Control Sand

You choose an area of sand that you can see within range and that fits within a 5-foot cube. You manipulate it in one of the following ways:

• You can instantaneously excavate the sand, moving it along the ground and depositing it up to 5 feet away. This movement doesn’t have enough force to cause damage.

• You cause shapes to appear on the sand, spelling out words, creating images, or shaping patterns. You can also cause it to form into simple shapes and animate in your direction. This change lasts for 1 hour.

• If the sand you target is on the ground, you cause it to become difficult terrain. Alternatively, you can cause the ground to become normal terrain if it is already difficult terrain. This change lasts for 1 hour.

• You cause the sand to form the shape of a small object then harden it into sandstone. You may use this to form simple weapons and attack with them as part of the same action. Attacking with a sandstone weapon causes it to shatter after the attack. 

This spell's area increases by 5 feet feet when you reach 5th level (10-foot cube), 11th level (15-foot cube), and 17th level (20-foot cube). 

If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have no more than two of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.