You create a vertical wall of whirling, razor-sharp blades made of magical energy.

You can make a straight wall up to 100 feet long, 20 feet high, and 5 feet thick, or a ringed wall up to 60 feet in diameter, 20 feet high, and 5 feet thick.

The wall provides cover to creatures behind it, and its space is difficult terrain.

Incantations escape your lips as palms meet the ground. Hissing steel emerges—phantasmal blades of pure magic, swift and ruthless. They pierce the earth, a deadly barrier, impaling any daring to breach the threshold.

I Cast Blade Barrier
Before us, I command a wall into existence. My voice shapes magical blades, conjured by cutting and slicing gestures. The language transforms from deep and earthy to sharp hisses, accompanied by gnashing teeth. The wall of blades emerges, a whirling, slashing menace rising from the ground.