Fey Switch in Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons

The official Warlock site describes Fey Switch in one sentence: quickly switch Kaatri’s current position for that of a monster in her vicinity. That is the whole tooltip. It appears in the partial grimoire alongside Witch Bolt, Eldritch Blast, Gust of Wind, Black Tentacles, Misty Step, Tasha’s Leash, a long jump, and the Downpour ritual. Invoke has not said how many spells Kaatri carries in total or whether the list is exhaustive. This page is the swap, not the grimoire.

Advanced Spell, not a cantrip

Tabletop readers arrive expecting Misty Step, a bonus-action teleport of thirty feet that slots into fifth-edition play without friction. Invoke’s public model draws a different line: cantrips sit on the always-available pad, advanced spells demand a slower commit and then go on cooldown. Fey Switch is listed in the advanced layer, which means it is not a free action you repeat twice in a fight without consequence. The slow-commit mechanic is consistent with how Invoke describes other advanced spells: you pick your moment, you commit, and then you wait.

That is a meaningful design choice. It tells you that Kaatri’s spatial repositioning is tactical, not spammable. You will not be chaining Fey Switch across a dungeon corridor the way you might float through a room on Levitate or punch across distance with Otherworldly Leap. The cooldown after commit means every swap costs something, and that cost shapes when you use it.

How it sits next to other movement options

Misty Step is a short-range teleport that puts Kaatri somewhere she was not. Fey Switch puts Kaatri where a monster is, and puts the monster where Kaatri was. That distinction is the whole spell. Gust of Wind pushes enemies back. Black Tentacles restrains them in place. Fey Switch trades positions with one of them. The combo page treats movement spells as a system: teleport to escape, push to create distance, swap to disorient or to put a monster in a hazard. Fey Switch is the disorient option.

In a Domain of Dread, an unexpected position change is more than tactical. It is psychological. A creature that suddenly stands where its target stood, facing the wrong direction, has lost its bearing for a moment. That is the fantasy Invoke is selling with this spell: not just survival, but control over the geometry of a fight. How to use spells is the tutorial for layering these options. Exploration and combat will ask whether you swap a caster behind a wall into open ground, or a melee brute into a corridor where it cannot reach you.

Dominic Guay told IGN the game wants you to solve problems with spells you may already know from the table, in real time. Fey Switch is a tabletop idea that predates fifth edition — older editions had position-swapping mechanics that Wizards of the Coast has not reprinted in years. Invoke reaching back to that design space, rather than sticking to the safe Misty Step wording, says something about what they want Kaatri’s magic to feel like.

What this page refuses

No cooldown length. No range number. No condition that must be met before the swap triggers. No statement about whether the monster must be willing or hostile. If the official grimoire ever publishes a mana cost, a range, or a duration, that fact belongs here with a source and a date. Until then, the tooltip is the legal text.

Watch the Gamescom and TGA trailers for any shot where Kaatri and a monster visibly exchange places. That animation — the freeze, the swap, the monster suddenly standing in the open — is the tell. If you see her move without the monster trading her spot, the spell may be a simple teleport. If the monster comes with her, the swap is real. Tag accordingly on the spells hub.

The Tasha connection

Kaatri does not cast Fey Switch by innate talent alone. Tasha — the patron voiced by Maggie Robertson at Gen Con 2026 — is the source of at least part of Kaatri’s spell list. The fey naming of this spell ties it to Tasha’s domain, the Domains of Dread where fey and shadow intermingle. Tasha’s Leash is another spell that carries her name. Both belong on the same page of Kaatri’s grimoire. Skev may comment on the design; he is not the caster.

What we still refuse to invent on this page

We will not write a cooldown timer. We will not assign a school of magic. We will not decide whether Fey Switch breaks line of sight, requires the monster to be unaware, or works on undead versus elementals differently. We will not describe a cast animation. We will not guess a mana or resource cost. Notes on spells/fey-switch-XX-0 stay unique to whatever Invoke Studios publishes on the official grimoire. When they update the tooltip, this page updates with it.

Watch how to play for the eight-minute walkthrough. Use the spell combo planner to sketch swap-then-attack sequences without inventing a cooldown value. Read Darkon and the Domains of Dread lore to understand why a warlock in this world would reach for a fey swap in the first place. Browse the builds and spell loadouts when a proper build guide exists for this spell.

Related: spells hub, Witch Bolt, Tasha’s Leash, Misty Step, Raw Magic.