Bad Magic Systems 

I came here legitimately seeking counsel on magic systems. Needless to say I was looking for copper and found gold

Aligator magic is commonly reffered to as Gatorade

"How can you have shadowland without shadow?" It sounds similar to how we have cargo but it was huge ass boats instead of cars.

Honestly mtg's magic system is more like a particularly unhinged political alignment chart than anything else

Curse me for thinking this would be real advice

“What the fuck is alligator magic?” *Florida man appeared*

In Harry Potter it's actually stated canonically that you can perform magic without a wand, but most wizards use wands because it's much easier. Harry Potter, for example, didn't have a wand in many scenes where he did magic, such as when he made the glass vanish from existence or when he inflated his aunt into a balloon and made her fly off into space and suffocate from the lack of oxygen

I don't know who wrote Football but they really need a proofreader cuz that magic system is all over the place

3:34 Fighting magic is actually super common in Asian fantasy genres like Murim and Wuxia.

Hey, some of us don't believe in the earth! There are dozens of us!

I have an idea for a magic system I'm making for my manga inspired comic series, its really complicated but basically you control this substance called ancestral energy which centers around the fact that everything in existence had a previous state of being and how it builds up over time. People who use it are called sorcery casters and the spells they use are called miracles. It also has like three main elements those being nature, mysticism and the cosmos. Nature is basically natural elements like fire, water and animals, mysticism is basically bringing man made things fictional or otherwise into reality like for example summoning a train or a dragon and cosmos centers on space and time making portals and is basically the most over powered of the three. They all come from these three chakra like cores in your body, nature is in the physical core located in the stomach and symbolic of our literal bodily connection with the planet, mysticism is located in the spiritual core which is in the heart and symbolic of mankinds religious and philosophical desires and inventions and cosmos is located in the mental core in the head and symbolic of us thinking about what our place is in the universe and our existential questions and anxieties outside of the world we know. I think its a pretty cool idea and idk if anyone has used this concept before, perhaps I'm the first.

You managed to offend me and make me laugh all at the same time

I hate the "darkness" element in a lot of fiction. Because its always got some of the weirdest shit featured in and none of of it actually relates to darkness. Ironically it also seems like the actual magic relating to darkness is so underused in their own "element" compared to random shit like poison and blood manipulation that it's hardly "darkness" at all. At that point it's just "evil shit we threw together because we're lazy" It's generally a pretty good gauge of a power system along with how they use pyromancy.

"I ain't never heard of no Earth _deniers."_ Wait... wait a second...

I think drugs would be a great magic system. Casting these spells would be like taking all the drugs.

Epic missed opportunity to put crickets in the pause after Bug magic. ;)

RU-vid has the worst magic system. I mean, what even is the point of the subscribe spell if it doesn’t really do anything without the notification bell spell? What does the dislike spell even do after the nerf? And don’t get me started on how they removed the ability to read spellbooks from oldest to newest.

writer: here's my elemental magic syst- me: *falls asleep*

“Fairy? Oh come on that’s offensive” I’m freakin dead bro.

I can link images of alligator magic but they're probably too NSFW for this place.

Came from reddit and expected a un-enthusiastic narrator with crappy editing. boi was i wrong. Cheers mate! good luck with everything.

Water + earth = mud. Titans are mud.

Man, your content may be underrated but it's entertaining as hell, you got a new subscriber 😄

My magic system will involve primarily calling aid from and making deals with spirits, though only for elemental spells and powerful effects. Using raw magical energy is definitely plausible but is more similar to psionics than what we would see as magic.

I just discovered this channel, and boy is this good.

God I love your humour 😂 I hope you continue doing this!

I lost it at alligator magic.

Oh I get it's Satyre

Free idea: a parody fantasy where a cynic and an exorcist arguing get isekai'ed . In the d&d world they land in the cynic is a powerful antimage that cancels any spell with his lack of faith, and the exorcist instakills vampires by chanting and holding up his cross because vampires are technically demonically possessed corpses.

Jesus is just built different.

i think this is one of the funniest video’s i’ve ever seen, came across while searching for vancian magic. seriously underrated

D'Vorah must be the queen and goddess of bug magic. She invoked the insect spirits and they upgraded her physical body. She casted so many bug spells that she can now do very buggy things without actually doing her rituals.

bug magic is that thing in elden ring where you get that black bar and then thorny branches made of flies burst out of your chest. they call it "deathblight" but its clearly bug magic

Oh lookie! A hidden gem!

