ITT: Best magic spells

Fireball is the best spell.
It's so elegant in its simplicity: just a ball of fucking fire, chuck it at a target and watch them burn. None of the fancy-pansy overcomplicated bullshit.
It fits in nearly any world, setting, system, or magical rules: few are the ones that, given a sufficient amount of power and experience at least, wouldn't allow you to mold their arcane energies into a ball of incendiary doom. Those few exceptions suck.
It's devastatingly effective: there's so many problems a well-aimed explosion could solve.
It makes for fancy fireworks, glows nicely in the dark, and you can do barbeque afterwards.
The screams of the dying are a music in my ears, and the smell of roasting flesh mouth-watering...
It's simply the best.

What is your best magic spell?

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Wish or Miracle

Demon of the third circle is my favorite. That or maybe benediction of archgenisis

Polymorph/Shapechange might be my spell to go. I love all trasmutation spells due their impressive flexibility, but these two take the cake.
Need to fly? Turn into a giant bird! Need to shoot fire? Turn into a dragon! Need to fight in melee? Become an hydra and lay waste on all who cross you!
It's likely another spell that has been quite iconic since ancient mythology and more.

Fireball's okay, but it's messy and does a lot of collateral damage.

I'd go with Disintegrate instead. Much more focused, instantly deadly, and looks cool.

Not so much a specific spell as it is a type of spell, but summoning is to me the defining wizard magic. Circles of salt, weird names recited backwards, angry spirits hissing riddles with forked tongues, all that stuff.

>fireball is the best spell

What about against creatures immune to fire?

Fringe cases, too rare to make a real impact on things. If you were to take them into account, you'd also need to include the creatures particularly weak to fire: the two would cancel each other out.

Fireball is pleb tier.

Now it's better, more interesting sibling, Delayed Blast Fireball? That's the best damn spell ever. Everything Fireball does with more damage, more control, and the ability to be used as one of the most traumatizing interrogation methods on the planet.
>Tie down victim.
>Force open mouth.
>You know how Delayed Blast Fireball manifests as a tiny fire-y pellet? Drop it down their throat.
>"You have thirty seconds to tell me what I want, or you explode"

Pure poetry.

>tfw my character actually got interrogated with a similar spell that would release acid
>"my character's smart enough to know this has a radius effect, right? I've been around wizards and seen this kind of thing before."
>"Yeah, OK. You don't know the specific range, but you do know this acid is going to blast out of your belly and spray in every direction."
>"I want to make a strength check to break my bonds and grapple the interrogator."
>I pass the test and hold the his head against my stomach
>"now by my count we have about twenty seconds for you to dispel that or we BOTH die"
>he makes one dispel attempt, fails (I suspect DM fiat because I derailed his torture scene) and wastes the remaining time shitting bricks
>mfw the acid damage roll was just high enough to kill the wizard but leave me alive and conscious