Powder of magical detection

Powder of magical detection was a type of magical powder.

Description
This powder was extremely fine and consisted of minute, crystalline granules. They typically came in packets that contained around eleven to twenty pinches of the powder.

Powers
Whenever a mere pinch of this crystalline powder made contact with a magical item, regardless of its size, it would spark and flash with a prismatic array of colors. Users could not discern from the powder the nature or intensity of an item's enchantment, only that the item in question was magical.

Availability

 * The Diviner's Guild of Ravens Bluff was known to sell powder of magic detection for around 4,650 gp in the 14 century DR.