“Except for football” hit me like an eldritch blast

Late comment but I've been planning on doing my own fantasy themed stories and one thing I wanted to figure out was the magic system and how it worked. So the magic system I came up with followed the theme of Nature. The nature of the planet, the nature of its people, the spiritual nature of things, etc. I made three forms of magic that embody this sort of thing which is Physical, Mental and Spiritual. Physical magic refers to the chemistry, biology and physics of the world and people itself, such as creating a ball of fire using friction in the air, using gravity and earth magic to get a chunk of rock to float in the air and launch it, or using water magic to physically control someone (which makes sense considering our bodies are 90% water). Mental magic touches more onto the Sci-Fi side of things but it's mainly about the mental and emotional stuff. For instance if one were to consider the planet itself as a living being, then one can assume natural occurrences such as volcanoes representing it's rage, rain as sadness, or plants growing being happiness. The people side of things (both your own and others) could be a third sense, psychonesis, brainwashing, emotional manipulation, foresight, etc. (I.e. detecting where objects or people are with your mind or controlling someone's emotions like giving them a confidence boost, calming them down or intentionally pissing them off, or see the future). Spiritual magic refers to the spiritual and cosmic side of things such as Light and Darkness (in the traditional good and evil sense), astral projection, communicating with ghosts, time and space manipulation, or even bringing someone back from the dead. Weaknesses and long time effects was also something I had to consider so I made it so that the effectiveness depends on the caster's wellbeing so physical magic for instance will be more powerful if the caster is more fit and healthy but weaker when they aren't. Such is the case for Mental magic which is the caster's mental well-being and Spiritual being on how strong their spirit is. Plus I ask added weaknesses based on external factors such as you can't use earth based magic if their is no earth in the area you're in, nor can you manipulate emotions if said user either has a strong will or the inability to feel anything. The last bit was long term effects so I can up with Magic Sickness which is caused by over-excessive magic and also depends on the type used so Physical magic results in the caster becoming fragile, weaker and more ill (to the point of throwing up blood), Mental magic can drive the user insane or even lobotomize them whilst spiritual magic affects their spirit which can either kill them (if they resurrected someone), corrupt them or lose their connection to the spirit world entirely. It's a work in progress and tons of fleshing out needs to be done such as it's history, how spells are casted, etc. But yeah, thats the magic system I'm planning on doing. (EDIT: Did some changes but I separated the time/space, light and dark magic from Spiritual and put it into its own school being Cosmic (Based on the Cosmic forces of our world so time and space concepts and light/dark not in the physical sense but cosmic sense, along with adding a 5th school being Pure Magic, aka Energy Manipulation, essentially manipulating energy to ones body, mind or soul. Also added a 6th hidden school called True Magic, normal magic still follows the rules of physics whilst True Magic is essentially the ability to change reality altogether but takes an extremely long time to do, so long that its outright impossible to accomplish within a regular lifespan and in my universe only one character was able to accomplish that due to being immortal).

Mtg magic system has (almost) nothing to do with the elements. The colors represent philosophies. Red is aggression/passion, blue is knowledge/wisdom, green is natural order, white is law & order, black is typically selfishness/power at any cost. There are mages who do use elemental magic where they very roughly correspond to the colors you would expect. But the color system represents how those colors function in the card game itself. It’s much deeper & more interesting than “3 elements plus angels & skeletons”.

you know for just a second i thought this is gonna be a se4rious video about magic systems XD

"Who the fuck does Fighting magic?" (From the corner starts music) "Sono chi no sadame..."

So you've probably heard this, but in Harry Potter wandless magic doesn't take a particularly powerful wizard to do, technically anyone can do it, the issue is the wand acts as a focus and gives a spell direction, Harry himself has cast spells without a wand, he just had very little control. The guy stirring his tea is doing something relatively small so he probably doesn't require a wand to focus his magic to simply move a spoon in a cup.

1:18 king James, *proceed to show bishop of Rome, who is polar oposite of king James*

I need more videos like this in my life. Look at me talking as if I have a life.

I suddenly really want to write something about bug magic

Pokemon football would actually be cool. Players throw a helmet from their collected team list, and out jumps the icon/mascot/motif thing. "Oh NO! He's played the Patriots! With a cheat buff!"

"C'mon guys, "Fel"? Fel down what, the stairs? You missed an L, there's only one L" My God that sent my sides to the moon 🤣🤣

Wait till he hears about rpg systems as the magic system of a novel.

I expected something serious from this video. Hear me out, I am not big on memes and le funny content, but boy was this video a treat. I loved it. Thanks for the good laugh :) I had a terrible nightmare today and I really needed it.

Me: *About to boast about the magic system i made* Him: When your wizard started talking some weird ass spell that are just the four elements with some lame arbituary spiritual element going out in there just to make it look original, thats the minute im putting your book down Me: Okay nevermind😅

Who else found this through reddit?

Im so mad at how hilarious this is hahahahah. Even the blasphemy 💀💀💀

Your editing is absolutely insane!

fighting magic is throwing a hadouken

I Appreciate either magic sytems that are complex but well explained and established while still being fun or magic systems where the author clearly went "fuck it" and just decided to do something fun. Both ends of the extreme can work well depending on the story, but the bad ones get caught somewhere between the middle, typically leaning more towards the complex side but with glaring plot holes.

