- "You're a singular multidimensional messiah. You're going to rewrite the rules of magic and all the implications of that decision are going to echo forward and backward across all realities. It's no biggie."
- ― Loki describing Wiccan's future self (Young Avengers)
The ability to transcend the rules of magic. Combination of Magic and Causality Manipulation.
Also Called
- Magical Causality
- Meta Magic
Capabilities
Users are practitioners of the Magical Powers who possess the uncanny ability to transcend the very rules under which they operate. They may be exceptions within the rules, or simply the one making them. This allows them to perform many super-supernatural feats by altering or ignoring the conditions and limitations of magical systems.
Applications
- Adaptive Magic
- Learn or replicate any form of magic.
- Combine radically different spells/sources.
- Operate normally in non-magical contexts.
- Customize the properties of magical items.
- Customize the properties of spells.
- Manipulate magical energy.
- Create new magical schools/systems.
- Create new spells.
- Penetrate any/every form of blocker supernatural or otherwise.
- Remove spells' requirements/limitations.
- Impervious or highly resistant to Anti-Magic.
- Immune to detrimental side-effects.
- Remove the cost of magical abilities.
- Ignore/bypass magical defenses.
- Harness and Balance vast cosmological and esoteric forces.
- Alternate magical forces to unify ancient chaotic energies without danger.
Associations
- Almighty Magic
- Mystic Derivation
- Omni-Magic
- Subjective Reality
- Transcendent Mage Physiology
- Virtual Warping
Limitations
- The power only applies to magic itself, so users may still need to rely on spells.
Known Users
Comics
- Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
- Wiccan (Marvel Comics)
Literature
- Coin the Sourcerer (Discworld)
- Argeddion (Skulduggery Pleasant)
- Darquesse (Skulduggery Pleasant)
Live Action TV
- Amara (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
- Jafar (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
- King Nikolaus (Witches of East End)
Manga/Anime
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum (A Certain Magical Index)
- Rufus Lore (Fairy Tail)
- Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail)
- Zeref Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
- Jack Rakan (Negima)
- Lei Magnus (Slayers)
- Zaha Torte (Sorcerer Hunters); via the Astral Grid
- Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
- Ruin Iskar (UQ Holder)
Tabletop Games
- Mystra (Dungeons & Dragons)
TCG
- Imaskari (Forgotten Realms)
- Planeswalkers (Magic: The Gathering)
Video Games
- Grand Caster (Fate/Grand Order)
- Faeries (TYPE-MOON)
- The Five Magicians (TYPE-MOON)
- Scathach (Valkyrie Crusade)
Known Objects
- Avalon (TYPE-MOON)
- Eternity Magic: Fairy Heart (Fairy Tail)
Gallery
As the Goddess of Magic, Mystra (Dungeons & Dragons) can redefine its principles and how it affects the world.
Faced with impossible odds, Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail) pulls a never seen before armor that "breaks the rules of magic" and an "invincible" sword.
Planeswalkers (Magic: The Gathering) ascended mages on the way to transcendence.
(from left to right) Chandra Nalaar, Liliana Vess and Jace Beleren, three examples of Planeswalkers (Magic: The Gathering).
The Scarlet Witch's (Marvel Comics) magical abilities defy limitations and understanding, puzzling even the Sorcerer Supreme himself.
After casting a complex spell, Jafar (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) becomes one of the most powerful sorcerers in all the realms, being unhindered by the rules of magic.
Lei Magnus (Slayers) is the only mage in slayers universe capable of breaking the rules of magic and casting the Blast Bomb spell without having to increase his magic capacity.
As the original source of the spell Thousand Thunderbolts, Ruin Iskar (UQ Holder) can bypass the necessary incantation and cast the spell instantly.
Scathach (Valkyrie Crusade) the goddess of magic and melee.