# Mimic

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> [!infobox]
> ![mimic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/mimic.webp)
> **Type:** Medium monstrosity
> **Alignment:** neutral
> **Challenge:** 2 (450 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 12
> **Hit Points:** 58 (9d8+18)
> **Speed:** 20 ft

## Stat block

Waits as a door or a chest until someone touches it, then holds them fast and bites.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 58 (9d8+18) | 20 ft | 2 | 450 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 (+3) | 12 (+1) | 15 (+2) | 5 (-3) | 13 (+1) | 8 (-1) |

- **Skills:** Stealth +5
- **Immune:** acid
- **Condition immunities:** prone
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 11

### Traits

- **Adhesive (Object Form Only).** The mimic adheres to anything that touches it. A Huge or smaller creature adhered to the mimic has the Grappled condition (escape DC 13). Ability checks made to escape this grapple have Disadvantage.

### Actions

- **Bite.** Melee Attack Roll: +5, with Advantage if the target is Grappled by the mimic, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) Piercing damage, or 12 (2d8 + 3) Piercing damage if the target is Grappled by the mimic, plus 4 (1d8) Acid damage.
- **Pseudopod.** Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) Bludgeoning damage plus 4 (1d8) Acid damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Grappled condition (escape DC 13).

### Bonus actions

- **Shape-Shift.** The mimic shape-shifts to resemble a Medium or Small object while retaining its game statistics, or it returns to its true blob form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed.

## Where you meet it

- [Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-upper-level.md): *The door has teeth.*
- [The Drowned Library](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-drowned-library.md): [The Drowned Library](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-drowned-library.md) · *The catalogue desk opens all its drawers at once, and every one of them has teeth. Round the room, two…*
- [The River Ivlis Crossroads](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-river-ivlis-crossroads.md): *The green wagon stands up off its wheels, and two of the trinkets on its hooks open their own small mouths.*