"Who the fuck does Fighting Magic?" Goku. Are you gonna tell me Dragonball isn't Fighting Magic?

Funny enough, Pokemon's lore is loosely based off of Alchemy

I just realized halway through that this video was a parody of Lily Orchard's content

I WILL BE THE ONE TO MAKE BUG MAGIC'S POTENTIAL BECOME REALIZED

I came looking for real advice, I left smiling and not giving an F about my original goal. You sir deserve a like 🤣

naruto has bug magicians btw!

After the video ended, I was recommended a video on “The Best Magic Systems”

That's why real life is the best magic system,The Four fundamental(Gravity,Electromagnetism,Weak force,strong force).and we Didn't know that probably in the future this system' Will change dramatically

A bug pokemon is just a bug pokemon.

Underneath the sarcasm is love and hate. Lol

bug magic seems like a cool idea to me

At first I thought it was serious, then I thought it was a joke, but now see it was serious

Warcraft actually has really good magic lore bones to work with.

0:55 bro the spoon is his wand wtf are you on about?

"WHAT THE FUCK IS ALLIGATOR MAGIC?!" Said in a Fullmetal Jacket ripoff voice has to be one of the best lines I've ever heard!

2:41 Actually, I am an earth denier. We all exist in our minds. You all are just created by my brain, and so is the earth. I have become self aware and am planning to overthrow myself.

I respect the video game Vampire Survivors for having "milk magic". Definitely something I never seen before

I'm subbing for so many reason 🤣🤣 I gasped at the titanic bit...that was dark.

3:54 Magic really means it's something that science has no explanation for yet, so psychic does fit in both Fantasy and Sci Fi.

This guy is just talking

"if i put my dead grandmother in tornado she aint comeback alive" im ded lmfao

Dude you‘re a genius.

Man, imagine using Cowboy magic. You can go all Red Dead Redemption in people's business

Wait till bro hears about haki and df, nen and cursed energy

Yeah I get magic is such a Cornerstone in fantasy but 90% of the time it's just too overpowered, so much of a double-edged sword I think most author should just skip it

The thing about Harry Potter is that while focusing is important and wands definitely help, wands are not mandatory, they just make it easier and are good for beginners, and for a spell as trivial as what he's doing he might not need to maintain eye contact

"Why is the emerald dream half water." Because they pee in their sleep?

I dunno what I just watched but it changed my life.

Pokemon type system is not even magic. Sometimes its similar but not always

This was a great watch. Subbed.

This man has Hater Magic😂

Why is this the first video to pop up when I type “mage errant” in the search bar?

A sports team based magic system sounds cool ngl

we need more people talking about un original creatures and or fictional biology. I see so many "this thing is a tall skinny pale white humanoid that eats your skin" its just the Slenderman trope with different twists, we haven enough skinless humanoids and hell hellhounds already. We need more original fictional creatures instead of just dragons with magic balls.

Pretty sure those aren't magic types but Pokemon types.

I’m an Earth denier ✋🏾😂😂

you know, this was better than what i expected (real advice on what not to do) Kinda achieved its goal tho, i know not to make aligator magic now

Wild magic 5e is a good example of bad magic system

Have no idea what this was, but it was funny.

Soon as i saw the the Warcraft Magic System Map appear i was Lolling! I played for years and didnt see the Magic System til i got the Lore book last year. It is bonkers!

0:52 Also Harry making an entire glass panel disappear as an 11 year old, with no wand, cause he was angy.

Eh, my favorite magic system is still that of Mother of Learning, the best and most complex magic system I've ever seen. And even the whole story barely uncover that much of the world and the system

I have this magic system where the wizards can only use magic where they manipulate objects in nature or that come from nature. So they can take a torch and manipulate the fire to like wrap around a person or manipulate wooden wheels to morph into a different structure.

I'm writing a power system based in different "own" realities/perception of the world. I would like some opinions about it.

1:50 Where is this one from?

The first one is the only one that is actually a magic system🤣🤣

I just wanna learn the different applications of magic and turn it into a system. With 20 stages. So far i have... 15 of them. Channelling: the ability to take in or push out magic. The most basic and innate ability everyone gets before ever learning magic. The rest all topics that make for level 2 but I haven't organized them in a way that seems like the most natural progression. Runes/glyphs: the user can now read and write magical symbols, this can be used to make spells or just send letters that only some would understand (in my world some people skip this stage) Projectile: the user can now fire magic in a way that actually does something. Basically the most natural progression of channeling Shapes: the user can change the shape of projectiles or other magical objects. This can be used to make a bullet shaped blast or a prism shaped projectile etc. Basically instead of a default tear drop shape or beam you can now make drills or needles. Etc.