This staff can be wielded as a magic quarterstaff that grants a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. While you hold it, you gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls.

The staff has 50 charges for the following properties. It regains 4d6 + 2 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 20, the staff regains 1d12 + 1 charges. On a 1 the staff crumbles to dust and a death knight appears that is hostile towards you. 

Spell Absorption. While holding the staff, you have advantage on saving throws against spells. In addition, you can use your reaction when another creature casts a spell that targets only you. If you do, the staff absorbs the magic of the spell, canceling its effect and gaining a number of charges equal to the absorbed spell's level. However, if doing so brings the staff's total number of charges above 50, the staff explodes as if you activated its death strike (see below).

Spells. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend some of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it, using your spell save DC and spellcasting ability: raise dead (5 charges), dispel magic (3 charges), finger of death (7 charges), ray of enfeeblement (2 charges), blight (4 charges), invisibility (2 charges), knock (2 charges), resurrection (7 charges), contagion (5 charges), vampiric touch (7th-level version, 7 charges), telekinesis (5 charges), speak with dead (3 charges), web (2 charges), or circle of death (6 charges), create undead (6 charges), revivify (3 charges), harm (6 charges), true resurrection (9 charges).

You can also use an action to cast one of the following spells from the staff without using any charges: arcane lock, detect magic, light, mage hand, or protection from evil and good, chill touch, spare the dying.

Death Strike. You can use an action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface, performing a death strike. The staff is destroyed and releases its remaining magic in an explosion that expands to fill a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on it.

You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to Shadowfell, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid the effect, you take necrotic damage equal to 16 × the number of charges in the staff. Every other creature in the area must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes an amount of damage based on how far away it is from the point of origin, as shown in the following table. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage.

Notes: Bonus: Magic, Bonus: Spell Attacks, Cleric, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard that knows at least one necromancy spell, Damage, Control, Detection, Combat, Deception, Warding