@PonyPon  
but apparently the opposite isn’t true?  
Trixie is an illusionist– “apparently” is part of the act.

@PonyPon  
Maybe it is weird, but it’s consistent. It doesn’t contradict anything.

@Jarkes  
@Ihhh  
Kinda odd making something from nothing isn’t as hard as those.
 
I mean, Starlight herself said things ‘can’t just disappear’, but apparently the opposite isn’t true?

@Ihhh
 
Yeah, conjuration honestly works well with the whole illusionist angle.
 
@PonyPon
 
It was most likely the latter.

@PonyPon  
It was never established that she couldn’t do the latter. The spells she had trouble with were transfiguration and teleportation.

@Ihhh  
 
It’s either teleporting or conjuration.

@tuypo1  
no we didn’t.

@Jarkes  

 
Twilight makss it incredibly clear that most unicorns can do barely anything
 
@Ihhh  
When they pretend most of it is stuff she only just learnt yes. We saw her do teleportation of objects in boast busters.

@tuypo1  
Trixie does well at magic in her recent episodes, yet somehow that translates to the writers thinking she’s bad at magic?

@tuypo1  
Some rainbows are not only spicy, but have actual physical form; Dash’s house has several rainbowfalls, for example. That spell was no more difficult than picking up a bucket of water and wrapping someone in it, really.

@Eeveeinheat  
Oh oops looks like I missed this at the time. In boast busters she turned a rainbow solid and wraped someone up in it.

New writers seem to think she is. I am glad to see her getting so much attention but I wish they would not retcon her powerlevel.

She isn’t that bad at magic, but Twilight and Starlight are obviously at a much higher level of magic then she can even dream of doing at the present time.

@tuypo1
 
Above average? Sure, and I suppose she did get nerfed a little bit. And like I said, I agree that the “real magic” line was dumb. But some people overexaggerate just how powerful she was.
 
 
@tuypo1
 
That’s just it, though; for all we know, that sort of thing could be pretty easy for an average or above average unicorn to do.

@tuypo1  
What thing with the rainbow?

do people just like to pretend that thing with the rainbow never happened

@Jarkes  

 
that is completly false  
the point was about humility they might not have done a very good job of displaying the moral but it was not hidden
 
its not surprising people try to push trixies powerlevel up though its a natural reaction to everybody trying to push it down she may not be top tier like twilight but she is still well above average.

@Background Pony #AD99  
What Trixie uses in her show are indeed spells, but they are generally simplistic in nature, mainly for the purpose of creating visual effects and illusions. From the very start, she have never been a super-powerful unicorn, and her magic has always been a far cry from high-powered sorcery that Twilight and Starlight can perform.

Didn’t this guy get moonbanned months ago for attacking people that disagreed with him on this and continually ban-evading? How does he keep getting around it?
 
Also, I think the “real magic” line was just poor wording; illusions aren’t necessarily “fake” magic just because they’re illusions. But while she may have been slightly above average before, she was hardly this super-powerful unicorn in her first appearance like what this guy seems to have deluded himself into believing. Heck, the whole point of her first appearance was that she very much WASN’T super-powerful.

@TexasUberAlles  
>she’s barely using any magic at all to make grand bombastic effects  
What effects? Her show was nothing but real spells. The magic she did have a very real effect on the world.  
>uses clever prestidigitation tricks and tiny, highly efficient amounts of magic  
>it’s the equivalent of a Strong Man casually lifting several people over his head like they ain’t nothin’  
I don’t get this comparison. The strong man isn’t using just a tiny bit on his strength and clever tricks to make him look strong, he is that strong, and his strength is what impresses the audience. Just like how Trixie’s magic did the same.

@Dynamic  
i was auctualy refering to the stuff with trixies mom.
 
thats kind of neat if she learnt to port i have not read the comics in a few months (and i am not sure its even worth catching back up)

YEAH YOUR FACE IS BAD AT MAGIC
 
@Background Pony #AD99  
just magic performed on stage  
And yet her audiences are always clearly awesomed by it. There’s a simple and obvious explanation for that, one that’s been explored in plenty of fantasy media set in places where magic is common: she’s barely using any magic at all to make grand bombastic effects, and that impresses the hay out of people who know how much magic it should be taking to accomplish that. A stage magician in a world of casual thaumaturgy uses clever prestidigitation tricks and tiny, highly efficient amounts of magic to put on a grand spectacle that doesn’t resonate very much at all with the thaumic senses of other magic users watching; it’s the equivalent of a Strong Man casually lifting several people over his head like they ain’t nothin’, or a martial artist lightly tapping a huge opponent and sendin’ ‘im spinnin’ across the dojo– skilled technicians doing something so that you have no clue whatsoever how they’re doing it are always entertaining.
 
Starlight is generic and boring, and so is the current show  
Whoever is forcing you to keep watching the show and interacting with its fandom should definitely be reported to the authorities immediately, it’s just terrible to compel someone to participate in something they don’t find fun or worthwhile anymore.

@Background Pony #AD99  

 
If you really want to blow crap up, short of nukes it’s hard to beat aerial bombardment. On the other hoof, even though we have an Air Force base not ten miles away with hundreds of precision strike aircraft, our 4th of July shows are always done by Grucci. Nobody anywhere has ever called in an airstrike instead of fireworks. In fact, even the Air Force base hires pyrotechnics professionals to make explosions for reenactments at airshows rather than blowing crap up themselves in their usual way. Nobody has ever asked Grucci to wipe out a cave in Tora Bora either.
 
The stagehands who build sets on Broadway generally aren’t the same people building houses, nor are the costume designers likely to have collections you can buy at Saks or Target. Dale Earnhardt and Mario Andretti may be very successful on the track, but probably do not know the best routes for a cab to take from the Morris Park section of the Bronx to the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. Nor are you likely to find the dressage riders in the circus out on the range driving cattle between shows.
 
I see no reason “stage magic” should be common trade elementalism or necromancy simply done on stage, either.

@Background Pony #AD99  
Okay. I completely accept that you have an opinion and I cannot debate an opinion.