Final Fantasy VII/Magic Materia

The magic materia is green. Usually, it has 3 to 5 levels (stars), and each time the materia gains a level it's possible to use a new spell. There are a few exceptions like Ultima. The first star filled at the beginning and the last star being filled means the materia is mastered, thus depending on the stars the materia can usually have 2 to 4 spells; in Ultima's case, only one.

In the various sections Materia are sorted by the AP necessary to master them. Free locations of materia are highlighted in bold.

Healing materia

Restore

The three Cure spells restore the health points of the target; they are associated to the "Holy" element: if cast on an undead enemy, it will be damaged instead. The Regen spell changes the status, and the status will progressively recover health during battle; this spell has not the "Holy" element.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Cure	5	255	110 + Base	Restore	Yes
	2 500 AP	Cure2	24	255	770 + Base	Restore	Yes
	17 000 AP	Regen	30	255	100%	N/A	Yes
	25 000 AP	Cure3	64	255	2 860 + Base	Restore	Yes
	40 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						750 Gil	210 000 Gil
Locations
Found in Reactor No. 1 Wall Market Costa del Sol (Disc 1) Sector 7 Fort Condor Destroyed Mideel Sector 5 Junon Materia Shop 1

Revive

These two spells will revide a knocked out ally. If linked to a Final Attack materia, the user will be revived automatically whenever he/she is knocked out. Life1 revives the target with minimal HP, while Life2 revives the target with full health. Both spells are Holy-elemental, and will instantly defeat an undead target.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Life	18	100	60%	N/A	Yes
	45 000 AP	Life2	28	100	80% on enemies 100% on party	N/A	Yes
	55 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -02    Vitality: -01    Magic: +02    Magic Def: +01    Max HP: -05%    Max MP: +05%						3 000 Gil	105 000 Gil
Locations
Junon Costa del Sol

Heal

Poisona cures the "poison" status, while Esuna cures all status ailments. Resist prevents any status alteration: i.e. it also prevents the character from losing any current status alteration.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Poisona	3	225	100%	N/A	Yes
	12 000 AP	Esuna	15	225	100%	N/A	Yes
	52 000 AP	Resist	120	225	100%	N/A	Yes
	60 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						1 000 Gil	105 000 Gil
Locations
Kalm Gongaga Junon Materia Shop 1 Costa del Sol (Disc 1)

Fullcure

The Fullcure spell does exactly what the name says: it is a stronger version of "Cure3".

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP
	3 000 AP	Fullcure	99	255	Tgt. Max HP	Restore	No
	100 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -04    Vitality: -02    Magic: +04    Magic Def: +02    Max HP: -10%    Max MP: +10%						N/A	1 Gil
Locations
Found in the back room of a shop in Cosmo Canyon, in Disc 2 or later.

Support materia

Exit

The Escape spells has limited use: it allows the party to flee a battle, if the player made the mistake of entering an area infested by strong enemies without saving the game beforehand. It doesn't allow the party to escape from boss battles.

Remove is an attack spell that instantly defeats all enemies, including undead. The drawback is that the enemy's Gil are removed, too (the party will gain no Gil from the battle).

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Escape	16	110	N/A	N/A	No
	10 000 AP	Remove	99	110	100%	N/A	No
	30 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						10 000 Gil	700 000 Gil
Locations
Mideel, Rocket Town

Time

Haste doubles the filling speed of the turn gauge of the target. Slow is its converse: it slows down the target. If Haste is cast on all heroes and Slow is cast on all opponents, the party will attack many times more than the enemies.

Stop prevents enemies from acting, until it wears off.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Haste	18	Auto	100%	N/A	Yes
	8 000 AP	Slow	20	Auto	100%	N/A	Yes
	20 000 AP	Stop	34	Auto	60%	N/A	Yes
	42 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -02    Vitality: -01    Magic: +02    Magic Def: +01    Max HP: -05%    Max MP: +05%						6 000 Gil	420 000 Gil
Locations
Gongaga Rocket Town

Barrier

Barrier and Magic Barrier cut by half, respectively, physical and magical damage suffered by the target. Wall grants both statuses at once.

Reflect bounces back most spells to the caster. It is great to cast it on all the party during a battle against a strong magic user: the enemy will defeat itself!

