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Benefit

When you activate a wand, you can expend a spell slot instead of using a charge. The spell slot must be one you have not used for the day, though you can lose a prepared spell to emulate a wand charge (but you cannot lose prepared spells from a specialty school). The spell slot expended must be equal to or higher in level than the spell stored in the wand (including any level-increasing metamagic enhancements).