user's level - target's level)%.
ブレイク	Break	MP: 15	Price: 3000
Adds 'petrified' status to one enemy or ally. Hit rate = (75 + user's level - target's level)%.
バイオ	Bio	MP: 16	Price: 3000
Poison damage and 'slip' status to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits, except that the Aegis Shield can block it. A = Random(105, 108), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef / 32. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
The -ga spells are more than three times as powerful as their -ra level counterparts, but consume less than three times as much MP.
ファイガ	Figa	MP: 25	Price: 6000
Flame damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits, except that the Aegis Shield can block it. A = Random(185, 208), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
ブリザガ	Blizzaga	MP: 25	Price: 6000
Ice damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits, except that the Aegis Shield can block it. A = Random(185, 208), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
サンダガ	Thundaga	MP: 25	Price: 6000
Thunder damage to one or all enemies or allies. Always hits, except that the Aegis Shield can block it. A = Random(185, 208), halved if multitargetting. D = MDef. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4.
フレア	Flare	MP: 39	Price: n/a
Damages one enemy or ally. Always hits (not even the Aegis Shield can block it). A = Random(254, 261). D = MDef / 32. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4. Flare, having high power and mostly ignoring magic defense, is the most damaging Black Magic spell against enemies not weak against Flame, Ice, or Thunder. However, the -ga spells are more effective when a target is weak to them—when striking a weakness, A is doubled and D is 0. Bio also works quite nicely against Poison-weak foes, hitting at a base 210 power for a fraction of Flare's cost, and inflicting 'slip' status as a bonus. Flare can't be bought. It must be won in the {Fork Tower}.
デス	Death	MP: 29	Price: 10,000
Kills one enemy or ally (inflicts 'incapacitated' status). Undead targets are immune and instead recover to full HP. Hit rate = (80 + user's level - target's level)%. Death is one of the few ways to heal a character wearing Bonemail. It's like Curega for the Undead.
アスピル	Aspir	MP: 1	Price: 10,000
As noted on numerous Japanese sites, アスピル appears to be short for "aspirate", to remove something by suction. Drains MP from a single enemy or ally, restoring to the caster the amount it removes from the target (reversed against the Undead). Unreflectable. A = Random(8, 9). D = MDef / 32. M = (level * magic)/256 + 4. Hit rate = (75 + user's level - target's level)%.

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