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Barrier	16	Auto	N/A	N/A	Yes
	5 000 AP	MBarrier	24	Auto	N/A	N/A	Yes
	15 000 AP	Reflect	30	Auto	N/A	N/A	No
	30 000 AP	Wall	58	Auto	N/A	N/A	Yes
	45 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -02    Vitality: -01    Magic: +02    Magic Def: +01    Max HP: -05%    Max MP: +05%						10 000 Gil	600 000 Gil
Locations
Rocket Town

Shield

The Shield status is an upgrade to the "Wall" spell above: it prevents all physical damage and absorbs all elemental damage. The target will still suffer non-elemental magic damage, anyway.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP
	10 000 AP	Shield	180	Auto	100%	N/A	Yes
	100 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -04    Vitality: -02    Magic: +04    Magic Def: +02    Max HP: -10%    Max MP: +10%						N/A	1 Gil
Locations
Found on the left, then upper path in the Northern Crater.

Debuff materia

Seal

Sleepel has a weaker effect than "Stop" (#Time): it wears off if the target is attacked physically. Silence prevents the target from casting any spell.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Sleepel	8	100	72%	N/A	Yes
	10 000 AP	Silence	24	100	60%	N/A	Yes
	20 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						3 000 Gil	210 000 Gil
Locations
Junon Materia Shop 1 Costa del Sol (Disc 1)

Transform

This materia inflicts or cures the said statuses, Mini and Toad. When a character or enemy is miniaturized, his/her physical attacks will deal 1 damage only; when a character or enemy is turned into a toad, not only his/her physical attacks deal 1 damage, but also he/she cannot use magic (except for the Toad spell).

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Mini	10	100	72% with normal Tgt. 100% with small Tgt.	N/A	Yes
	8 000 AP	Toad	14	100	72% with normal Tgt. 100% with frog Tgt.	N/A	Yes
	24 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						5 000 Gil	350 000 Gil
Locations
Equipped with Cait Sith Cosmo Canyon North Corel Mideel Gongaga

Mystify

An enemy affected by the Confu spell will attack random targets, including itself and its allies.

Berserk can be cast on either enemies or allies. When cast on enemies, it has an effect similar to "Silence" (#Seal). When cast on the allies, they will fight automatically without any need to input commands from the menu; this is very useful when fighting weaker enemies or when grinding large amounts of Gil and/or experience points.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Confu	18	100	60%	N/A	Yes
	12 000 AP	Berserk	28	100	80% on enemies 100% on party	N/A	Yes
	25 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						5 000 Gil	420 000 Gil
Locations
Gongaga Cosmo Canyon

Destruct

De-Barrier removes four statuses: Barrier, Magic-Barrier, Reflect and Shield. De-Spell removes the previous four and six more statuses: death force (that prevents instant-death), Haste, Slow and Stop, Regen and Resist. Death is an attack spell that inflicts instant death (it is ineffective on undead targets and heals them to full health).

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	DeBarrier	12	255	100%	N/A	No
	6 000 AP	DeSpell	20	255	100%	N/A	No
	10 000 AP	Death	30	100	44%	N/A	Yes
	45 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -02    Vitality: -01    Magic: +02    Magic Def: +01    Max HP: -05%    Max MP: +05%						9 000 Gil	630 000 Gil
Locations
Found in Shinra Mansion Fort Condor (Disc 2) Mideel

Attack materia

Base magic is computed by multiplying 6 times (your level + your MP). For example, a level 20 character with 30 MP has base magic damage of 300 (6 × (20 + 30)). To find the amount of damage you'll do with a given spell, use the multiplier given with your base magic damage. Using the previous example, if the character cast Comet, he would do 1 500 damage (300 × 5).

Pairing magic with an All materia drops the damage done to 67% (2/3rds) and using Quadra Magic drops it to 50% damage.

Lightning

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Bolt	4	100	0.5 × Base	Lightning	Yes
	2 000 AP	Bolt2	22	100	1.25 × Base	Lightning	Yes
	18 000 AP	Bolt3	52	100	4 × Base	Lightning	Yes
	35 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						600 Gil	42 000 Gil
Locations
Equipped with Cloud Wall Market Costa del Sol Sector 7 Fort Condor Destroyed Mideel Sector 5 Junon Materia Shop 2

Ice

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Ice	4	100	0.5 × Base	Ice	Yes
	2 000 AP	Ice2	22	100	1.25 × Base	Ice	Yes
	18 000 AP	Ice3	52	100	4 × Base	Ice	Yes
	35 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						600 Gil	42 000 Gil
Locations
Equipped with Cloud Wall Market Costa del Sol Sector 7 Fort Condor Destroyed Mideel Sector 5 Junon Materia Shop 2

Fire

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Fire	4	100	0.5 × Base	Fire	Yes
	2 000 AP	Fire2	22	100	1.25 × Base	Fire	Yes
	18 000 AP	Fire3	52	100	4 × Base	Fire	Yes
	35 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						600 Gil	42 000 Gil
Locations
Equipped with Red XIII Wall Market Costa del Sol Sector 7 Fort Condor Destroyed Mideel Sector 5 Junon Materia Shop 2

