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>I’m intrigued by the fact that Spike refers to Twilight’s moustache spell as ‘growing magic’, and that it’s one of ‘25 tricks’. I assume he refers to them as tricks because Trixie’s magics are also ‘tricks’ later in the episode, but it seems kinda weird to refer to them as that all the same,
>I didn't realize and I don’t think there’s much reference to spells as ‘tricks’ later in the show.
>Also intriguing was that Snails had trouble using his horn to light up the cave, whilst Snips didn’t even try at all. I took away two things from this: first, I guess light is more necessary for finding snails than snipping things, so Snails probably has this ability whilst Snips can’t use lighting magic at all, and secondly, given that Snails is so slow, I wonder if magical ability is tied to intellect. Now, that’s a fairly obvious seeming conclusion
Me too. I can recall fanfiction trying to justify these spells as merely magic "tricks" like a branch of magic.As, later context it seems hard to believe that Twilight at this stage would know only 25! In the episode though it does seem this maybe magic more generally.
To quote Spike:
>I though unicorns were only supposed to have a little nagic that matches there special talents!

And 25 is a lot of spells by pony standards it seems. What counts as a spell, considering that, Rarity created the gold parts of that dress from thin air seemingly. Is that a separate conjuring spell? Or is it some sort of single spell related to her special talent? (which is gems not beatify per see) Or is Rarity a slightly more advanced magic user herself considering we do see her learn and using some other spells relatively casually in the series!?

This is what I mean with possibly making a whole post on the magic in this episode, I am racking my brain! It is fun though.

> maybe her big hat is to hide when she’s using her magic?
I like this theory!

>Anyway I like this episode probably the best so far, first we get to see Twilight do something really cool, and she starts to really properly find her place fitting in with Ponyville
Okay, magic aside, I see we are in similar opinion on this episode! Ponyville feels a little more established here and all the attention is just on the characters.