Animate Dead

Animate Dead is a level 3 necromancy spell. It allows spellcasters to animate a corpse to create an undead servant.

Description

Animate a corpse to create an undead servant while not in combat.

The target must be a Medium or Small corpse.

When the spell is cast at 4th Level, raise up to 3 Skeletons or Zombies instead of 1.
When the spell is cast at 5th Level, raise a Ghoul or Flying Ghoul.
When the spell is cast at 6th Level, raise up to 3 Ghouls or Flying Ghouls instead of 1.

UID

Target_AnimateDead

Spell flags

HasSomaticComponent, HasVerbalComponent, IsLinkedSpellContainer, IsSpell

Classes:

Class level 5: Cleric, Wizard, Circle of the Spores (Circle Spell), Warlock (via Pact of the Tome once per long rest), and Death Domain (Domain Spell)
Class level 6: College of Lore (via Magical Secrets) and Necromancer (via Necromancy School)
Class level 9: Oathbreaker (Oath Spell)
Class level 10: Bard (via Magical Secrets)

Granted by items:

Other ways to learn:

Each individual caster can only have one instance of this spell active at a time, no matter which version is used. Casting it again while an undead summons is already present dismisses the previous one.
Wizards with the Necromancy School subclass can raise an additional undead for each level and version of the spell.
None of these summoned undead have melee weapons, so they are not affected by  Aura of Hate from Oathbreaker Paladin.
A Sorcerer may apply Twinned Spell on a casting of Animate Dead from a Scroll, but only one creature is raised; the other is immediately destroyed as if the caster had cast two instances, wasting Sorcery Points in the process.
If the caster unprepares this spell, the summoned undead will remain.
A corpse can be reused multiple times for raising undead.

When selecting between variants, the controller UI incorrectly indicates that the spell targets three corpses by default.