Poison

These spells not only deal damage, but they may also inflict the Poison status to the targets. A poisoned character will progressively lose HP.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Bio	8	100	0.625 × Base 48%	Poison	Yes
	5 000 AP	Bio2	36	100	1.3125 × Base 48%	Poison	Yes
	20 000 AP	Bio3	80	100	4.25 × Base 72%	Poison	Yes
	38 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						1 500 Gil	105 000 Gil
Locations
Found in Shinra Headquarters (floor 67) Costa del Sol (Disc 2) Kalm Junon Materia Shop 2

Earth

Earth spells are ineffective on flying enemies.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Quake	6	100	0.6875 × Base	Earth	Yes
	6 000 AP	Quake2	28	100	1.5 × Base	Earth	Yes
	22 000 AP	Quake3	68	100	4 375 + Base	Earth	Yes
	40 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						1 500 Gil	105 000 Gil
Locations
Kalm Shop Junon Materia Shop 2 Costa del Sol Materia Shop (Disc 2 & 3)

Gravity

The Demi spell drop the target's health to a specific percentage of the maximum: Demi drops health down to 75%, Demi2 drops it to 50%, Demi3 drops it to 25%. If the target was already damaged beyond 75%/50%/25% of its maximum HP, the corresponding demi spell will deal no further damage. For this reason, casting a gravity spell twice on the same target has no effect.

If a target is weak against gravity, Demi2 and Demi3 will instantly defeat him/her.

Most bosses are nearly immune to Gravity element. Effective against Emerald Weapon when used with W-Magic or Quadra Magic.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Demi	14	75	Tgt. HP / 4	Gravity	No
	10 000 AP	Demi2	33	75	Tgt. HP / 2	Gravity	No
	20 000 AP	Demi3	48	75	Tgt. HP * 3 / 4	Gravity	No
	40 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -01    Vitality: -00    Magic: +01    Magic Def: +00    Max HP: -02%    Max MP: +02%						6 000 Gil	560 000 Gil
Locations
Found in Cave of the Gi after Gi Nattack fight Costa del Sol (Disc 2) Mideel

Comet

Comet and Comet2 inflict non-elemental damage to either one or all enemies, respectively. The latter also hits multiple times.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Comet	70	100	5 × Base	N/A	No
	12 000 AP	Comet2	110	100	1.875 × Base	N/A	No
	60 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -02    Vitality: -01    Magic: +02    Magic Def: +01    Max HP: -05%    Max MP: +05%						N/A	1 400 000 Gil
Locations
Found on the top floor of a house in the northern section of the Forgotten Capital.

Contain

Freeze deals ice damage and has a 25% chance to inflict "stop". Break deals earth damage and has a 12.5% chance of petrify the target (instant defeat). Tornado deals wind damage and has a 12.5% chance to inflict "confusion". Flare is probably the less useful of the four: it deals fire damage, but no status ailment at all.

Note that pairing Contain with "All" has no effect.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP	Freeze	82	100	5.937 × Base	Ice	Yes
	5 000 AP	Break	86	100	6.25 × Base	Earth	Yes
	10 000 AP	Tornado	90	100	6.5625 × Base	Wind	Yes
	15 000 AP	Flare	100	100	7.1875 × Base	Fire	Yes
	60 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -04    Vitality: -02    Magic: +04    Magic Def: +02    Max HP: -10%    Max MP: +10%						N/A	1 Gil
Locations
Can be obtained from Mideel. Give Mimett Greens to the small white Chocobo, then scratch it behind the ears.

Ultima

The Ultima spell is the ultimate attack magic: it deals massive non-elemental damage to all enemies.

Growth		Spell	MP Cost	Attack %	Power	Element	Reflect
	0 AP
	5 000 AP	Ultima	130	100	5.5625 × Base	N/A	No
	100 000 AP
Status Effects						Shop Cost	Master Value
Strength: -04    Vitality: -02    Magic: +04    Magic Def: +02    Max HP: -10%    Max MP: +10%						0 / 50 000 Gil	1 Gil
Locations
Free for stopping the materia train in Corel in Disc 2. If you fail to stop the train, it can be bought in Corel.

Spells effect list

• Field spells: spells that can also be used outside battle.
• Support spells: battle spells that target the allies.
• Debuff spells: battle spells that target the enemies but deal no damage.
• Attack spells: battle spells that deal damage or instantly kill the enemies.

