uncommon

Quicksand

The field turns to soup and swallows

magic (MA x Faith, mitigated by MDEF)

Job: Geomancer
MP cost: 16
Charge: 3 CT — the caster is out of the turn order until it lands
Power: 20
Range: 4 tiles
Area: diamond r1
Targets: anyone in the area
Accuracy: 100%
JP to learn: 280
Element: earth

Rolling it

Nothing is guaranteed. At the start of each battle a unit's primary job rolls every ability it knows, one at a time.

As your primary job: 50%
As a sub-job draw: 30% of the bucket

Roughly one unit in 150 skips the roll entirely and fields its whole catalogue. If a unit rolls nothing at all, it is granted its cheapest ability rather than being sent out empty-handed.