# Vicious Mockery > [!info] Spell Details > | | | > |---|---| > | **Level** | Cantrip | > | **School** | [[Enchantment]] | > | **Casting Time** | 1 Action | > | **Range** | 60 feet | > | **Components** | V | > | **Duration** | Instantaneous | > | **Classes** | Bard | --- ## Description You unleash a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at a creature you can see within range. If the target can hear you (though it need not understand you), it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take **1d4 psychic damage** and have disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn. --- ## Cantrip Scaling This spell's damage increases by **1d4** when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).