Materia	Spell(s)	Type	Effect
Restore	Cure/Cure2/Cure3	Field/support	Restores HP
Revive	Life	Field/support	Cures "death" status
Revive	Life2	Field/support	Cures "death" status and fully restores HP
Heal	Poisona	Field/support	Cures "poison" status
Heal	Esuna	Field/support	Cures most status ailments
Restore	Regen	Support	Causes "regenerate" status, that restores HP gradually
Heal	Resist	Support	Causes "resist" status, that prevents status ailments
Fullcure	Fullcure	Support	Restores HP completely
Exit	Escape	Support	Party escapes from battle
Time	Haste	Support	Increases speed
Barrier	Barrier	Support	Increases defense
Barrier	MBarrier	Support	Increases magic defense
Barrier	Reflect	Support	Causes "reflect" status, that reflects spells back at caster
Barrier	Wall	Support	Increases elemental protection
Shield	Shield	Support	All four effects of "Barrier" materia
Mystify	Berserk	Support/debuff	Causes "berserk", i.e. target will always attack physically but cannot be given commands
Transform	Mini	Support/debuff	Cures or inflicts "mini" status, that reduces physical attributes
Transform	Toad	Support/debuff	Cures or inflicts "toad" status, that reduces all attributes and negates magic
Time	Slow	Debuff	Decreases speed
Time	Stop	Debuff	Inflicts "stop"
Seal	Sleepel	Debuff	Inflicts "sleep", i.e. target cannot act
Seal	Silence	Debuff	Inflicts "silence", i.e. target cannot use magic
Mystify	Confu	Debuff	Inflicts "confusion", i.e. target will attack his allies
Destruct	DeBarrier	Debuff	Removes barriers
Destruct	DeSpell	Debuff	Removes positive statuses
Exit	Remove	Attack	Instant-death attack
Destruct	Death	Attack	Instant-death attack
Lightning	Bolt/Bolt2/Bolt3	Attack	Element: lightning
Ice	Ice/Ice2/Ice3	Attack	Element: ice
Fire	Fire/Fire2/Fire3	Attack	Element: fire
Poison	Bio/Bio2/Bio3	Attack	Element: poison; inflicts "poison" status
Earth	Quake/Quake2/Quake3	Attack	Element: earth
Gravity	Demi/Demi2/Demi3	Attack	Element: gravity
Comet	Comet/Comet2	Attack	Non-elemental
Contain	Freeze	Attack	Element: ice; inflicts "stop" status
Contain	Break	Attack	Element: earth; instant-death (petrify)
Contain	Tornado	Attack	Element: wind; inflicts "confusion" status
Contain	Flare	Attack	Element: fire
Ultima	Ultima	Attack	Non-elemental

Master Magic

The Master Magic materia basically gives you all the abilities of all the magic materias. It can be gotten either by defeating Emerald WEAPON and trading in the Earth Harp at Kalm, or by mastering all the magic materias and trading them for the Master Magic materia at Cosmo Canyon (if you managed to save that Huge materia anyway). The Master Magic materia can be linked to an "All" or a "Quadra Magic" materia to give all spells the effect of the support materia.

Materia	AP to master
Restore	40000
Revive	55000
Heal	60000
Fullcure	100000
Exit	30000
Time	42000
Barrier	45000
Shield	100000
Seal	20000
Mystify	25000
Transform	24000
Destruct	45000
Lightning	35000
Ice	35000
Fire	35000
Poison	38000
Earth	40000
Gravity	40000
Comet	60000
Contain	60000
Ultima	100000
Total	1029000

Materia locations

For players who want to master every materia, it may be useful to know how early any green materia can be obtained:

Disc 1, part 1 (Midgar):

• Lightning (on Cloud)
• Ice (on Cloud)
• Restore (Reactor N.1)
• Fire (shop in Sector 7, or free on Red XIII)
• [All (Beginner's Hall, Sector 7)]
• Poison (floor 67, Shinra H.Q.)

Disc 1, part 2 (land travels):

• Heal (shop, Kalm)
• Earth (shop, Kalm)
• Seal (shop, Junon)
• Transform (train tracks, North Corel)
• Revive (shop, Costa Del Sol)
• Time (shops after visiting Gongaga)
• Mystify (shops after visiting Gongaga)
• Gravity (cave of the Gi, Cosmo Canyon)
• Destruct (Shinra Mansion, Nibelheim)
• Exit (shops after visiting Rocket Town)
• Barrier (shops after visiting Rocket Town)

Disc 1, part 3 (sea travels):

• Comet (house, Forgotten Capital)

Disc 2:

• Fullcure (revisit Cosmo Canyon)
• Contain (White Chocobo, Mideel)
• Ultima (storyline, North Corel)

Disc 3:

• Shield (Northern Crater)
• [W-magic (Northern Crater)]

The blue All materia and the yellow W-magic materia are included in this list because they only affect green Magic materia.