Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24516349-20140208174350/@comment-11437688-20140210132816

A battle between magicians is like the game of chess. Rather than focusing on sheer firepower, it focuses more on knowing what your opponent will do next while knowing the weakness of the opponent's spell then countering it with a magic symbol that will oppose it. Also as a magician, you should also expect the same from your opponents so it requires not just knowledge and background about history, religion, etc but also a sound mind and a sound body. Even refining one's own life force to mana requires certain disciplines (controlled breathing, heartbeat, etc). So all in all, magic (as far as I can see it, as of now) is more sophisticated than PCP.