How does magic work in TECC?
We do not wish to complicate the magic system by adding in a bunch of spells that your character has to learn or make it so that you can only know so many. Players have always been good at knowing what basic magic unicorns can know, and that they can't go around all being Twilight Sparkle, so we're letting you have the freedom and flexibility that most all other canons give you by allowing you to use magic at your own discretion.
The only thing magic affects on the stat system is that if you are a unicorn using magic to do a skill, you would instead refer to Intellect as your relevant stat.
The only thing magic affects on the stat system is that if you are a unicorn using magic to do a skill, you would instead refer to Intellect as your relevant stat.
What about dark magic?
As far as we're concerned, dark magic is bad mojo. If you want to use dark magic, more often than not, it's going to corrupt your brain. We try to ask that most unicorns stay away from it as it is not taught in the schools and all teachers (should) be strongly stressing the avoidance of it. Even Twilight Sparkle had trouble with dark magic.